unit3 who is the man_百度文库
两大类热门资源免费畅读
续费一年阅读会员，立省24元！
文档贡献者
评价文档：
暂无相关推荐文档
unit3 who is the man
陕​旅​新​版​六​年​级​英​语​下​u​n​i​t​3
把文档贴到Blog、BBS或个人站等：
普通尺寸(450*500pix)
较大尺寸(630*500pix)
大小：369.00KB
登录百度文库，专享文档复制特权，财富值每天免费拿！
你可能喜欢句型转换1.Who is the man putting food out for?(改为陈述句,用his customers) 2.He is pouring te tea into the glass.(名词改为复数） 3.They are waiting for (the tea to be ready.) (对括号部分提问）4.He is having a cup of tea.(全部改为复数形式,并将hav_百度作业帮
句型转换1.Who is the man putting food out for?(改为陈述句,用his customers) 2.He is pouring te tea into the glass.(名词改为复数） 3.They are waiting for (the tea to be ready.) (对括号部分提问）4.He is having a cup of tea.(全部改为复数形式,并将hav
1.Who is the man putting food out for?(改为陈述句,用his customers) 2.He is pouring te tea into the glass.(名词改为复数） 3.They are waiting for (the tea to be ready.) (对括号部分提问）4.He is having a cup of tea.(全部改为复数形式,并将having替换） 5.He is putting the tea leaves into the teapot.(改为反义句）
1.The man is putting food out for his customers.2.He is pouring the tea into the glassess.3.What are they waiting for?4.They are drinking cups of tea.5.He is taking the tea leaves out of the teapot.
1. The man is putting food out for his customers.2. He is pouring the tea into the glasses.3. What are they waiting for?4. They are drinking some cups of tea.5. He is putting the tea leaves into the teapot, isn't he?
您可能关注的推广新浪广告共享计划>
广告共享计划
The&Man&Who&Escaped&（逃亡者）（文本+MP3）
伦敦的新苏格兰场
Edward Coke used to be an
army officer, but he is in prison now. Every day is exactly the
same for him.
It is winter now and all
the other men get up at six, when it is still cold and dark. They
have breakfast at six thirty. Work begins at seven thirty. Some of
the men work in the prison factory, where they make mailbags, but
Coke often works in the fields outside.
The men have lunch at
twelve. Lunch lasts an hour and then the men go back to work again.
Dinner is at six. Coke usually goes to the prison library after
dinner and reads until 9.30. The lights go out at ten. The day is
long, hard, and boring and every man has a lot of time to think.
They usually think about why they are there. Coke does. He always
thinks about two men.
One of the men is called
Eric Masters. He used to be an army officer, just like Coke. Coke
knows that Masters has a lot of money now. The second man's name is
Hugo. That is all Coke knows about him. Masters knows where and who
Hugo is, but Coke doesn't.
Every night Coke lies in
bed and thinks about Eric Masters and Hugo. There is another thing
he thinks about, too. Escaping. He wants to escape and find
Masters, and then the other man. Coke is in prison for something he
did not do.
It is six o'clock on a very
cold winter evening. All over England people are sitting down in
their living-rooms and are watching the news on television or are
listening to it on the radio. There is one very important piece of
news this evening. It is this:
"In the West of England
this evening, hundreds of policemen are looking for a man who
escaped from Princeville Prison early this morning. The man's name
is Edward Coke. He is 30 years old, six feet tall, and has black
hair and blue eyes. He is wearing a dark blue prison uniform. The
police do not think he can stay free very long. It is only a few
degrees above zero and it is snowing."
The radio is on in an
expensive pub in Soho, in the centre of London. Most of the people
there are not very interested in the news programme, but one man
is. His name is Eric Masters. He is about 45 and is wearing very
expensive clothes. He is looking very afraid of something. There is
another man standing next to him at the bar. Masters is asking him
a question.
"Did they say the man's
name was Coke?"
"Yes, that's right, Coke...
Edward Coke. Why? Do you know him?"
"Do you know
"No... no.... I don't know
him... I ... I just wanted to know the man's name, that's
In another part of London,
a young detective is standing in the office of his chief at
Scotland Yard. The young detective's name is Richard
"You knew Coke, didn't you,
"Yes, sir. I arrested him
four years ago."
Baxter's chief is nodding
his head. "Yes, I know that, Baxter. That's why I'm giving you this
order, now. Find Coke again! You must find him
immediately!"
It is 6.30 in the evening
now, and the wind is still blowing. It is getting colder. About ten
miles away from Princeville Prison a man is hiding in a field. The
wind is cutting through his thin prison uniform like a
A dog is barking somewhere
in the distance. Is it a police dog perhaps? The man in the field
does not know. There is only one idea in his mind at the moment: he
must find food and some warm clothes, but where?
Two hundred miles away in
London, Baxter's train is standing at platform 9 in Paddington
Station. Baxter is sitting in a comfortable compartment. There is
another man opposite him. Baxter doesn't know the man but he can
see he wants to talk. The man is holding a newspaper in his
"I see someone escaped from
Princeville Prison this morning."
"Oh, really?"
"Yes... Would you like to
read about it? It's all here in the paper."
"No, thank you."
The train is leaving the
station now. Baxter is looking out of the window. He can see a
thousand bright lights in the windows of pubs, cafes, houses and
flats. Everywhere people are sitting down to warm meals and hot
cups of tea. The world looks warm and comfortable. The man opposite
Baxter is still talking.
"The paper says the man was
a spy... he gave important military secrets away. I hope the police
catch him!"
"Yes, so do I."
NOTE: From this point
onwards, there is a synopsis at the beginning of every unit. The
synopsis tells in a few words what happened in the last
The story is also told in
the past tense from now on.
Synopsis: A young
detective, Richard Baxter, arrested Coke four years ago. Coke
escaped from prison because he wanted to find two men, Rick Masters
and someone called "Hugo". That was all Coke knew about the second
man. He knew Masters when they were officers in the army. Baxter,
the detective, left London on the same day Coke escaped. His job
was to catch Coke again.
Baxter got on the train at
5 o'clock. An hour later, at 6, he was asleep in the warm train
compartment. Coke was still in his hiding-place in a field, 100
miles away. The winter evening got darker and colder. The wind cut
through Coke's thin uniform like a knife. Coke was hungry and
tired, and his arms and legs were so cold that he could hardly feel
them. He knew he had to find food, warm clothing, and a warm place
somewhere. "I have to make a move! I can't just stay in this field
and die of the cold!" he thought.
