The Secret Adversary AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 21 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 . | The Secret Adversary AGATHA CHRISTIE CHAPTER 21 Tommy Makes a Discovery For a moment or two they stood staring at each other stupidly dazed with the shock. Somehow inexplicably Mr. Brown had forestalled them. Tommy accepted defeat quietly. Not so Julius. How in tarnation did he get ahead of us That s what beats me he ended up. Tommy shook his head and said dully It accounts for the stitches being new. We might have guessed. Never mind the darned stitches. How did he get ahead of us We hustled all we knew. It s downright impossible for anyone to get here quicker than we did. And anyway how did he know Do you reckon there was a dictaphone in Jane s room I guess there must have been. But Tommy s common sense pointed out objections. No one could have known beforehand that she was going to be in that house-much less that particular room. That s so admitted Julius. Then one of the nurses was a crook and listened at the door. How s that I don t see that it matters anyway said Tommy wearily. He may have found out some months ago and removed the papers then No by Jove that won t wash They d have been published at once. Sure thing they would No some one s got ahead of us to-day by an hour or so. But how they did it gets my goat. I wish that chap Peel Edgerton had been with us said Tommy thoughtfully. Why Julius stared. The mischief was done when we came. Yes Tommy hesitated. He could not explain his own feeling--the illogical idea that the . s presence would somehow have averted the catastrophe. He reverted to his former point of view. It s no good arguing about how it was done. The game s up. We ve failed. There s only one thing for me to do. What s that Get back to London as soon as possible. Mr. Carter must be warned. It s only a matter of hours now before the blow falls. But at any rate he ought to know the worst. The duty was an unpleasant one but Tommy had no intention of shirking it. He must report his failure to Mr. Carter. After that his work was done. He took .
