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Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Episode 13

Episode 14

Episode 15

Episode 16

Episode 17

Episode 18

Episode 19

Episode 20

Episode 21

Episode 22

Episode 23

Episode 24

Episode 25

Episode 1 被害入狱

Edward Coke 原本是个军官，被害入狱，在过劳改生活。想逃。

Edward Coke was an army officer, but he is in prison 监狱 now. Every day is exactly 精确地；确切地 the same for him.

It is winter 冬 now and all the other men get up at 6, when it is still cold and dark. They have break‧fast 早餐 at 6:30. Work begins at 7:30. Some of the men work in the prison factory 工厂, where they make mail 邮件-bags 袋, but Coke often works in the fields outside.

The men have lunch 午餐 at 12. Lunch lasts an hour and then the men go back to work again. Dinner 正餐 is at 6. Coke usually goes to the prison 监狱 library 图书馆 after dinner and reads until 9:30. The lights go out at ten 十. The day is long, hard, and boring and every man has a lot of time to think. They usually think about why they are there. Coke does. He always thinks about two men.

One of the men is called Eric Smith. He was also an army officer, just like Coke. Coke knows that Smith has a lot of money now. The second man's name is Hugo. That is all Coke knows about him. Smith knows where and who Hugo is, but Coke doesn't.

Every night Coke lies in bed and thinks about Eric Smith and Hugo. There is another thing he thinks about, too. Escaping. He wants to escape 逃脱 and find Smith, and then the other man. Coke is in prison 3 for something he did not do.

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Episode 2 越狱了

晚间新闻在报道 Coke 越狱了。各方面的行动和反应。酒吧里一位叫 Smith 的对此尤为关注。

It is 6 o' clock 钟 on a very cold winter 冬 evening. All over England people are sitting down in their living-rooms and are watching the news 新闻 on TV or are listening to it on the radio 无线电. There is one very important piece of news this evening. It is this:

"In the West of England this evening, hundreds 百 of police-men are looking for a man who escaped 逃脱 from Princeville Prison early this morning. The man's name is Edward Coke. He is 30 years old, 6-foot tall 身高；高的, and has black hair and blue eyes. He is wearing a dark blue prison uniform 制服. The police do not think he can stay free very long. It is only a few degrees above zero 零 and it is snowing 雪；下雪."

The radio 无线电 is on in an expensive 昂贵的 pub 酒吧 in the center of London. Most of the people there are not very interested in the news 新闻, but one man is. His name is Eric Smith. He is about 45 and is wearing very expensive clothes 衣服，衣物. He is looking very afraid 害怕的 of something. There is another man standing next to him at the bar 条；酒吧. Smith is asking him a question.

"Did they say the man's name was Coke?"

"Yes, that's right, Coke... Edward Coke. Why? Do you know him?"

" Pardon 宽恕；说啥？?"

"Do you know him?"

"No... no.... I don't know him... I ... I just wanted to know the man's name, that's all."

In another part of London, a young detective 侦探 is standing in the office of his chief at Scotland Yard 院子. The young detective 侦探's name is Richard Baxter.

"You knew Coke, didn't you, Baxter?'

"Yes, sir 先生. I arrested 逮捕 him 4 years ago."

Baxter's chief is nodding 点头 his head. "Yes, I know that, Baxter. That's why I'm giving you this order, now. Find Coke again! You must find him immediately!"

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Episode 3 侦探出动

Coke 躲在地里，侦探 Baxter 乘火车前往现场，车上乘客热心介绍案情。

It is 6:30 in the evening now, and the wind 风 is still blowing 吹；殴打. It is getting colder. About ten 十 miles away from Princeville Prison a man is hiding 隐藏 in a field. The wind is cutting through his thin 薄的 prison uniform 制服 like a knife 刀.

A dog is barking 吠 some‧where 某处 in the distance 距离. Is it a police dog perhaps? The man in the field does not know. There is only one idea in his mind at the moment: he must find food and some warm 暖和的 clothes, but where?

Two hundred 百 miles away in London, Baxter's train is standing at platform 平台 9 in Paddington Station. Baxter is sitting in a comfort‧able 舒服；自在 compartment 隔室. There is another man opposite 相对的 him. Baxter doesn't know the man but he can see he wants to talk. The man is holding a news‧paper 报纸 in his hands.

"I see some‧one 某人 escaped from Princeville Prison this morning."

"Oh, really?"

"Yes... Would you like to read about it? It's all here in the paper."

"No, thank 谢谢 you."

The train is leaving the station now. Baxter is looking out of the window. He can see a thou‧sand 千 bright 明亮的 lights in the windows of pubs 酒吧, cafes 咖啡店, houses and apartments 公寓套房. Everywhere 到处 people are sitting down to warm 暖和的 meals 餐 and hot cups 杯子 of tea 茶水. The world looks warm and comfort‧able 舒服；自在. The man opposite 相对的 Baxter is still talking.