Coke got up and began to
walk. "Where am I? Which direction am I walking in? Am I going back
towards the prison?" he asked himself. A few minutes later, the
moon came out and Coke could see better. He stopped and looked
around. Suddenly he saw a small light not far away. "What can it
be? It can't be a car. It isn't moving! It must be a house!" he
said to himself and began to walk towards it. The light got larger.
It was a house! He could see the form of the roof in the
Ten minutes later, he was
outside the house. He stopped and listened. "Strange!" he thought.
"I can't hear anything, not even a radio or a television, but there
must be someone in there! There's a light on." Just at that moment,
a thought struck him.
"This is probably the only
house around for miles! The police know I'm probably around here
and if they're anywhere, they're in that house, waiting
Coke didn't move. The wind
became colder. His feet and hands felt like ice in the snow. "I
have to take the chance! I have to! This is the only place I can
find warm clothes and food!" he thought.
Synopsis: Coke escaped from
prison and hid in a field. It was very cold and he knew that he had
to find warm clothes and food somewhere. He saw a house in the
country, isolated and far away from the nearest town. He stood
outside the house before going in. He could not understand why
there was no noise coming from it, not even the sound of a radio or
television.
Coke listened for several
seconds but he could not hear anything at all. And yet there was
smoke coming from the chimney and there was a light on in the front
room! "Why is it so quiet? Is it a trap? Are the police waiting for
me in there?" he asked himself. He went to the front door and
pushed it. To his surprise it was open! He went in very quietly. In
the front room there was a fire burning in the fireplace. The room
was clean, small and very warm. There was very little furniture in
it---only a couch and a table in front of the fire and two
old-fashioned chairs. There were also some photographs on the shelf
above the fire. They were yellow and old. There were also a few of
the same young man and also a woman in old-fashioned
wedding-clothes.
Suddenly Coke froze. There
was someone else in the room. He knew it. He could feel it! He
turned around quickly and, at the same time, put his hand in his
pocket. There was a small knife there. He saw an old woman. She had
a covered dish in her hands and there was a delicious smell of meat
and vegetables coming from it. She didn't look afraid. She didn't
look even surprised.
"I'm sorry," she said, and
put the dish down on the table. Coke could hardly believe his ears.
Here he was, a stranger in her house and yet she said she was
"I'm sorry," she said
again. "I didn't hear you. Did you knock? I'm deaf, you
&She pointed to her
ear, shook her head and said "deaf" a second time. "People often
come to the door and knock, but I don't hear them. I'm glad you
Coke stared at her for a
second and then finally found his voice, "I ... I'm sorry I just
stepped in."
He looked down at his
clothes. His prison uniform was so dirty that it was impossible to
tell what kind of uniform it was. Then he suddenly had an
"I'm a mechanic from a
garage in town. I came to repair a lorry somewhere out here but the
road was icy. I had an accident. I ... I fell off my
motorbike."
He had to say this several
times before she finally understood him. When she did, she gave him
some hot water and soap and afterwards some food. The only thing he
needed now was a change of clothes!
Synopsis: After Coke
escaped, he hid in a field all day. Then, when it got dark, he went
into a small house in the country. There was an old deaf lady in
the house. She gave him food. The young detective who arrested Coke
four years ago, Baxter, left London by train. Scotland Yard's
orders were: "Find Coke immediately!"
It was a cold and miserable
night. Only a few miles from the house Coke was in, two policemen
in a small village station could hear the wind outside. One of them
was a sergeant. The other was much younger.
"I wonder how Mrs Bentley
is?" the sergeant asked.
"Mrs Bentley? Oh, you mean
that old lady whose husband died a few years ago?"
"That's right. She's deaf,
you know, so she never listens to the radio or watches television.
In fact, she doesn't even read the papers."
"Oh?" the young policeman
said. He wondered why the sergeant wanted to tell him all this.
Then he found out.
"Why don't you go out to
her place and see if she's all right?"
"Who? Me? On a night like
"It's not far. Besides,
you've got your bike, haven't you?"
Baxter got off the train at
a small station. There was a detective waiting for him on the
platform. He shook Baxter's hand. "My name's Halls, Tom Halls.
Scotland Yard phoned us and told us to meet you here. There's a car
Baxter wasted very little
time on social formalities.
"Coke escaped more than 24
hours ago. I want to catch him before another 24 hours are
Halls looked at Baxter for
a few seconds before he answered.
"A lot of us wonder why
Scotland Yard is so interested in this fellow Coke. He isn't the
first one to escape. Another man did only about six months ago, but
Scotland Yard didn't send anyone to help us then." Baxter was
already half-way to the car before he said anything.
"Coke isn't an ordinary
prisoner. He's very special. Let's get going!"
The young policeman was
angry. He was on the road now. The wind was cold and blew snow into
his face. "That stupid sergeant!" he thought. "We must be one the
last stations in England that still uses bikes, and he sends me out
on a night like this!"
He had to get off the bike
and push it up a hill. It was the last hill between the station and
the old lady's house. When he got to the top of it he could see the
house down below, at the bottom of the hill. Just as he looked down
at it, he saw a light go on in one of the rooms upstairs. "Stupid!
That's what it is, sending me out on a night like this!" the
policeman said again. Then he got on his bike and began to go down
the hill very fast, towards the house.
Synopsis: Coke found food
in a small house in the country. Baxter arrived at a small station.
Another detective met him there and asked Baxter why Scotland Yard
was so interested in Coke. A sergeant in a police station not far
from the house Coke was in sent a young policeman to the house to
tell the old lady in it about Coke.
"You know, your clothes are
in a terrible state," the old lady said after the meal. You ruined
them when you had the accident!"
"That's all right. They're
just my work-clothes," Coke answered.
"My husband was just about
your size. A little heavier perhaps. All his clothes are upstairs.
They're no good to him. He died two years ago." She pointed up to
the room above them.
"Why don't you see if any
of his clothes fit you? You can bring them back
tomorrow."
"Nobody can be this lucky!"
Coke thought to himself. He went upstairs and turned the light on.
