THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (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 ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 3 Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. His face was bent downward his shoulders bowed his lips compressed and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal lust for the chase and his mind was so absolutely concentrated upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell unheeded upon his ears or at the most only provoked a quick impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows and so by way of the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp marshy ground as is all that district and there were marks of many feet both upon the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on sometimes stop dead and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and I walked behind him the detective indifferent and contemptuous while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a definite end. The Boscombe Pool which is a little reed-girt sheet of water some fifty yards across is situated at the boundary between the Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner s dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods grew very thick and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass twenty paces across between the edge of the trees land the reeds which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the body had