"The paper says the man was a spy 间谍... he gave important military 军事 secrets 秘密 away. I hope the police catch him!"

"Yes, so do I."

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Episode 4 孤独人家

Coke 从地里出来，顺灯火找到了一孤独人家，却怕是陷阱。

Baxter got on the train at 5 o' clock 钟. An hour later, at 6, he was asleep 睡着的 in the warm 3 train compartment 隔室. Coke was still in his hiding-place in a field, 100 miles away. The winter 冬 evening got darker and colder. The wind cut through Coke's thin uniform 制服 like a knife 刀. Coke was hungry 饥饿 and tired 使…疲惫, and his arms and legs 腿 were so cold that he could hardly 几乎不 feel them. He knew he had to find food, warm clothing 衣服；服装, and a warm place some‧where 某处. "I have to make a move! I can't just stay in this field and die of the cold!" he thought.

Coke got up and began to walk. "Where am I? Which direction am I walking in? Am I going back towards the prison?" he asked himself. A few minutes later, the moon 月亮 came out and Coke could see better. He stopped and looked around. Suddenly he saw a small light not far away. "What can it be? It can't be a car. It isn't moving! It must be a house!" he said to himself and began to walk towards it. The light got larger. It was a house! He could see the form of the roof 屋顶 in the darkness 黑暗.

Ten 十 minutes later, he was outside the house. He stopped and listened. "Strange!" he thought. "I can't hear anything, not even a radio 无线电 or a TV, but there must be some‧one 某人 in there! There's a light on." Just at that moment, a thought struck strike him.

"This is probably the only house around for miles! The police know I'm probably around here some‧where 某处; and if they're any‧where 任何地方, they're in that house, waiting for me!"

Coke didn't move. The wind became colder. His feet and hands felt like ice 冰 in the snow 雪；下雪. "I have to take the chance! I have to! This is the only place I can find warm clothes and food!" he thought.

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Episode 5 闯入寡妇家

Coke 最终铤而走险，推门而入，主人竟是聋子寡妇。慷慨给吃。

Coke listened for several seconds but he could not hear anything at all. And yet there was smoke 烟 coming from the chimney 烟囱 and there was a light on in the front room! "Why is it so quiet 清静的? Is it a trap 陷阱；诱骗? Are the police waiting for me in there?" he asked himself. He went to the front door and pushed 推 it. To his surprise it was open! He went in very quietly 清静的. In the front room there was a fire burning 烧 in the fire‧place 壁炉. The room was clean, small and very warm. There was very little furniture 家具 in it---only a couch 长椅 and a table in front of the fire and two old-fashioned 时尚 chairs 椅子. There were also some photographs 照片 on the shelf 架子 above the fire. They were yellow 黄色的 and old. There were also a few of the same young man and also a woman in old-fashioned wedding 结婚-clothes.

Suddenly Coke froze 使结冰；不动:freeze. There was some‧one 某人 else in the room. He knew it. He could feel it! He turned around quickly and, at the same time, put his hand in his pocket 口袋. There was a small knife 刀 there. He saw an old woman. She had a covered dish 盘 in her hands and there was a delicious 美味的 smell 气味；嗅觉 of meat 肉 and vegetables 蔬菜 coming from it. She didn't look afraid 害怕的. She didn't look even surprised.

"I'm sorry 对不起的," she said, and put the dish 盘 down on the table. Coke could hardly 几乎不 believe his ears 耳朵. Here he was, a stranger in her house and yet she said she was sorry!

"I'm sorry," she said again. "I didn't hear you. Did you knock 敲? I'm deaf 聋的, you see."

She pointed to her ear 耳朵, shook 摇晃:shake her head and said " deaf" a second time. "People often come to the door and knock, but I don't hear them. I'm glad 高兴的 you came in."

Coke stared 盯着看，凝视，注视 at her for a second and then finally found his voice, "I ... I'm sorry 对不起的 I just stepped in."

He looked down at his clothes. His prison uniform 制服 was so dirty 肮脏 that it was impossible 不可能的 to tell what kind of uniform 制服 it was. Then he suddenly had an idea.

"I'm a mechanic 技工 from a garage 车库 in town. I came to repair 修理 a truck 卡车，车辆 some‧where 某处 out here but the road was icy 冷冰冰. I had an accident 意外事件. I ... I fell fall off my motor‧bike 摩托车."

He had to say this several times before she finally understood understand him. When she did, she gave him some hot water and soap 肥皂 and after‧ward 之后 some food. The only thing he needed now was a change of clothes!

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Episode 6 警察奔向寡妇家

当地警察局派警察骑自行车前往聋子寡妇家探望。侦探 Baxter 的火车也到了当地车站。

It was a cold and miserable 悲惨的 night. Only a few miles from the house Coke was in, two police-men in a small village 村庄 station could hear the wind outside. One of them was a sergeant 军士. The other was much younger.

