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儿童英语读物 The Mystery on the Train CHAPTER 9 Recovered Property

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The Aldens called a porter and got him to make up Annie’s room early so she could rest. “Stay here,” Violet said. “Your ankle hurts you and you’re very upset. Rest will do you good.”

“But what if the person who has my posters gets off the train while I’m sleeping?” Annie asked.

“You really can’t move fast enough to be much help,” Jessie pointed1 out. “We can, though. We’ll watch for you.”

“Leave it to us,” Benny said. “We’ll catch the thief very soon.”

Annie smiled at him and Violet realized her friend was feeling better.

“We’ll watch very carefully. If anyone gets off with a large package, we’ll call for help,” Henry said.

“What time does the train stop again?” Annie asked. Her voice already sounded sleepy.

“I have my timetable,” Henry said. “It stops in Salt Lake City at eleven-thirty-six p.m.”

“You won’t be able to stay awake that late,” Annie protested.

“We’ll wake up and then go back to sleep. Just like we did when you called us to help you last night,” Violet said.

Annie made a face. “I used an alarm clock. Anyway, that was very wrong of me.”

“We’d like to borrow your alarm clock,” Henry said. “You can sleep through till morning.”

Annie nodded and smiled. “You are very grown-up children. I feel like the youngest one here tonight.”

“We learned to take care of ourselves when we lived in our boxcar,” Violet explained. “Before our Grandfather found us and took us to live in Greenfield, we did everything for ourselves.”

The children went to bed early and Jessie set the alarm clock for eleven o’clock. “That will give us time to get up and dressed so we can watch the platform when we stop in Salt Lake City at eleven-thirty-six,” Jessie said.

The alarm went off at exactly eleven o’clock. Jessie and Violet woke up easily and knocked on the door of the boys’ room. They all pulled their clothes over their pajamas2 and got ready to station themselves by the doors of the train for the second night in a row.

“At least tonight we know a little bit more than we did,” Henry said. “I knew Annie wasn’t being quite truthful3 but I didn’t know she’d staged the whole thing.”

“You believe her now, don’t you?” Violet asked.

“Yes, I do,” Henry said. “Someone really stole the posters this time. I’m just not sure who that someone could be.”

“It could be Mr. Reeves,” Jessie said. “He is certainly interested in posters.”

“It could be Vincent,” Violet said. “He took money from Annie’s aunt and he . . . ”

“It could be that guy with the sunglasses and the beard,” Benny said. “He was talking to Vincent . . . ”

“It could be someone we don’t know at all,” Henry said. “But whoever it is would have a big package. Annie says folding the posters would lower their worth.”

“So we’ll keep a sharp eye out for large packages,” Jessie said.

The children nodded and stood waiting until the train pulled to a full halt.

They leaned out the door and looked up and down the platform. There were too many people moving around to be sure of seeing everything. “We’ll have to get out,” Henry said.

They jumped off the train and began moving up and down the platform, looking from one group of people to another. Suddenly, Jessie called, “I see the bearded man!”

“And he’s holding a big rolled package,” Violet said.

“Vincent is helping4 him,” Benny shouted. He began to run. At that moment, Vincent turned and went back into the train. The bearded man walked quickly away.

“Hurry, let’s catch him.” Jessie darted5 forward and caught hold of the man’s coat sleeve. She said, “Wait a minute, please. We want to talk to you.”

“Go away,” the man said.

Benny grabbed6 the back of his coat and Henry and Jessie tried to get hold of the rolled package.

The bearded man looked around at the crowd that was beginning to gather. He jerked7 the package away from the Alden children and threw it on the platform. Henry, Jessie, and Violet all ran for the package. Only Benny held onto the coattail and as the man pulled away from him, Benny was left holding a piece of the coat.

When the others came back with the package, Benny said, “He got away.”

“Never mind,” Jessie said. She bent8 down and untied9 the string around the rolled package. Unwrapping the paper carefully, she let the posters fall flat. “The important thing is we’ve got Annie’s posters back.”

“But the bearded man got away and we don’t know who he was or how he even knew the posters were on the train,” Benny said regretfully.

