JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 28 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 28 Cyrus Harding stood still without saying a word. His companions searched in the darkness on the wall in case the wind should have moved the ladder and on the ground thinking that it might have fallen down. But the ladder had quite disappeared. As to ascertaining if a squall had blown it on the landing-place half way up that was impossible in the dark. If it is a joke cried Pencroft it is a very stupid one To come home and find no staircase to go up to your room by--that s nothing for weary men to laugh at. Neb could do nothing but cry out Oh oh oh I begin to think that very curious things happen in Lincoln Island said Pencroft. Curious replied Gideon Spilett not at all Pencroft nothing can be more natural. Some one has come during our absence taken possession of our dwelling and drawn up the ladder. Some one cried the sailor. But who Who but the hunter who fired the bullet replied the reporter. Well if there is any one up there replied Pencroft who began to lose patience I will give them a hail and they must answer. And in a stentorian voice the sailor gave a prolonged Halloo which was echoed again and again from the cliff and rocks. The settlers listened and they thought they heard a sort of chuckling laugh of which they could not guess the origin. But no voice replied to Pencroft who in vain repeated his vigorous shouts. There was something indeed in this to astonish the most apathetic of men and the settlers were not men of that description. In their situation every incident had its importance and certainly during the seven months which they had spent on the island they had not before met with anything of so surprising a character. Be that as it may forgetting their fatigue in the singularity of the event they remained below Granite House not knowing what to think not knowing what to do questioning each other without any hope of a satisfactory reply every one starting some supposition each more unlikely than the last.