"I wonder how Mrs Bentley is?" the sergeant 军士 asked.

"Mrs Bentley? Oh, you mean that old lady 女士 whose 谁的 husband died a few years ago?"

"That's right. She's deaf 聋的, you know, so she never listens to the radio 3 or watches TV. In fact, she doesn't even read the papers."

"Oh?" the young police‧man 警察 said. He wondered why the sergeant 军士 wanted to tell him all this. Then he found out.

"Why don't you go out to her place and see if she's all right?"

"Who? Me? On a night like this?"

"It's not far. Besides 而且, you've got your bike 自行车, haven't you?"

Baxter got off the train at a small station. There was a detective 侦探 waiting for him on the platform 平台. He shook Baxter's hand. "My name's Jones, Tom Jones. Scotland Yard 院子 phoned us and told us to meet you here. There's a car waiting."

Baxter wasted 浪费 very little time on social formalities 礼节.

"Coke escaped more than 24 hours ago. I want to catch him before another 24 hours are up."

Jones looked at Baxter for a few seconds before he answered.

"A lot of us wonder why Scotland Yard is so interested in this fellow 同伴 Coke. He isn't the first one to escape 逃脱. Another man did only about 6 months ago, but Scotland Yard 3 didn't send anyone to help us then." Baxter was already half-way to the car before he said anything.

"Coke isn't an ordinary 普通的 prisoner 犯人，囚犯. He's very special. Let's get going!"

The young police‧man 警察 was angry 生气的. He was on the road now. The wind was cold and blew 吹；殴打:blow snow 雪；下雪 into his face. "That stupid 愚蠢的 sergeant 军士!" he thought. "We must be one of the last stations in England that still uses bikes 自行车, and he sends me out on a night like this!"

He had to get off the bike 自行车 and push 推 it up a hill 小山. It was the last hill between the station and the old lady 女士's house. When he got to the top of it he could see the house down below, at the bottom 底部 of the hill. Just as he looked down at it, he saw a light go on in one of the rooms upstairs 楼上. " Stupid 愚蠢的! That's what it is, sending me out on a night like this!" the police‧man 警察 said again. Then he got on his bike 自行车 and began to go down the hill 3 very fast 快的, towards the house.

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Episode 7 给吃还给穿

聋子寡妇饭后又热心让 Coke 换上暖和衣服。

"You know, your clothes are in a terrible 可怕的 state," the old lady 女士 said after the meal 餐. You ruined 破坏 them when you had the accident 意外事件!"

"That's all right. They're just my work-clothes," Coke answered.

"My husband was just about your size. A little heavier perhaps. All his clothes are upstairs 楼上. They're no good to him. He died two years ago." She pointed up to the room above them.

"Why don't you see if any of his clothes fit you? You can bring them back tomorrow 在明天."

" Nobody 没有人 can be this lucky 幸运!" Coke thought to himself. He went upstairs 楼上 and turned the light on. It was clear that the old lady 3 was almost in another world. She trusted 信任 every‧body 每人. He found a heavy jacket 衣服, a woolen 羊毛制的 shirt 衬衫 and some trousers 长裤 hanging 悬挂 in the room.

"What do you know about Coke?" Baxter asked Jones. They were in the car now. "Very little, I'm afraid 害怕的. In fact, I don't think I know anything about him at all. Wasn't he the fellow 同伴 who was in that spy 间谍 case about 4 years ago?"

"Yes, that's right. Coke always said it wasn't him ... that it was someone 3 else."

"That's what they all say. But what's so special about him?"

"Coke was in Army Intelligence 情报. He knew important secrets. We could never understand why he sold sell them. There wasn't a real motive 动机. Some said he did it for money. We couldn't prove it, but if he was a spy 间谍, he still knows much. We could never find out who he sold sell the secrets to. That's why we have to catch him before he makes contact 联系 with any of his old friends!"

Coke put the clothes on as quickly as he could. They were old and shabby 破旧, but at least they were warm. When he came downstairs 楼下, the old lady was still in front of the fire. She smiled when she looked at him. "You know, you look just like my husband in those clothes, when he was much younger, of course."

"I can't thank 谢谢 you enough. It's very kind of you to do all this for me." The old lady didn't seem to hear him.

"Just like my husband," she said again. Just then, there was a knock 敲 on the door.

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Episode 8 袭击警察

Coke 打翻警察，抢了他的自行车逃跑。警察电话救急。

The deaf 聋的 old lady didn't hear the knock, but Coke did. His heart began to pound 敲打；英镑 wildly 野生的. Whoever 无论谁 it was obviously 明显 knew there was someone inside because there was light on and smoke 烟 coming from the chimney 烟囱. He had to decide what to do, and quickly.

"There's someone at the door," he said loudly 响亮的, but the old lady did not understand.

