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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (2) Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE The Adventure of the Six Napoleons 2 The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing-table. I must try and make something of it said he though I have no doubt that the first editions of the evening papers are out already with full details. It s like my luck You remember when the stand fell at Doncaster Well I was the only journalist in the stand and my journal the only one that had no account of it for I was too shaken to write it. And now I ll be too late with a murder done on my own doorstep. As we left the room we heard his pen travelling shrilly over the foolscap. The spat where the fragments of the bust had been found was only a few hundred yards away. For the first time our eyes rested upon this presentment of the great emperor which seemed to raise such frantic and destructive hatred in the mind of the unknown. It lay scattered in splintered shards upon the grass. Holmes picked up several of them and examined them carefully. I was convinced from his intent face and his purposeful manner that at last he was upon a clue. Well asked Lestrade. Holmes shrugged his shoulders. We have a long way to go yet said he. And yet--and yet--well we have some suggestive facts to act upon. The possession of this trifling bust was worth more in the eyes of this strange criminal than a human life. That is one point. Then there is the singular fact that he did not break it in the house or immediately outside the house if to break it was his sole object. He was rattled and bustled by meeting this other fellow. He hardly knew what he was doing. Well that s likely enough. But I wish to call your attention very particularly to the position of this house in the garden of which the bust was destroyed. Lestrade looked about him. It was an empty house and so he knew that he would not be disturbed in the garden. Yes but there is another empty house farther up the street which he must have passed before he came to this one. Why .
