Полиция и порядок. Артемьева О.А - 39 стр.

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“Well, not exactly,” he said. “I’m Mr. Healey, and my friend here is
Mr. O’Brien.”
“I just wondered,” I said, “because Mr. James is supposed to be away in the country with his old lady. I thought perhaps he’d
changed his plans.”
“Well, that’s strange,” Mr. Healey said, “because I saw a light flashing in the house not five minutes ago.”
“I’m going to look into this!” I said.
I went and rang at the front door, but no one came, so I went round the back. No answer there either. But I wasn’t satisfied. I
wanted to have a look inside and I tried my pocket knife to see it maybe the lock of the back door would give wav
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“You wont a better tool than that.” Mr. Healey said. He’d соme after me to see how I was trying to open the door. “Tim!” he
said – because Mr. O’Brien had come to us too. “See if you can find that thing in the car I use for taking off plugs.”
Mr. O’Brien brought me the tool and I opened the door.
“We shouldn’t put the lights on,” Mr. Healey said, when we were all in the hell.
So we want upstairs with nothing but the flash lamps to show the way. There was nobody we could see. But in the bedroom
there was something
Mr. Healey said. I ought to look into and that was a big tin box studding under the bed.
“That’s the sort of place people keep their jewels in,” Mr. Healey told me.
He gave me his tool again and I opened the box. There were diamond rings and pearl necklaces.
“We can’t leave these things the way they are”, Mr. Healey said, “Better hide them somewhere out of sight.”
“Put them in one of the grips we got in the car”, Mr. O’Brien said.
“And then put the grip where no housebreakers would see it,” Mr. Healey said.
Mr. Healey and Mr. О’Вrien found when they went to look they had three big grips in their car. So together with Mrs. James’s
jewels we put some silver cups we found in one of the rooms downstairs, and some silver forks and spoons, and a pile of other things
a housebreaker might take away. The trouble was to find some safe place to put the grips.
“If they weren’t so heavy I’d take them to the police station,” I said.
“Oh, they are heavy!” Mr. Healey said.
“You may borrow Mr. Healey’s car,” Mr. O’Brien said.
“But I’ve got to finish my beat,” I said.
“Then I can take them to the police station”, Mr. Healey said.
“It’s very lucky for me,” I said, as we were putting the gripe in the car, “meeting such gentlemen like you my first time on duty.”
“Why, it was very lucky for us!” Mr. Healey said.
“You do have young cops that haven’t thе sense to cooperate,”
Mr. O’Brien said.
Nine o’clock in the morning I was back reporting like the Sergeant had told me.
“All correct on beat?” the Sergeant asked.
“Everything is OK, Sergeant,” I said.
“You took a good look at Mr. James’s house?”
And I told him about what had happened and the way I used my head to put things right.
Then I noticed that the Sergeant looked strange. His face had changed to the colour of, a plum, be was shaking all over.
“Hot in here. Sergeant,” I said.
He didn’t seem to сomе at me on his feet, it was more as if somebody had turned the force of gravity on its side. And that
worked on me as well, for no legs of mine ever moved mе at such a rate and I found myself outside and half-way down the street.
Funny thing back at the railway station I came across the same gentleman I saw there the day before.
“What do you want me to tell you now?” he said.
“The place that’s farthest off from Ballydoggin,” I said.
“That would be Sydney, New South Wales,” the gentleman said.
(After R. C. Hutchinson)
Notes: 1. Matinee – дневное представление в театре.
2. Baliydoggin – вымышленное название города.
3. To give way – подаваться, не выдержать, сломаться.
1. Where did the events described in the story take place?
2. Why did the man have to change his job?
3. Why do you think the Police Sergeant didn’t ask the man about his education?
4. What questions did he ask him? Why?
5. Who lived at 48 O'Mailey Street?
6. Why did the young policeman decide to enter the house?
7. Why did he allow the man to take things belonging to Mr. James?
8. Why did the man fail in his new job?

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