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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 15-3

THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3) 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 3 Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed. When at last he descended it was with triumph in his eyes but he said nothing to either of us as to the result of his researches. For my own part I had followed step by step the methods by which he had traced the various windings of this complex case and though I could not yet perceive the goal which we would reach I understood clearly that Holmes expected this grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two remaining busts one of which I remembered was at Chiswick. No doubt the object of our journey was to catch him in the very act and I could not but admire the cunning with which my friend had inserted a wrong clue in the evening paper so as to give the fellow the idea that he could continue his scheme with impunity. I was not surprised when Holmes suggested that I should take my revolver with me. He had himself picked up the loaded hunting-crop which was his favourite weapon. A four-wheeler was at the door at eleven and in it we drove to a spot at the other side of Hammersmith Bridge. Here the cabman was directed to wait. A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses each standing in its own grounds. In the light of a street lamp we read Laburnum Villa upon the gate-post of one of them. The occupants had evidently retired to rest for all was dark save for a fanlight over the hall door which shed a single blurred circle on to the garden path. The wooden fence which separated the grounds from the road threw a dense black shadow upon the inner side and here it was that we crouched. I fear that you ll have a long wait Holmes whispered. We may thank our stars that it is not raining. I don t think we can even venture to smoke to pass the time. However it s a two to one chance that we get something to pay us for our trouble. It proved