It was clear that the old lady was almost in another world. She
trusted everybody. He found a heavy jacket, a woolen shirt and some
trousers hanging in the room.
"What do you know about
Coke?" Baxter asked Halls. They were in the car now. "Very little,
I'm afraid. In fact, I don't think I know anything about him at
all. Wasn't he the fellow who was in that spy case about four years
"Yes, that's right. Coke
always said it wasn't him ... that it was someone else."
"That's what they all say.
But what's so special about him?"
"Coke was in Army
Intelligence. He knew important secrets. We could never understand
why he sold them. There wasn't a real motive. Some said he did it
for money. We couldn't prove it, but if he was a spy, he still
knows much. We could never find out who he sold the secrets to.
That's why we have to catch him before he makes contact with any of
his old friends!"
Coke put the clothes on as
quickly as he could. They were old and shabby, but at least they
were warm. When he came downstairs, the old lady was still in front
of the fire. She smiled when she looked at him. "You know, you look
just like my husband in those clothes, when he was much younger, of
"I can't thank you enough.
It's very kind of you to do all this for me." The old lady didn't
seem to hear him.
"Just like my husband," she
said again. Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Synopsis: After Coke
escaped from prison, he found a small house several miles away from
the nearest village. The old lady in the house gave him food and
clothes. She was deaf. A policeman came out to her house to tell
her to look out for Coke.
The deaf old lady didn't
hear the knock, but Coke did. His heart began to pound wildly.
Whoever it was obviously knew there was someone inside because
there was light on and smoke coming from the chimney. He had to
decide what to do, and quickly.
"There's someone at the
door," he said loudly, but the old lady did not
understand.
"There's someone at the
door," he said again, this time even more loudly than before. She
went out of the room and Coke quickly stepped back into the shadows
of the front room.
The old lady opened the
front door. Coke could see her quite clearly, but nothing else. He
listened carefully.
"Hello, Mrs Bentley. I'm
from the village police station. The sergeant sent me. I've got
something to tell you."
Then Coke saw the policeman
very clearly. Coke looked around quickly. There was a poker lying
in the fireplace. He almost went to get it and then
"No!" he thought. "That's
too dangerous. They already think I'm a spy. Whatever I have to do
I can do just as well with my fists." He stepped back and waited.
The old lady and the policeman came through the door into the
sitting-room. Coke was still behind the door, so the policeman
could not see him.
"Good evening officer. Can
I help you?" Coke said very loudly and clearly. The policeman
turned around the looked at Coke. He was very surprised. Then Coke
hit him as hard as he could in the stomach and he fell to the floor
heavily. The old lady screamed. The policeman tried to get up, but
fell back weakly. Coke ran out of the room.
The phone rang about five
minutes later at the local police headquarters. Halls answered
"What? Coke? Where?
Baxter stood up as soon as
he heard Coke's name. He quickly put his hat and coat on. Halls
listened carefully to the voice on the other end and quickly made a
few notes.
Then he put the phone down
and turned to Baxter.
"Well, we know where Coke
is now. A policeman almost caught him only five minutes
"What do you mean, 'he
almost caught him'? Did he catch him or didn't he?"
"No, he got away. He stole
the policeman's bike."
Synopsis: Coke found food
and clothes in a cottage several miles away from the nearest
village. However, a policeman came to tell the old lady in the
cottage to watch out for Coke. Coke knocked the policeman down and
stole his bike.
Baxter got into the car
first. Halls was right behind him. "You drive. You know the area
better than I do," Baxter said. They raced out of the town and into
the dark countryside.
"It's ridiculous," Halls
said. "Does he really think he's going to get away from us on a
"Coke isn't a fool," Baxter
answered. "He probably doesn't realize we already know what
happened in the old lady's house."
"You mean he doesn't know
that even village policemen have small two-way radios these
"That's right. He probably
thinks it's going to take that policeman at least half an hour to
get to the nearest phone. He thinks he can get pretty far in that
Ten minutes later, about
three miles from the old lady's house, Baxter suddenly saw someone
on the dark road ahead.
"Look! There!" he shouted.
"There's someone on a bike! And look! He's going to get
Halls saw the man quite
clearly, but only for a second. As soon as the man saw they were in
a police car, he dropped his bike and ran into the trees at the
side of the road.
"That's Coke!" Baxter
shouted. "He isn't going to get away this time!" Baxter jumped out
of the car even before Halls stopped it, and ran after Coke. Halls
jumped our, too. He didn't even switch off the
headlights.
All Coke's training as a
soldier helped him now. Baxter was just behind him when Coke
suddenly turned. Baxter tried to grab him but almost lost his
balance. Then Coke hit him on the chin as hard as he could. Baxter
fell to the ground heavily. At that moment, Halls jumped on Coke
from behind but Coke threw him over his back and against a tree,
and then ran back towards the ground again. There was a terrible
pain in his ribs. Coke saw the police car very clearly. The
headlights were still on, and one of the doors was open. Coke
jumped in.
It took Baxter several
seconds to realize where he was. At first, all he could feel was a
terrible pain in his jaw. Then he heard the sound of a car engine
starting. He looked up and saw Halls pointing to it. Suddenly
Baxter realized everything. Halls tried to run after the car but it
was too late. Coke was gone and so was their car!
Episode 10
Synopsis: When Coke saw
Halls in a police car, he jumped off his bike and ran into the
trees at the side of the road. Baxter and Halls ran after him. Coke
managed to get away from both of them and to steal their
Coke drove for about twenty
minutes. He felt nervous in the police car but he knew it was his
only chance.
"I wonder how that
policeman managed to contact police-headquarters so quickly?" He
asked himself. Then he remembered a newspaper article about the new
pocket radios all policemen had. They were small things which they
put in their pockets.
"Of course! That's it!" he
thought. Then he wondered if detectives like Halls and Baxter also
had them. He knew they probably did not, because they already had
radios in their cars. Suddenly, however, something on the road
ahead interrupted his thoughts. Two police cars were there, side by
side, blocking the road. Nothing could get by them!
The two policemen at the
roadblock were bored. It was a lonely spot between two hills and
there was very little traffic.
"Could you give me a light,
Tom?" one of them said. It was his tenth cigarette that night. Just
then, they both looked up and saw a car coming towards
"It's a police car," the
other one said. "Perhaps they're bringing us some hot coffee, or
something to eat."