"There's someone at the door," he said again, this time even more loudly than before. She went out of the room and Coke quickly stepped back into the shadows 阴影 of the front room.

The old lady opened the front door. Coke could see her quite clearly, but nothing else. He listened carefully 小心.

" Hello 哈喽, Mrs Bentley. I'm from the village 村庄 police station. The sergeant 军士 sent send me. I've got something to tell you."

Then Coke saw the police‧man 警察 very clearly. Coke looked around quickly. There was a poker 捅火钩；扑克 lying in the fire‧place 壁炉. He almost went to get it and then stopped.

"No!" he thought. "That's too dangerous 危险. They already think I'm a spy 间谍. Whatever 无论什么 I have to do I can do just as well with my fists 拳头." He stepped back and waited. The old lady and the police‧man 警察 came through the door into the sitting-room. Coke was still behind the door, so the police‧man 警察 could not see him.

"Good evening officer. Can I help you?" Coke said very loudly and clearly. The police‧man 警察 turned around and looked at Coke. He was very surprised. Then Coke hit him as hard as he could in the stomach 胃 and he fell fall to the floor heavily 很大，沉重地. The old lady screamed 叫喊. The police‧man 警察 tried to get up, but fell fall back weakly 柔弱的. Coke ran run out of the room.

The phone rang 戒指；打电话:ring about 5 minutes later at the local police head‧quarter 总部. Jones answered it.

"What? Coke? Where? When?"

Baxter stood stand up as soon as he heard hear Coke's name. He quickly put his hat 帽子 and coat 上衣 on. Jones listened carefully 小心 to the voice on the other end and quickly made a few notes.

Then he put the phone down and turned to Baxter.

"Well, we know where Coke is now. A police‧man 警察 almost caught catch him only 5 minutes ago."

"What do you mean, 'he almost caught catch him'? Did he catch him or didn't he?"

"No, he got away. He stole the police‧man 警察's bike 自行车."

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Episode 9 劫警车

Baxter 和警官 Jones 立即驱车前往现场。路上见 Coke 欲擒拿，不料却把警车也丢给了 Coke。

Baxter got into the car first. Jones was right behind him. "You drive. You know the area better than I do," Baxter said. They raced out of the town and into the dark country‧side 农村.

"It's ridiculous 荒谬," Jones said. "Does he really think he's going to get away from us on a bike 自行车?"

"Coke isn't a fool 愚人," Baxter answered. "He probably doesn't realize we already know what happened in the old lady's house."

"You mean he doesn't know that even village 村庄 police-men have small two-way radios 无线电 these days?"

"That's right. He probably thinks it's going to take that police‧man 警察 at least half an hour to get to the nearest phone. He thinks he can get pretty 漂亮的 far in that time."

Ten 十 minutes later, about 3 miles from the old lady's house, Baxter suddenly saw someone on the dark road ahead 前面；往前.

"Look! There!" he shouted 呼喊. "There's someone on a bike 自行车! And look! He's going to get off!"

Jones saw the man quite clearly, but only for a second. As soon as the man saw they were in a police car, he dropped his bike 自行车 and ran run into the trees at the side of the road.

"That's Coke!" Baxter shouted. "He isn't going to get away this time!" Baxter jumped 跳 out of the car even before Jones stopped it, and ran run after Coke. Jones jumped out, too. He didn't even switch 开关 off the head-lights.

All Coke's training as a soldier 士兵 helped him now. Baxter was just behind him when Coke suddenly turned. Baxter tried to grab 用手抓 him but almost lost lose his balance 平衡. Then Coke hit him on the chin 下巴 as hard as he could. Baxter fell fall to the ground grind heavily 很大，沉重地. At that moment, Jones jumped on Coke from behind but Coke threw throw him over his back and against a tree, and then ran run back towards the ground grind again. There was a terrible 可怕的 pain in his ribs 肋骨. Coke saw the police car very clearly. The head-lights were still on, and one of the doors was open. Coke jumped in.

It took Baxter several seconds to realize where he was. At first, all he could feel was a terrible pain in his jaw 下巴. Then he heard the sound of a car engine 发动机 starting. He looked up and saw Jones pointing to it. Suddenly Baxter realized everything. Jones tried to run after the car but it was too late. Coke was gone and so was their car!

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Episode 10 闯封锁线

Coke 开警车闯过封锁线，直奔 London。

Coke drove drive for about twenty 二十 minutes. He felt nervous 担心的 in the police car but he knew it was his only chance.

"I wonder how that police‧man 警察 managed to contact 联系 police-head‧quarter 总部 so quickly?" He asked himself. Then he remembered a news‧paper 报纸 article 文章 about the new pocket 口袋 radios all police-men had. They were small things which they put in their pockets 口袋.

"Of course! That's it!" he thought. Then he wondered if detectives 侦探 like Jones and Baxter also had them. He knew they probably did not, because they already had radios in their cars. Suddenly, however, something on the road ahead 前面；往前 interrupted 打断 his thoughts. Two police cars were there, side by side, blocking 块 the road. Nothing could get by them!

