THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Red-headed League (cont) 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 Red-headed League cont October 9 1890. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter. I cannot see that there is anything very funny cried our client flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. If you can do nothing better than laugh at me I can go elsewhere. No no cried Holmes shoving him back into the chair from which he had half risen. I really wouldn t miss your case for the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is if you will excuse my saying so something just a little funny about it. Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the door I was staggered sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called at the offices round but none of them seemed to know anything about it. Finally I went to the landlord who is an accountant living on the ground-floor and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. Well said I the gentleman at No. 4. What the red-headed man Yes. Oh said he his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready. He moved out yesterday. Where could I find him Oh at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes 17 King Edward Street near St. Paul s. I started off Mr. Holmes but when I got to that address it was a manufactory of artificial knee-caps and no one in it had ever heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross. And what did you do then asked Holmes. I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square and I took the advice of my assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite good .