“Where is Vincent?” Jessie asked.

“He went back on the train,” Henry said. “I am not even sure he saw us.”

“We can talk about it in the morning,” Violet said. “Let’s get back to bed now before Aunt Jane misses us.”

But when they got back to their compartment10, Aunt Jane was sitting up on the side of her bed waiting for them. She asked, “Where have you been? I was beginning to worry.”

“We caught the man who stole some posters,” Benny said. Then he corrected himself. “We caught the posters but the man got away.”

“What happened?” Aunt Jane asked.

“Annie has some valuable movie posters,” Violet answered. “She said they were stolen and they weren’t. Then later they were stolen and now we’ve recovered them.”

Aunt Jane smiled and said, “It sounds complicated. Maybe you can explain in the morning.”

“Tomorrow morning, we’ll tell you the whole story. It is complicated,” Henry said.

The next morning, the Alden children told Aunt Jane all about their adventures with Annie and the posters. When Henry got to the part about following Vincent, she nodded. “I knew something was going on but I thought it was some sort of a game you were playing.”

“No, it wasn’t a game,” Henry explained. Then he added, “But I still want to talk to Vincent. I think it is odd he talked so often to the bearded man. Maybe he knows more than he is telling.”

“I want to talk to Annie,” Aunt Jane said.

“Do you think we should wake her and tell her we’ve recovered the posters?” Violet asked.

“Let her sleep as long as she can,” Aunt Jane said. “Her ankle will heal faster if she is resting.”

They agreed that Annie would be very happy to have her posters back. Then Jessie said, “But there is still so much we don’t know.”

“Yes,” Violet said. “How could the bearded man know that she had the posters? Do you think Annie’s aunt could have anything to do with it?”

“It doesn’t seem like that could happen,” Jessie said. “On the other hand, how did Mr. Reeves know about the old posters coming into San Francisco?”

“We can probably find out more when Annie wakes up,” Benny said.


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1 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的,直截了当的
参考例句:
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
2 pajamas XmvzDN     
n.睡衣裤
参考例句:
  • At bedtime,I take off my clothes and put on my pajamas.睡觉时,我脱去衣服,换上睡衣。
  • He was wearing striped pajamas.他穿着带条纹的睡衣裤。
3 truthful OmpwN     
adj.真实的,说实话的,诚实的
参考例句:
  • You can count on him for a truthful report of the accident.你放心,他会对事故作出如实的报告的。
  • I don't think you are being entirely truthful.我认为你并没全讲真话。
4 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
5 darted d83f9716cd75da6af48046d29f4dd248     
v.投掷,投射( dart的过去式和过去分词 );向前冲,飞奔
参考例句:
  • The lizard darted out its tongue at the insect. 蜥蜴伸出舌头去吃小昆虫。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The old man was displeased and darted an angry look at me. 老人不高兴了,瞪了我一眼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 grabbed grabbed     
v.抢先,抢占( grab的过去式和过去分词 );(尤指匆忙地)取;攫取;(尤指自私、贪婪地)捞取
参考例句:
  • He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被两个男人紧抓双臂押出大厅。
  • She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。
7 jerked 0d2c5c8d25148069397b82ae34bff230     
猛拉( jerk的过去式和过去分词 ); (使…)猝然一动[颤动]
参考例句:
  • He jerked the phone away from her. 他猛然一下从她那儿把电话抢走。
  • When she heard the news, she jerked upright in surprise. 当听到这则消息时,她惊讶得跳了起来。
8 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
9 untied d4a1dd1a28503840144e8098dbf9e40f     
松开,解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 ); 解除,使自由; 解决
参考例句:
  • Once untied, we common people are able to conquer nature, too. 只要团结起来,我们老百姓也能移山倒海。
  • He untied the ropes. 他解开了绳子。
10 compartment dOFz6     
n.卧车包房,隔间;分隔的空间
参考例句:
  • We were glad to have the whole compartment to ourselves.真高兴,整个客车隔间由我们独享。
  • The batteries are safely enclosed in a watertight compartment.电池被安全地置于一个防水的隔间里。
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