The two police-men at the road-block 块 were bored. It was a lonely 孤独的 spot 地点 between two hills 小山 and there was very little traffic 交通.

"Could you give me a light, Tom?" one of them said. It was his tenth cigarette 香烟，纸烟 that night. Just then, they both looked up and saw a car coming towards them.

"It's a police car," the other one said. "Perhaps they're bringing us some hot coffee 咖啡, or something to eat 吃."

They both watched the car as it came closer. It was a long, straight 直的 road and the car was still a good distance 距离 away.

"Isn't it going to stop?"

"It doesn't look like it."

"Shall we stop it? Our orders are to stop every car."

Just then, they heard the two-tone 音 sound of the horn 角；喇叭. It was obvious 明显 that who‧ever 无论谁 was in the car was in a great hurry 赶紧.

The two police-men hesitated 犹豫 for a second. Then one of them turned to the other, "Would you move the car out of the way, Bob, or shall I?

"But our orders were to ..."

"Look! That's a police car, can't you see? You don't think Coke's going to come through here in a police car, do you?"

The other police‧man 警察 got into the car and moved it back a few inches 英寸; the gap 缺口 was just wide enough for another car to get through now.

"Aren't you going to move back some more?" the other shouted.

Before he could do so. Coke shot 射击；拍摄:shoot through the narrow 狭窄的 gap and raced down the road in the direction of London.

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Episode 11 换摩托

侦探 Baxter 和警官 Jones 在野外摸索。 Coke 到一小村里换了辆摩托车。

"How much farther far is it to the nearest village 3?" Baxter asked.

He and Jones were in the middle 中部 of the country‧side 农村. The night was very dark and there was no traffic 交通 on the roads. They could not see a house or even a public phone box 盒；耳光 any‧where 任何地方.

"It must be on the other side of that hill," Jones answered.

"I hope so! We've been walking for twenty 二十 minutes now! When we started, you said it was only ten 十 minutes away!" Baxter said angrily 生气的. He was tired and his jaw 下巴 hurt 损害. He could already imagine the Chief Inspector's comments 评论 at their next interview 访问. The Chief Inspector was a very sarcastic 讽刺的；挖苦的 man. "Well, Baxter, perhaps you would explain all this to me. It seems you had a car when you saw Coke and that he had it after he saw you. Very interesting. How shall we explain all this to the papers? Shall we say something like 'The police are always ready to help?'"

Coke turned off the main road. He wanted to get rid 使摆脱 of the police car as soon as possible. The army often used the area for maneuvers 演习；移动 and Coke remembered it from the days when he was a soldier 士兵. He knew there was a village down a side road. Just before he got to it, he stopped and left the car in a field. Then he walked into the village itself 本身. He wanted something and he was sure he could find it here.

In his apartment 公寓套房 in London, a well-dressed man named Eric Smith turned on the radio and listened. The news 3 was still bad. Coke was still free, the announcer 宣布 said. Smith looked very frightened 使惊恐. He turned off the radio suddenly and picked up the phone.

In a village almost 200 miles away, Coke found what he wanted.

"People in villages 村庄 like this always trust 信任 their neighbours. How lucky 幸运!" he thought when he saw the motor‧bike 摩托车.

It was in a garage 车库 at the edge 边 of the village. The garage was not even locked 锁 and there was a leather 皮 motor‧cycle 摩托车 suit on a nail 钉子. There was also a pair 一副 of gloves 手套 and a helmet 头盔. Everyone 每人 in the village was asleep 睡着的. Coke worked silently 沉默的. He pushed the bike 自行车 down the road. When he was far enough away from the village be started the engine 发动机. It roared 咆哮 loudly. He got on the motor‧bike 摩托车 and raced towards London.

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Episode 12

Eric Smith had the face of a man who lived comfort‧able 舒服 and ate 吃:eat well. It was the face of a man who usually did not worry 烦恼 about the future. All this was gone now. He was very worried 烦恼 indeed when he picked up the phone and dialed 拨号 nervously 担心的. At first, nobody 没有人 answered at the other end. The phone rang 戒指；打电话:ring at least 12 times but Smith did not hang 悬挂 up. Finally a sleepy 困 voice answered angrily, "Who is it? What the devil 魔鬼 do you want at this hour?"

It was a man's voice, and it was educated 教育 and smooth 光滑的, but it had a cruel 残酷的, cold edge 边.

"Is that you, Hugo? This is Eric," Smith said quickly.

The man at the other end became even angrier 生气的.

"And why are you ringing 戒指；打电话 at this hour? I've been in bed for an hour!"

"But, haven't you heard the news, Hugo? Coke's still free!"

"Of course I've heard. So have my friends," the man answered coldly.

