【英文文学】Locked Doors
42页1、【英文文学】Locked DoorsChapter I“You promised,” I reminded Mr. Patton, “to play with cards on the table.”“My dear young lady,” he replied, “I have no cards! I suspect a game, thats all.”“Thendo you need me?”The detective bent forward, his arms on his desk, and looked me over carefully.“What sort of shape are you in? Tired?”“No.”“Nervous?”“Not enough to hurt.”“I want you to take another case, following a nurse who has gone to pieces,” he said, selecting his words carefully. “I dont want to tell you a
2、lotI want you to go in with a fresh mind. It promises to be an extraordinary case.”“How long was the other nurse there?”“Four days.”“She went to pieces in four days!”“Well, shes pretty much unstrung. The worst is, she hasnt any real reason. A family chooses to live in an unusual manner, because they like it, or perhaps theyre afraid of something. The girl was, thats sure. I had never seen her until this morning, a big, healthy-looking 2 young woman; but she came in looking back over her shoulder
3、 as if she expected a knife in her back. She said she was a nurse from St. Lukes and that shed been on a case for four days. Shed left that morning after about three hours sleep in that time, being locked in a room most of the time, and having little but crackers and milk for food. She thought it was a case for the police.”“Who is ill in the house? Who was her patient?”“There is no illness, I believe. The French governess had gone, and they wished the children competently cared for until they re
4、placed her. That was the reason given her when she went. Afterward shewell, she was puzzled.”“How are you going to get me there?”He gathered acquiescence from my question and smiled approval.“Good girl!” he said. “Never mind how Ill get you there. You are the most dependable woman I know.”“The most curious, perhaps?” I retorted. “Four days on the case, three hours sleep, locked in and yelling Police! Is it out of town?”“No, in the heart of the city, on Beauregard Square. Can you get some St. Luk
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