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儿童英语读物 神秘农场 Mystery Ranch Chapter 12 又见神秘人

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Early the next morning, the four Alden children climbed into Mr. Pond’s car. He had come to take them to Stony1 Creek2. They were going to see the sheriff, Mr. Bates.

Mr. Pond was very quiet. He was worried about these nice children. He liked them, even though he had only known3 them a short time. And he was worried about Jane Alden, too. He had known her for many years. He knew well enough that she had always been cross and hard to get along with. But he was very sorry for her. He didn’t want any of them to be upset by these three strange men.

They drove4 up in front of the courthouse in Stony Creek and Mr. Pond stopped the car.

“Come right in,” called Mr. Bates. “I’m glad you came. I don’t often have so much company.”

“Hello, Bates,” said Mr. Pond. “These are the Alden children.”

“I had already guessed that,” said Mr. Bates. He took his guests to a small back room and shut the door.

They all sat down.

“Well, what brings you here?” asked Mr. Bates.

Mr. Pond said, “We came to see you about police business. There is something going on in the Alden woods. It looks as if someone has been living in an old hut5 there.”

Mr. Bates didn’t look surprised. He just waited for Mr. Pond to go on.

“That isn’t all,” Mr. Pond said. “Three strange men tried to make Miss Jane Alden sell her ranch6. They told her it was no good. Say, Bates, you act as if you knew something that I don’t. What do you really think about all this?” Mr. Bates just sat and smiled.

“Maybe you won’t have to worry about those men any longer,” he said. “And I don’t think anyone will be staying in that hut, either. But I’ll wait and let Mr. Carter7 tell you all about it.”

“Mr. Carter? Who would that be?” asked Benny.

“He is a very important man,” Mr. Bates said, still smiling. “Here he comes now.”

A car stopped just behind Mr. Pond’s. A good-looking young man got out. He was very tall. He had soft brown hair. When he stood in the door, Jessie and Violet8 looked at him with their mouths open. Then they looked at one another.

Jessie could hardly talk. “Oh, Violet,” she whispered9, “Our Mystery Man!”

“Are you surprised?” asked Mr. Carter, laughing.

“We certainly are,” said Benny. “We thought you might be a bad man. That is, Henry thought so, anyway.”

“Benny!” Henry said, blushing10. “I didn’t really think that, Mr. Carter. I just thought the police should—I mean—well, you were a stranger, and—”

“That’s all right, Henry,” said the Mystery Man, smiling again. “That was a smart thing to think.”

“But if you’re not a bad man, who are you?” asked Benny.

“Well, I’ve been working for you, but you didn’t know it.”

“Working for us?” asked Benny. “You don’t look like a ranch hand.”

“There are many ways to work,” Mr. Carter said. “And one of them is looking for uranium.”

“Uranium!” Jessie cried. She had finally found her voice again.

“Yes,” said Mr. Carter. “My job is to look for uranium. I found a field of it right on your ranch.”

“Do you mean that all of that Indian dust is really uranium?” asked Violet.

“It certainly is,” Mr. Carter answered, looking at all the surprised faces around him.

“But why were you looking there?” asked Violet. “And who are those three tough men?”

Mr. Carter answered slowly, “I work for a man you may have heard of. Mr. Alden of Greenfield.”

“Grandfather!” the children cried.

“Yes. Mr. Alden hired me to look for uranium for him. There is a lot of it in this part of the country. But when I found it on your ranch, I also found that someone had been there first.”

“That must be those three men!” Henry said.

“Yes. They were looking for uranium, too. But they are not honest. When they found a place that had uranium, they tried to buy the land cheap. They didn’t tell people what they had found.”

“That’s just what they tried to do to us,” Violet said.

“Yes,” Mr. Carter went on, “but Mr. Bates and I caught up with them. You won’t be bothered by them again.”

“Are they the ones who stayed in that hut on our ranch?” asked Jessie.

“Yes. But I had an eye on them. They couldn’t have hurt you,” Mr. Carter said.

Henry spoke11 slowly, “This means12 that the ranch is worth a lot of money, doesn’t it?”

“It certainly does,” said Mr. Carter.

“Wait till I tell Aunt Jane!” shouted Benny.

“Can we tell people?” asked Henry.

“I suppose so,” said Mr. Carter. “It is no longer a secret. I’m afraid your ranch will not be quiet much longer. Your place will soon be full of strangers. Maybe some of them will try to take rocks away from your uranium fields.” He looked worried for the first time since he had come in the door.

“What can we do?” asked Jessie. “It would be terrible to upset Aunt Jane just when she is getting better.”

“Can you help them, Mr. Pond?” asked Mr. Carter.

“No, I’m afraid not,” said Mr. Pond. “It is too big a job for me. I think the children need a smarter man than I am. And they need someone with enough money to dig13 a mine.”

Henry said, “I think I know the very man.”

The four children shouted together, “Grandfather!”


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1 stony qu1wX     
adj.石头的,多石头的,冷酷的,无情的
参考例句:
  • The ground is too dry and stony.这块地太干,而且布满了石头。
  • He listened to her story with a stony expression.他带着冷漠的表情听她讲经历。
2 creek 3orzL     
n.小溪,小河,小湾
参考例句:
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
3 known hpKzdc     
adj.大家知道的;知名的,已知的
参考例句:
  • He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
  • He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。
4 drove brAxi     
vbl.驾驶,drive的过去式;n.畜群
参考例句:
  • He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.他以每小时60英里的速度开车。
  • They drove foreign goods out of the market.他们把外国货驱逐出市场。
5 hut ablxt     
n.棚子;简陋的小房子
参考例句:
  • The hut is in the midst of the forest.小屋在森林深处。
  • The poor old man lived in a little wooden hut.那个贫穷的老人住在一间小木屋内。
6 ranch dAUzk     
n.大牧场,大农场
参考例句:
  • He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
  • The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
7 carter carter     
n.运货马车夫,赶大车的人;卡车司机
参考例句:
  • Although fatigue shows readily on Carter, he bounces back quickly. 卡特虽然容易显出疲劳的样子,但他恢复得很快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 violet 8h3wm     
adj.紫色的;n.紫罗兰
参考例句:
  • She likes to wear violet dresses.他喜欢穿紫色的衣服。
  • Violet is the color of wisdom,peace and strength.紫色是智慧的,和平的和力量的颜色。
9 whispered ac3eda029cd72fefda0d32abc42aa001     
adj.耳语的,低语的v.低声说( whisper的过去式和过去分词 );私语;小声说;私下说
参考例句:
  • She sidled up to me and whispered something in my ear. 她悄悄走上前来,对我耳语了几句。
  • His ill luck has been whispered about the neighborhood. 他的不幸遭遇已在邻居中传开。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 blushing blushing     
adj.脸红的 动词blush的现在分词形式
参考例句:
  • Shame-faced and blushing, the women took their leave and rowed off again. 几个女人羞红着脸告辞出来,摇开靠在岸边上的小船。
  • Jennie came forward,extending her hand and blushing. 珍妮走上前,伸出她的手,面色赤红。
11 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
12 means 9oXzBX     
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
参考例句:
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
13 dig CvCxX     
v.挖(洞,沟等);掘
参考例句:
  • It is difficult to dig the ground when it is frozen.地面冻住了就不易挖掘。
  • In those days we often went to dig for wild vegetables.那时候我们常常出去挖野菜。
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