"I can't sleep. I've been thinking about Coke all evening!"

"Perhaps you'd better take a sleeping pill 丸!"

Smith almost screamed the next question into the phone. "What are you going to do, Hugo? What are you going to do?'

The man at the other end answered just as coldly and as calmly 镇定的 as before. "Do? We're going to kill Coke! That's what we're going to do. That is, if he is stupid 愚蠢的 enough to come to London!"

The motor‧bike 摩托车 was fast 快的 but the roads were icy 冷冰冰. Coke drove drive dangerously 危险. He knew he had to. He had very little time.

"I'd better keep to the side roads," he thought, but he didn't because the main road was much faster 快的, and he had very little time. A police car went by in the opposite 相对的 direction. He began to feel a little safer 安全的. Then, around 2 o' clock 钟 in the morning, he suddenly saw lights in his mirror 镜子. They were the head-lights of another police car, and this time it was just behind him. It came closer and closer and then suddenly speeded 速度 up. For several seconds, Coke and the car raced along side by side. Coke looked up. The two police-men in the car were looking at him but they could not see his face clearly. He was wearing a helmet 头盔 and goggles 护目镜. Coke raised his hand and waved 波浪 casually 胡乱；漫不经心. The driver was already looking at the road again, but the other still had his eyes on Coke. Then, the car speeded up again. In a few seconds it was far ahead 前面；往前 of them. Coke raced towards London. He knew exactly where he wanted to go

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Episode 13

Coke reached London just before 6. The huge 巨大 city was just beginning to wake 醒 up but the streets were still dark. He drove drive to ablock 块 of small apartments not far from the river in the south‧east 东南. There was a light on in one of the ground grind floor apartments. It was shining 发光 in the kitchen 厨房. He went to the window and tapped 敲；龙头；汲取（液体） softly 软的. He was still standing at the window when the back door opened. When he looked up, a woman was standing there. He hesitated when he saw her and almost went back into the shadows again, but she looked at him calmly. "Come in, Ted. I've been expecting you," she said very softly. He walked towards her and stood in the open door‧way 门口.

"I haven't got any right to ask for your help," he said after a pause 暂停.

"But there's nobody 没有人 else you can go to, is there? You'd better come in," she answered calmly.

Baxter caught catch a very early train to London. When he got to Scotland Yard, the Chief Inspector was waiting for him. When Baxter went into his office, he was sitting at his desk 书桌 and looking at a photograph 照片. The Inspector looked at Baxter quickly, then back at the photo 照片，像片. "Perhaps it was a good thing you didn't catch Coke after all, " he said suddenly. Baxter stared at him in surprise.

"What do you mean, sir 先生? I don't understand."

"I have a picture here of a man who knew Coke in the army. He was also a witness 目击；目击者 at Coke's trial. I've been interested in the man for some time now. Perhaps we'll be able to find out more about him now that Coke's free," the Inspector said, and gave Baxter the photograph 照片.

"This is the man. Watch him. Follow him every‧where 到处!"

Baxter looked at the man in the photo 照片，像片 carefully 小心. It was Eric Smith.

"You really shouldn't help me, Kate. It's against the law," Coke said. He and the young woman were sitting in her kitchen 厨房. He was eating 吃 break‧fast 早餐 hungrily 饥饿. Kate did not say anything.

"I mean, every‧body 每人 thinks I'm a spy 间谍," he went on.

"But I don't think so," she finally said. Coke finished his breakfast silently. Then he said, "You were the only person who ever believed I was innocent 无辜. That's why I came to you. Who else will help me?"

"Help you to do what, Ted?" Kate asked.

"Help me to find the real spies 间谍," he answered slowly.

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Episode 14

Kate was what the Americans call "a cool character"; nothing seemed to surprise her very much. She seemed ready for anything. Perhaps this was because she was an actress 女演员. She played small parts in films 影片 and on TV. Her life was full of surprises. Just then she was not working at all. Perhaps that was why she did not hesitate 犹豫 even for a second when Coke said he wanted her help to find the real spies 间谍.

"All right," she said. "I'll help you and I'll start right now. Wait here!"

"What do you mean? Where are you going?" Coke asked.

"You'll find out when I come back. I'll have to get some things now!"

Before Coke could ask her anything more, she was gone.

Not very far away, Baxter was still sitting in the Chief Inspector's Office. He was still looking at Smith's photograph 照片. He looked up. "What's so interesting about him? Why do you want me to follow him?" he asked.

"A few days ago, quite by accident 意外事件 we learned learn a few things about him. Coke might ... notice I say 'might' ... be innocent 无辜 after all. It's only a possibility 可能性. We want to see what Smith does if Coke contacts 联系 him," the Chief Inspector answered. Baxter was even more surprised now.

"I don't understand, sir 先生? What do you think Smith might do?" he said.

"Smith might try to kill him if he's really afraid 害怕的 of him."

