THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Empty House (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 CONAN DOYLE The Adventure of the Empty House 3 It was indeed no longer the profile but the back which was turned towards us. Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a less active intelligence than his own. Of course it has moved said he. Am I such a farcical bungler Watson that I should erect an obvious dummy and expect that some of the sharpest men in Europe would be deceived by it We have been in this room two hours and Mrs. Hudson has made some change in that figure eight times or once in every quarter of an hour. She works it from the front so that her shadow may never be seen. Ah He drew in his breath with a shrill excited intake. In the dim light I saw his head thrown forward his whole attitude rigid with attention. Outside the street was absolutely deserted. Those two men might still be crouching in the doorway but I could no longer see them. All was still and dark save only that brilliant yellow screen in front of us with the black figure outlined upon its centre. Again in the utter silence I heard that thin sibilant note which spoke of intense suppressed excitement. An instant later he pulled me back into the blackest corner of the room and I felt his warning hand upon my lips. The fingers which clutched me were quivering. Never had I known my friend more moved and yet the dark street still stretched lonely and motionless before us. But suddenly I was aware of that which his keener senses had already distinguished. A low stealthy sound came to my ears not from the direction of Baker Street but from the back of the very house in which we lay concealed. A door opened and shut. An instant later steps crept down the passage--steps which were meant to be silent but which reverberated harshly through the empty house. Holmes crouched back against the wall and I did the same my hand closing upon the handle of my revolver. Peering through the gloom I saw the vague outline of a .