They both watched the car
as it came closer. It was a long, straight road and the car was
still a good distance away.
"Isn't it going to
"It doesn't look like
"Shall we stop it? Our
orders are to stop every car."
Just then, they heard the
two-tone sound of the horn. It was obvious that whoever was in the
car was in a great hurry.
The two policemen hesitated
for a second. Then one of them turned to the other, "Would you move
the car out of the way, Bob, or shall I?
"But our orders were to
"Look! That's a police car,
can't you see? You don't think Coke's going to come through here in
a police car, do you?"
The other policeman got
into the car and moved
the gap was just wide
enough for another car to get through now.
"Aren't you going to move
back some more?" the other shouted.
Before he could do so. Coke
shot through the narrow gap and raced down the road in the
direction of London.
Episode 11
Synopsis: Halls and Baxter
tried to catch Coke when they saw him on a road in the countryside
late at night. Coke, however, got away from them and stole their
car. He also got through a police roadblock.
"How much farther is it to
the nearest village?" Baxter asked.
He and Halls were in the
middle of the countryside. The night was very dark and there was no
traffic on the roads. They could not see a house or even a public
phone box anywhere.
"It must be on the other
side of that hill," Halls answered.
"I hope so! We've been
walking for twenty minutes now! When we started, you said it was
only ten minutes away!" Baxter said angrily. He was tired and his
jaw hurt. He could already imagine the Chief Inspector's comments
at their next interview. The Chief Inspector was a very sarcastic
man. "Well, Baxter, perhaps you would explain all this to me. It
seems you had a car when you saw Coke and that he had it after he
saw you. Very interesting. How shall we explain all this to the
papers? Shall we say something like 'The police are always ready to
Coke turned off the main
road. He wanted to get rid of the police car as soon as possible.
The army often used the area for maneuvers and Coke remembered it
from the days when he was a soldier. He knew there was a village
down a side road. Just before he got to it, he stopped and left the
car in a field. Then he walked into the village itself. He wanted
something and he was sure he could find it here.
In his apartment in London,
a well-dressed man named Eric Masters turned on the radio and
listened. The news was still bad. Coke was still free, the
announcer said. Masters looked very frightened. He turned off the
radio suddenly and picked up the phone.
In a village almost 200
miles away, Coke found what he wanted.
"People in villages like
this always trust their neighbours. How lucky!" he thought when he
saw the motorbike.
It was in a garage at the
edge of the village. The garage was not even locked and there was a
leather motorcycle suit on a nail. There was also a pair of gloves
and a helmet. Everyone in the village was asleep. Coke worked
silently. He pushed the bike down the road. When he was far enough
away from the village be started the engine. It roared loudly. He
got on the motorbike and raced towards London.
Episode 12
Synopsis: Coke knew it was
dangerous to stay in the police car, so he stole a motorbike from a
small village.
Eric Masters had the face
of a man who lived comfortably and ate well. It was the face of a
man who usually did not worry about the future. All this was gone
now. He was very worried indeed when he picked up the phone and
dialed nervously. At first, nobody answered at the other end. The
phone rang at least twelve times but Masters did not hang up.
Finally a sleepy voice answered angrily, "Who is it? What the devil
do you want at this hour?"
It was a man's voice, and
it was educated and smooth, but it had a cruel, cold
"Is that you, Hugo? This is
Eric," Masters said quickly.
The man at the other end
became even angrier.
"And why are you ringing at
this hour? I've been in bed for an hour!"
"But, haven't you heard the
news, Hugo? Coke's still free!"
"Of course I've heard. So
have my friends," the man answered coldly.
"I can't sleep. I've been
thinking about Coke all evening!"
"Perhaps you'd better take
a sleeping pill!"
Masters almost screamed the
next question into the phone. "What are you going to do, Hugo? What
are you going to do?'
The man at the other end
answered just as coldly and as calmly as before. "Do? We're going
to kill Coke! That's what we're going to do. That is, if he is
stupid enough to come to London!"
The motorbike was fast but
the roads were icy. Coke drove dangerously. He knew he had to. He
had very little time.
"I'd better keep to the
side roads," he thought, but he didn't because the main road was
much faster, and he had very little time. A police car went by in
the opposite direction. He began to feel a little safer. Then,
around 2 o'clock in the morning, he suddenly saw lights in his
mirror. They were the headlights of another police car, and this
time it was just behind him. It came closer and closer and then
suddenly speeded up. For several seconds, Coke and the car raced
along side by side. Coke looked up. The two policemen in the car
were looking at him but they could not see his face clearly. He was
wearing a helmet and goggles. Coke raised his hand and waved
casually. The driver was already looking at the road again, but the
other still had his eyes on Coke. Then, the car speeded up again.
In a few seconds it was far ahead of them. Coke raced towards
London. He knew exactly where he wanted to go
Episode 13
Synopsis: Masters, a man
who knew Coke before Coke went to prison, phoned a man called Hugo.
Masters was terribly worried. For some reason, he was very afraid
Coke reached London just
before 6. The huge city was just beginning to wake up but the
streets were still dark. He drove to a block of small flats not far
from the river in the southeast. There was a light on in one of the
ground floor flats. It was shining in the kitchen. He went to the
window and tapped softly. He was still standing at the window when
the back door opened. When he looked up, a woman was standing
there. He hesitated when he saw her and almost went back into the
shadows again, but she looked at him calmly. "Come in, Ted. I've
been expecting you," she said very softly. He walked towards her
and stood in the open doorway.
"I haven't got any right to
ask for your help," he said after a pause.
"But there's nobody else
you can go to, is there? You'd better come in," she answered
Baxter caught a very early
train to London. When he got to Scotland Yard, the Chief Inspector
was waiting for him. When Baxter went into his office, he was
sitting at his desk and looking at a photograph. The Inspector
looked at Baxter quickly, then back at the photo. "Perhaps it was a
good thing you didn't catch Coke after all, " he said suddenly.
Baxter stared at him in surprise.
"What do you mean, sir? I
don't understand."
"I have a picture here of a
man who knew Coke in the army. He was also a witness at Coke's
trial. I've been interested in the man for some time now. Perhaps
we'll be able to find out more about him now that Coke's free," the
Inspector said, and gave Baxter the photograph.
"This is the man. Watch
him. Follow him everywhere!"