"But surely that's dangerous 危险, sir. I mean, if Coke is innocent 无辜, Smith might kill him ... and if he isn't innocent 无辜, we're letting him go free. After all, Coke might kill Smith, or someone else!"

The Chief Inspector looked very serious.

"That's a chance we'll have to take, Baxter!" he said.

Time passed by slowly for Coke that morning and after‧noon 下午. He slept sleep a bit 一点 but then got up and walked about the apartment 公寓套房 nervously. It was evening before Kate came back. The winter 3 sun 太阳 was just setting when she came through the door. She was carrying a large bundle 捆 and a lot of other things.

"Where have you been? You've been gone for hours!" he said.

"Yes, I've been busy 忙碌的. Here. Try these things on," she answered. She un-wrapped 包 the bundle quickly and showed him a suit, shoes 鞋 and a shirt 衬衫. There was also a coat 上衣 with an expensive 昂贵的 fur 毛皮 collar 衣领, the sort millionaires 百万富翁 wear in films. Coke put the clothes on unwillingly 不甘. "I'll have to change my appearance 外貌 more than this!" he said.

"Of course you will," she answered. "And I've got just the things you'll need!"

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Episode 15

First Kate dyed 染料 Coke's hair grey 灰色:gray. Then she used some theatrical 戏剧的 makeup 化妆 to give him a much older face. Finally she put a pair 一副 of dark glasses 玻璃 on him, thrust 推力 a white walking-stick 棍；粘贴 into his hand and led him firmly to a full-length mirror 镜子. Coke was surprised at how strong her grip 握 was. He was even more surprised when he saw himself. An old man stared back at him.

"And now," Kate said, "You'll have to do far more than simply look like an old blind 失明的 man. You'll have to walk, talk and act like one, too!" For the next hour she taught teach him exactly how to do that.

"You learn fast 快的. We can go now," she finally said.

"What do you mean 'we'? You can't come with me. It might be dangerous 危险," he objected. Kate was already putting her coat 上衣 on. Her answer was simple. "If you want my help, you'll have to take me with you. Besides 而且, things are just beginning to get interesting!"

They were walking towards a taxi 出租车-rank 排列. There were usually several taxis 出租车 parked there, waiting for customers 顾客.

"We must look an odd 奇 couple, you and I," Coke remarked.

"Don't worry 烦恼 about that. We look so odd 奇 that nobody 3 will guess 推测 who you are. Now just tell me where we're going!"

"To a pub in Soho called 'The Great Rider'. Smith used to go there a lot," Coke answered.

"You mean you think he's one of the spies 间谍?"

"I don't know, but he didn't tell the truth at the trial. Why else would he lie?" Coke said. Just then they got to the taxi 出租车-rank 排列. There were not any taxis there. "We'll have to take a bus 公共汽车. Just remember that you're an old, blind 失明的 man. I'll help you get on and get off!" Kate said.

They got to Soho half an hour later. The streets were brightly 明亮的-lit light. There were people, pubs, restaurants 饭店, cinemas 电影 and strip 剥光-tease 逗 clubs every‧where 到处. There was a man in front of one of the clubs. Whenever 随时 someone passed by he said: "The best show in London. Twenty beautiful 美丽 girls. Step right in!" He began to say that when he saw Coke but as soon as he noticed Coke's dark glasses and white walking-stick 棍；粘贴, he closed his mouth 口 again. They walked on until Coke suddenly gripped 握 Kate's arm very hard. "This is the place. Take me in!" he said. There were two doors. One was marked 'Public Bar 条；酒吧' and the other 'Saloon Bar'. "Which one?" she asked.

"The Saloon Bar 3!" he whispered 低声说. They went into the crowded 人群；拥挤, noisy 嘈杂, smoke 烟-filled room. Several people stared at them curiously 好奇的 when they came in.

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Episode 16

Kate led Coke to a table and then went to the bar to get their drinks.

"I've been here before. I was here last week," she said when he came back. Coke was not listening.

"Smith isn't here," he said.

"Surely you didn't expect to walk in and find him, just like that?"

"No, I suppose not."

Time dragged 拖拽. They sat sit there for over an hour. More people came in, but Smith was not among them. It was getting towards closing time when the bar-man came to their table.

"May I have your empty 空的 glasses?" he asked politely 有礼貌的.

Coke touched him on his sleeve 袖. "Does a man named Eric Smith ever come in here?" he asked. He did not notice the man standing at the bar who stared at him in the mirror 镜子 when he mentioned Smith's name.

The bar-man thought for a second. "There's a man named Eric who comes in here a lot. He's a military 军事 type. Is that who you mean?" he asked. Coke tried to sound casual 随便 when he asked his next question.

"Has he been in here today?" The bar-man nodded 点头. "Yes," he answered. "He was in this after‧noon 下午." "I don't suppose you know where I can find him now?" Coke asked. "I'm afraid 4 not. All I know about him is that he has an antique 古董 shop 商店 somewhere 4 near Red Lion Square," he answered.

