Lesson 58

A spot of bother

一点儿小麻烦

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  • Lesson 58
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  • A spot of bother
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  • What did the old lady find when she got home?
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  • The old lady was glad to be back at the block of flats where she lived.
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  • Her shopping had tired her and her basket had grown heavier with every step of the way home.
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  • In the lift her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest;
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  • but when she got out at her own floor, both were forgotten in her sudden discovery that her front door was open.
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  • She was thinking that she must reprimand her home help the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence,
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  • when she remembered that she had gone shopping after the home help had left
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  • and she knew that she had turned both keys in their locks.
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  • She walked slowly into the hall and at once noticed that all the room doors were open,
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  • yet following her regular practice she had shut them before going out.
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  • Looking into the drawing room, she saw a scene of confusion over by her writing desk.
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  • It was as clear as daylight then that burglars had forced an entry during her absence.
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  • Her first impulse was to go round all the rooms looking for the thieves,
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  • but then she decided that at her age it might be more prudent to have someone with her,
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  • so she went to fetch the porter from his basement.
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  • By this time her legs were beginning to tremble,
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  • so she sat down and accepted a cup of very strong tea, while he telephoned the police.
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  • Then, her composure regained,
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  • she was ready to set off with the porter's assistance to search for any intruders who might still be lurking in her flat.
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  • They went through the rooms, being careful to touch nothing,
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  • as they did not want to hinder the police in their search for fingerprints.
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  • The chaos was inconceivable.
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  • She had lived in the flat for thirty years and was a veritable magpie at hoarding:
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  • and it seemed as though everything she possessed had been tossed out and turned over and over.
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  • At least sorting out the things she should have discarded years ago was now being made easier for her.
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  • Then a police inspector arrived with a constable and she told them of her discovery of the ransacked flat.
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  • The inspector began to look for fingerprints,
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  • while the constable checked that the front door locks had not been forced,
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  • thereby proving that the burglars had either used skeleton keys or entered over the balcony.
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  • There was no trace of fingerprints,
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  • but the inspector found a dirty red bundle that contained jewellery which the old lady said was not hers.
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  • So their entry into this flat was apparently not the burglars' first job that day and they must have been disturbed.
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  • The inspector then asked the old lady to try to check what was missing by the next day,
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  • and advised her not to stay alone in the flat for a few nights.
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  • The old lady thought he was a fussy creature,
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  • but since the porter agreed with him,
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  • she rang up her daughter and asked for her help in what she described as a little spot of bother.