Baxter looked at the man in
the photo carefully. It was Eric Masters.
"You really shouldn't help
me, Kate. It's against the law," Coke said. He and the young woman
were sitting in her kitchen. He was eating breakfast hungrily. Kate
did not say anything.
"I mean, everybody thinks
I'm a spy," he went on.
"But I don't think so," she
finally said. Coke finished his breakfast silently. Then he said,
"You were the only person who ever believed I was innocent. That's
why I came to you. Who else will help me?"
"Help you to do what, Ted?"
Kate asked.
"Help me to find the real
spies," he answered slowly.
Episode 14
Synopsis: (Note: The
synopsis now uses all tenses previously introduced) Baxter caught
the train back to London early this morning. He is now in the Chief
Inspector's office. The Chief Inspector has just told him to follow
Masters everywhere. Meanwhile, Coke is hiding in Kate's
Kate was what the Americans
call "a cool character"; nothing seemed to surprise her very much.
She seemed ready for anything. Perhaps this was because she was an
actress. She played small parts in films and on television. Her
life was full of surprises. Just then she was not working at all.
Perhaps that was why she did not hesitate even for a second when
Coke said he wanted her help to find the real spies.
"All right," she said.
"I'll help you and I'll start right now. Wait here!"
"What do you mean? Where
are you going?" Coke asked.
"You'll find out when I
come back. I'll have to get some things now!"
Before Coke could ask her
anything more, she was gone.
Not very far away, Baxter
was still sitting in the Chief Inspector's Office. He was still
looking at Master's photograph. He looked up. "What's so
interesting about him? Why do you want me to follow him?" he
"A few days ago, quite by
accident we learned a few things about him. Coke might ... notice I
say 'might' ... be innocent after all. It's only a possibility. We
want to see what Masters does if Coke contacts him," the Chief
Inspector answered. Baxter was even more surprised now.
"I don't understand, sir?
What do you think Masters might do?" he said.
"Masters might try to kill
him if he's really afraid of him."
"But surely that's
dangerous, sir. I mean, if Coke is innocent, Masters might kill him
... and if he isn't innocent, we're letting him go free. After all,
Coke might kill Masters, or someone else!"
The Chief Inspector looked
very serious.
"That's a chance we'll have
to take, Baxter!" he said.
Time passed by slowly for
Coke that morning and afternoon. He slept a bit but then got up and
walked about the flat nervously. It was evening before Kate came
back. The winter sun was just setting when she came through the
door. She was carrying a large bundle and a lot of other
"Where have you been?
You've been gone for hours!" he said.
"Yes, I've been busy. Here.
Try these things on," she answered. She unwrapped the bundle
quickly and showed him a suit, shoes and a shirt. There was also a
coat with an expensive fur collar, the sort millionaires wear in
films. Coke put the clothes on unwillingly. "I'll have to change my
appearance more than this!" he said.
"Of course you will," she
answered. "And I've got just the things you'll need!"
Episode 15
Synopsis: Kate has come
back to the flat with some clothes for Coke and other things. The
Chief Inspector has told Baxter that Coke might be
First Kate dyed Coke's hair
grey. Then she used some theatrical makeup to give him a much older
face. Finally she put a pair of dark glasses on him, thrust a white
walking-stick into his hand and led him firmly to a full-length
mirror. Coke was surprised at how strong her grip was. He was even
more surprised when he saw himself. An old man stared back at
"And now," Kate said,
"You'll have to do far more than simply look like an old blind man.
You'll have to walk, talk and act like one, too!" For the next hour
she taught him exactly how to do that.
"You learn fast. We can go
now," she finally said.
"What do you mean 'we'? You
can't come with me. It might be dangerous," he objected. Kate was
already putting her coat on. Her answer was simple. "If you want my
help, you'll have to take me with you. Besides, things are just
beginning to get interesting!"
They were walking towards a
taxi-rank. There were usually several taxis parked there, waiting
for customers.
"We must look an odd
couple, you and I," Coke remarked.
"Don't worry about that. We
look so odd that nobody will guess who you are. Now just tell me
where we're going!"
"To a pub in Soho called
'The Great Rider'. Masters used to go there a lot," Coke
"You mean you think he's
one of the spies?"
"I don't know, but he
didn't tell the truth at the trial. Why else would he lie?" Coke
said. Just then they got to the taxi-rank. There were not any taxis
there. "We'll have to take a bus. Just remember that you're an old,
blind man. I'll help you get on and get off!" Kate said.
They got to Soho half an
hour later. The streets were brightly-lit. There were people, pubs,
restaurants, cinemas and strip-tease clubs everywhere. There was a
man in front of one of the clubs. Whenever someone passed by he
said: "The best show in London. Twenty beautiful girls. Step right
in!" He began to say that when he saw Coke but as soon as he
noticed Coke's dark glasses and white walking-stick, he closed his
mouth again. They walked on until Coke suddenly gripped Kate's arm
very hard. "This is the place. Take me in!" he said. There were two
doors. One was marked 'Public Bar' and the other 'Saloon Bar'.
"Which one?" she asked.
"The Saloon Bar!" he
whispered. They went into the crowded, noisy, smoke-filled room.
Several people stared at them curiously when they came
Episode 16
Synopsis: Kate has made
Coke up to look like an old blind man. They have just gone to a pub
in Soho. Coke thinks he might find Masters there.
Kate led Coke to a table
and then went to the bar to get their drinks.
"I've been here before. I
was here last week," she said when he came back. Coke was not
listening.
"Masters isn't here," he
"Surely you didn't expect
to walk in and find him, just like that?"
"No, I suppose
Time dragged. They sat
there for over an hour. More people came in, but Masters was not
among them. It was getting towards closing time when the barman
came to their table.
"May I have your empty
glasses?" he asked politely.
Coke touched him on his
sleeve. "Does a man named Eric Masters ever come in here?" he
asked. He did not notice the man standing at the bar who stared at
him in the mirror when he mentioned Masters' name.
The barman thought for a
second. "There's a man named Eric who comes in here a lot. He's a
military type. Is that who you mean?" he asked. Coke tried to sound
casual when he asked his next question.
"Has he been in here
today?" The barman nodded. "Yes," he answered. "He was in this
afternoon." "I don't suppose you know where I can find him now?"
Coke asked. "I'm afraid not. All I know about him is that he has an
antique shop somewhere near Red Lion Square," he
"Wasn't that a bit
dangerous?" Kate asked after the barman left.
"Yes, it was. But I haven't
got much time. I've got to find Masters before the police find me,"
he answered.
"I still don't understand
why you can't simply find his address in the telephone
"I've already looked. I
went through the phone book in your flat. Masters might have a
phone but his number isn't there."
The barman was shouting
"Last orders, please" when Coke and Kate left. Kate led him through
the crowded, bright streets. Most of the pubs were closing. It was
11.00, but the clubs and restaurants were still busy. When they got
to Shaftesbury Avenue, Kate called a taxi. Neither she nor Coke
noticed the man who was so close behind them in the crowd that he
heard Kate say "Red Lion Square, please" to the driver. They did
not see him get into a cab and follow them, either.
Episode 17
Synopsis: Coke has just
found out that Masters owns an antique shop somewhere near Red Lion
Square. He and Kate have gone there in a taxi. They do not know
they are being followed.
"Would you mind driving
round the Square once?" Kate asked the driver. Red Lion Square was
deserted. There were a number of dark side streets around
"It's obviously not on the
Square itself," Coke said.
They got out of the taxi,
paid the driver and started exploring.
There were antique shops on
several of the side streets but they all either had names like
"Connoisseur's Corner" which told them nothing about who owned the
shop, or other names like "Richards", and "Harvey Keen". Masters'
name was not among them.
Half an hour later they
were still looking. Kate kept glancing over her shoulder. She had
the uncomfortable feeling that someone was following them but she
could not see anybody.
"I don't like wandering
round the dark streets at this hour," she said. "Someone's bound to
notice us!" she went on. "I don't like doing it, either, but what
else can we do? We can't stop looking now. It might be our last
chance," Coke answered.
Suddenly something in the
window of a shop across the road caught his eye. The street was
very dark but the thing gleamed. It reflected the light of a
passing car. They crossed the street. The thing was an old military
sabre and it was in a window marked "Antique Weapons and Military
Antiques." There were old pistols, helmets and other swords in the
window. Coke became excited. "This must be it!" he said. Kate lit a
match so that they could see a bit better. There was no name on the
window but there was a phone number on the door. Coke copied it
It was around midnight when
the phone rang in Eric Masters' flat. The voice on the other end
was hard and cold.
"This is Hugo," it said.
"Why didn't you come to the Green Rider?"
"I'm sorry, Hugo. I ... I
don't enjoy going there any more. Not since Coke escaped. I ... I
thought it might be dangerous." Masters was nervous. He became even
more so when he heard what Hugo had to say. "There was an old blind
man in the pub. He had a young woman with him. He asked about you
and then went to your shop." Masters blinked in surprise. His voice
cracked slightly. "But I don't know anybody like that. What did
they want?"
"How do I know, you fool?
Just watch out for them, that's all!" Hugo said furiously and hung
up. Masters slept very badly that night.
Episode 18
Synopsis: Hugo has told
Masters an old blind man and a girl have been looking for him. Coke
and Kate have found what they think is Master's antique weapon
Coke did not sleep very
well that night, either. He lay awake thinking. He was on Kate's
sofa in the sitting-room. Slowly, however, he formed a plan in his
mind. He fell asleep around three in the morning.
When he woke up, Kate was
already in the kitchen making breakfast. "What are you going to do
now?" she asked while they were eating. Coke did not answer
immediately. He stared into his coffee. He knew he had to make one
thing clear to her. "Have you thought what'll happen to you if the
police find me here?" he suddenly asked. Kate looked at him coolly.
"We've been over this before, haven't we? Now answer my question,"
she answered.
"But they'll send you to
prison if they learn you've helped me!"
"I'll worry about that if
and when it happens."
"All right, I'll tell you.
But I warn you, if anything goes wrong, you might get hurt, badly
hurt!" he told her.
"Go on. I'm
listening."
"We're going to try to get
Masters to come here. That is, if the owner of that shop is
"Get him to come here?
Coke began to explain the
plan in his mind.
Eric Masters was cleaning
an antique pistol when the phone rang in his shop. He heard a young
woman's voice at the other end. "I believe you buy and sell antique
weapons," she said.
"Yes, that's right. I'm
particularly interested in old firearms."
"My father is, too. He has
a number of 17th-century pistols and he wants to sell some of them.
Would you be interested?"
"Certainly. If you bring
them to my shop, I'll look at them and give you a
"Well, unfortunately my
father's blind. It's very difficult for him to get about. Would you
mind coming to our place?" the woman answered.
Masters managed to answer
"Well... er ... my
assistant is out to lunch. I'll come over when he comes back. Is
that all right?" He noted down the address she gave him and hung
up. His hands were trembling slightly. "These must be the people
Hugo told me about," he thought. He reached into a drawer and took
out a pistol. This one was not an antique. It was a small, black,
nasty-looking automatic.
Episode 19
Synopsis: Kate has asked
Masters to come to her flat. She has told him that her father has
some antique pistols he wants to sell. Masters is suspicious and
has decided to take a small automatic pistol with him.
Masters rang Hugo just
before he left his shop.
"You told me about an old
blind man and a woman ... well, they've just phoned. They want me
to go to their place and look at some antique pistols," he said
nervously.
"Well, what do you want me
to do about it?" Hugo asked sarcastically. "You have a pistol,
haven't you?" he added.
Masters could not
understand why Hugo was so casual about it. He got into his white
Jaguar and drove off.
"Perhaps the old man really
does want me to look at his pistols," he thought. He patted the
pistol in his pocket. It made him feel safer.
He felt even safer when
Kate opened the door. She was slim, almost delicate-looking. "Good
afternoon," he said. "I'm Eric Masters. You rang my shop earlier."
She smiled. "I hope I haven't put you to any trouble. However, I'm
sure you'll decide we haven't made you come all this way for
nothing, " she said pleasantly, and led him into the sitting-room.
Masters glanced suspiciously at the old, blind man sitting on the
sofa. At first he seemed harmless enough, but there was something
familiar about the man's face that made Masters look more carefully
&&&&&&&&&&&&&
"I'll go and get the
pistols," Kate said. Masters stayed where he was, where he could
see everything and where nobody could come in behind him. The old,
blind man did not move. He simply sat there, his hands folded on
his white walking-stick, his eyes behind the dark glasses staring
blindly in front of him.
"Are you a collector, too?"
Masters asked. The old man simply nodded. The woman came out of the
bedroom with a large black case. "They're all in here," she said.
"If you come over here, to the table, we can look at them. My
father doesn't really want anyone else to have them, but I'm afraid
we have no choice. It's a question of money."
Masters kept his eyes
fastened on the old man's face as he walked towards the table. He
was halfway there when the old man raised his face slightly. The
sudden movement made Masters stop. The more he looked at that face,
the more suspicious he became. Suddenly it dawned on him. He stared
at both of them. They were both waiting expectantly for him to come
nearer. It was the old man's nose and lips that made Masters think
of Coke. He reached his pistol.
Episode 20
Synopsis: Masters has come
to Kate's flat. He has just looked at Coke carefully and realized
who he is. He has pulled out an automatic pistol.
When Masters pulled out the
automatic, Kate was standing between him and Coke. She could see
that he was almost hysterical and was probably going to
"It's you, Coke!" he burst
out and came nearer. Kate was standing in his way now and he put
out his hand to push her away.
Coke could hardly believe
his eyes. One moment Masters was pointing a pistol at him and the
next he was lying on the floor, gasping for breath. Kate had thrown
him over her shoulder. "I once played a policewoman in a film and I
had to learn some judo," she said rather casually and looked down
at Masters. Coke did not simp he gaped at her.
Then he picked up the automatic that Masters had dropped and gaped
Masters groaned. He, too,
could hardly believe what had happened. It all seemed incredible.
He shook his head. He decided that it was probably all a nightmare,
a horrible dream. He was sure that he was going to wake up at any
moment, safe in his own bed. He blinked his eyes several times,
hoping that Kate and Coke were somehow going to disappear. He
blinked again, but when he opened his eyes, they were still
"And now that you're here,
perhaps you wouldn't mind answering some questions," Coke said.
Masters groaned again.
"Questions? What
questions?" he mumbled. He was still in a daze.
"I want you to tell me
everything that happened that evening you sent me to Epping
Forest," Coke said in a low voice. Masters now realized that it was
not a dream. For a moment he thought he was going to be
"I don't know what you're
talking about," Masters answered.
"I think you do," Coke
"You can't make me tell you
anything!" Masters waited to see what Coke was going to do next. He
could not take his eyes off the automatic in Coke's
"I'll give you five seconds
to begin answering my questions. Then I'll shoot," was all Coke
"You couldn't shoot me like
that, in cold blood!"
"Couldn't I?" Coke
answered, and pulled back the safety-catch. The pistol was now
ready to fire. Then he began counting.
Episode 21
Synopsis: Kate has thrown
Masters over her shoulder. Coke has grabbed his pistol and has told
Masters he will kill him if he does not answer his questions. Coke
is going to count up to five before he shoots.
"But I know nothing!"
Masters protested. Coke had already raised the pistol and simply
said, "One!" Masters said nothing.
"Two!" Coke brought the
pistol nearer.
"You can't frighten me!"
Masters shouted.
"Three!" Masters saw Coke
had already taken aim.
"How can I tell you
something I don't know?" Masters demanded.
"Four!" Masters watched
Coke's finger beginning to press the trigger.
"All right, all right, I'll
tell you anything you want, but for God's sake, put that pistol
down!" Masters gasped.
Coke's mind went back to
the time, five years earlier, when both he and Masters had been
officers in the same Army Intelligence unit. Masters had been
Coke's superior. Several important military secrets had disappeared
and they were both trying to find out who had taken
One evening, Coke had gone,
on Masters' orders, to a lonely place in Epping Forest. Masters had
told him he would meet a possible informer there. While he was
waiting, three men had grabbed him from behind. They had poured
whisky all over him and down his throat and then hit him over the
When he came to, he was
back in his car, but it had crashed into a tree. The police had
already arrived. It appeared that Coke had got drunk and lost
control of his car. The police had found several files marked "Top
Secret" in his car. Coke swore he had never seen them before. The
police also found Coke had apparently deposited more than
￡2,000
bank account a few weeks before. Coke had known nothing of the
money. The bank said the cheques had arrived by post, drawn on a
Swiss bank, with Coke's countersignature. Nobody believed Coke's
story. It appeared he had sold secrets for money and was going to
do so again the night he had crashed. Masters denied he had ever
told Coke to go to Epping Forest. This is what Coke wanted to ask
questions about now.
Episode 22
Synopsis: Masters has
agreed to tell Coke everything.
For a moment Coke wanted to
pull the trigger. He had never killed anyone in cold blood, but he
found it difficult not to hate Masters. Because of him, he had lost
four years of his freedom. Because of him everybody thought he was
a spy. Somehow, Coke got a grip on himself. Perhaps it was because
he knew Masters was his only chance to prove he was innocent, and
he knew if he killed him, he would lose that chance.
"Let's start at the
beginning ... when you sent me to Epping Forest that night," Coke
said in a flat, cold voice.
"That was Hugo's idea. I
had nothing to do with it."
"And who is Hugo?" Coke
"He sells government
secrets to any foreign country that's interested. He made me give
him information. I didn't want to!"
"Made you? How did he make
you? " Coke asked.
Masters stared down at the
floor for several seconds before he answered.
"He knew things about me.
He said he would tell the police about them if I didn't help
"What sort of things?"
Again, Masters hesitated before answering.
"What does it matter? The
sort of things that would ruin any man if the police or anyone else
found out about them."
There were only a few more
things Coke wanted to know now. "Why did you involve me in all
"The police suspected
someone. We wanted to make them think you were the spy. We knew
they would if they found your dead body in a car after a crash with
all sorts of secrets in it."
"My dead body?"
"Hugo thought the crash
would kill you," Masters said.
"A pity it didn't. You'd
still be safe if I were dead!"
Masters swallowed and
stared at the floor.
"And why aren't you still
in the army? You'd be a lot more useful to Hugo if you were," Coke
"It became too dangerous.
Anyway, he still uses me."
"How?" Coke
"We hide microfilms of
secret documents in the antique weapons I send abroad. The people
we send them to pose as foreign collectors."
Coke had one last question.
It was the most important. "Where's Hugo now? Take me to
Episode 23
Synopsis: Masters has told
Coke that Hugo had planned what had happened to Coke in Epping
Forest. He thought Coke would be killed in the crash and that the
police would think he was the spy when they found the documents in
his car. Coke wanted Masters to take him to Hugo.
Masters told Coke that Hugo
owned a large garage in the North of London. Cars that had been
damaged were taken there to be repaired. It was also where the
secret documents Hugo sold were kept before they were micro-filmed
and sent abroad.
They got into Masters'
white Jaguar and drove there. Coke sat in front with Masters. Kate
sat behind. It was almost evening when they got to the garage. It
was at the end of a street and was surrounded by shops and small
houses. They parked at the end of the street. People were beginning
to close their shops and go home. The garage stayed open till six.
Coke sat and watched the lights go off. When the last one had been
turned off and the garage was completely dark, Coke turned to
Masters again.
"Now tell me exactly where
the documents are kept before they're sent off," he
At first Masters did not
answer. He had become a little braver again. Coke pressed the
pistol into his stomach.
"Because of you, I've been
kept in prison for four years. Because of you, my life has been
ruined. I'll kill you here and now if you don't answer!"
Masters looked at the
pistol and went pale.
"They're kept in Hugo's
office, in an ordinary file in his desk," he answered. "And the
microfilms?" Coke demanded. "They're kept there, too."
"Do you know if any
documents have been sent off recently?"
"Some were sent last week.
I know. I sent them myself, " Masters said. "And will there be any
there now, waiting to be sent off?" Again Masters hesitated. Coke
pressed the pistol even harder into his stomach. "I don't know.
There might be. Hugo told me he was going to give me some soon," he
Coke gave Kate the pistol.
She was still sitting behind Masters. "Keep him here until I get
back," he said.
"But what are you going to
do?" she asked.
"Break into that garage if
I can. Perhaps I can find proof that Hugo sells these things. If I
do, I'll phone the police."
"But what if you don't?
What if you're seen and caught before you can find anything at
all?" Kate asked. But Coke had already started walking toward the
dark garage. In the dark winter evening, it looked very much like a
Episode 24
Synopsis: Coke has gone to
Hugo's garage. He has told Kate he is going to try to find proof
that Hugo is a spy.
Once, a long time ago,
someone had told him that an Army training was useful in many ways.
Coke knew now that that was true. There was a drainpipe at the back
of the garage that led to the roof, and Coke managed to climb up
it. He had often done such things in the army.
There was a window in the
roof, or a sky-light, as it is called. It was closed but not
locked. Coke managed to get it open and then peered down into the
dark garage below. There was a lorry parked almost directly
underneath. He jumped down onto it. It was completely dark inside
the garage itself.
"Masters told me the
secrets were kept in the office, but where's the office?" he
wondered. Suddenly he heard a sound behind him, and realized he was
not alone in the garage.
Before he could turn
around, someone grabbed him from behind and someone else shone a
powerful light into his eyes. He was blinded. Then, there was an
explosion of pain in his head. He realized, just before he lost
consciousness, that what had happened in Epping Forest was
happening to him all over again.
When he came to again, he
was lying on the floor of the garage. It was at least an hour
later. He heard loud voices. When he opened his eyes, he saw Kate
tied to a chair. Four men were standing above him. One of them was
Masters, looking pale and frightened. He was listening to a short
blond man. Coke knew it must be Hugo himself. Hugo was
"I told you you were a fool
... and idiot! Do you believe me now?" he demanded. Masters tried
to say something but could not.
Hugo slapped him across the
"I asked you if you
believed me now?" he shouted.
"But ... but Hugo. Pl ...
please listen to me!" Masters stammered. "I told you someone had
phoned me and had asked me to look at some pistols! I told you it
was an old, blind man but you said there was nothing to worry
about!" Masters said.
"No, I didn't. I asked you
what you wanted me to do about it, you idiot!" Hugo roared.
Suddenly, one of the other men interrupted.
"What did you say we were
going to do with the girl and Coke?" he asked.
"I said we were going to
kill them! And I said we were going to do the job properly this
time!" Hugo answered.
Episode 25
Synopsis: When Coke broke
in, Hugo and two other men seized him and knocked him out. That was
at least an hour ago.
Hugo saw that Coke had come
to. Coke tried to get up but his hands were tied. His head hurt
terribly. Hugo looked at him like a shark inspecting his
"We would never have become
suspicious if you hadn't used Masters' white Jaguar," he said.
"When we saw it parked halfway up the road, we decided to wait and
see what would happen. Then, after we got you, we went out and got
your girl friend," he continued.
Coke knew he would never
have made such a stupid mistake if he had not been so tired. He had
not slept properly for days. He looked at Kate. "I'd never have got
you into all this if I hadn't asked you for help," he said to her.
He was trapped. It seemed there was nothing he could do and nobody
who could help him. Hugo took out a revolver. "You'd never have
bothered us again if I'd used this four years ago," he said. He
came closer to Coke and aimed the revolver carefully at his
Suddenly there was a
terrible crash as three policemen broke down the side door of the
garage. Hugo turned around and gaped. "No, Hugo. Look up here!" a
voice roared from the sky-light above. Suddenly everybody stopped.
Nobody made a move. Then Baxter dropped through the sky-light,
which was still open, and onto the lorry and finally to the ground.
Three more policemen followed him. Baxter walked over to
"Your revolver, please," he
said simply.
"I was only protecting my
property," Hugo answered. "This man broke in. That girl helped him.
Send him back to prison!" Baxter listened and smiled. "Certainly,
but only after you've given me that revolver," he replied. Hugo
handed it to him silently.
The policemen around Baxter
and at the door suddenly moved forward and seized Hugo, Masters and
the three men.
"We've followed you
that's why we're here now," Baxter told
Masters. Then he turned to Hugo and said, "And I've been up there
for half an hour. I've heard everything you've said. Also, I think
you'd have phoned us an hour ago, when Coke first broke in, if
you'd only wanted to protect your property!"
Before Hugo could protest,
he and the others were led away. Baxter helped Coke to his feet.
"What we know now already proves you were innocent," he said. Then
he untied Coke's hands. Coke was a free man again.
已投稿到：
以上网友发言只代表其个人观点，不代表新浪网的观点或立场。