"Wasn't that a bit 一点 dangerous 危险?" Kate asked after the bar-man left.

"Yes, it was. But I haven't got much time. I've got to find Smith before the police find me," he answered.

"I still don't understand why you can't simply find his address 地址 in the telephone 电话 book!"

"I've already looked. I went through the phone book in your apartment 公寓套房. Smith might have a phone but his number isn't there."

The bar-man was shouting 呼喊 "Last orders, please 请;讨人喜欢" when Coke and Kate left. Kate led him through the crowded, bright 明亮的 streets. Most of the pubs were closing. It was 11:00, but the clubs and restaurants were still busy 忙碌的. When they got to Shaftesbury Avenue 大道, Kate called a taxi 出租车. Neither she nor Coke noticed the man who was so close behind them in the crowd 人群；拥挤 that he heard Kate say "Red Lion Square, please 请;讨人喜欢" to the driver. They did not see him get into a cab 出租车 and follow them, either.

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Episode 17

"Would you mind driving round 圆形的；围绕 the Square once?" Kate asked the driver. Red Lion Square was deserted 沙漠；抛弃. There were a number of dark side streets around it.

"It's obviously 明显 not on the Square itself 本身," Coke said.

They got out of the taxi 出租车, paid pay the driver and started exploring 探索；探测.

There were antique 古董 shops 商店 on several of the side streets but they all either had names like "Connoisseur's Corner 角落" which told them nothing about who owned the shop 商店, or other names like "Richards", and "Harvey Keen 热切的". Smith's name was not among them.

Half an hour later they were still looking. Kate kept keep glancing 一瞥 over her shoulder 肩膀. She had the uncomfortable 不舒服 feeling that someone was following them but she could not see any‧body 任何人.

"I don't like wandering 漫步 round 圆形的；围绕 the dark streets at this hour," she said. "Someone's bound 必定；跳 to notice us!" she went on. "I don't like doing it, either, but what else can we do? We can't stop looking now. It might be our last chance," Coke answered.

Suddenly something in the window of a shop 商店 across the road caught catch his eye. The street was very dark but the thing gleamed 闪光. It reflected 反射 the light of a passing car. They crossed 穿过；十字 the street. The thing was an old military 军事 sword 剑 and it was in a window marked "Antique Weapons and Military 军事 Antiques." There were old pistols 手枪, helmets 头盔 and other swords 剑 in the window. Coke became excited 使兴奋. "This must be it!" he said. Kate lit a match 比赛；火柴 so that they could see a bit 一点 better. There was no name on the window but there was a phone number on the door. Coke copied 复制品 it down.

It was around mid‧night 午夜 when the phone rang 戒指；打电话:ring in Eric Smith's apartment 3. The voice on the other end was hard and cold.

"This is Hugo," it said. "Why didn't you come to the Great Rider?"

"I'm sorry 4, Hugo. I ... I don't enjoy going there any more. Not since Coke escaped. I ... I thought it might be dangerous 危险." Smith was nervous 担心的. He became even more so when he heard what Hugo had to say. "There was an old blind 失明的 man in the pub. He had a young woman with him. He asked about you and then went to your shop 3." Smith blinked 眨 in surprise. His voice cracked 破裂 slightly. "But I don't know any‧body 任何人 like that. What did they want?"

"How do I know, you fool 愚人? Just watch out for them, that's all!" Hugo said furiously 疯狂 and hung 悬挂:hang up. Smith slept very badly 很糟地 that night.

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Episode 18

Coke did not sleep very well that night, either. He lay lie awake 醒着的 thinking. He was on Kate's sofa 沙发 in the sitting-room. Slowly, however, he formed a plan in his mind. He fell fall asleep 睡着的 around 3 in the morning.

When he woke 醒:wake up, Kate was already in the kitchen 厨房 making break‧fast 早餐. "What are you going to do now?" she asked while they were eating. Coke did not answer immediately. He stared into his coffee 咖啡. He knew he had to make one thing clear to her. "Have you thought what'll happen to you if the police find me here?" he suddenly asked. Kate looked at him coolly. "We've been over this before, haven't we? Now answer my question," she answered.

"But they'll send you to prison if they learn you've helped me!"

"I'll worry 烦恼 about that if and when it happens."

"All right, I'll tell you. But I warn 警告 you, if anything goes wrong, you might get hurt 损害, badly 很糟地 hurt!" he told her.

"Go on. I'm listening."

"We're going to try to get Smith to come here. That is, if the owner of that shop is Smith."

"Get him to come here? How?"

Coke began to explain the plan in his mind.

Eric Smith was cleaning an antique 古董 pistol 手枪 when the phone rang 3 in his shop. He heard a young woman's voice at the other end. "I believe you buy and sell antique 古董 weapons 武器," she said.

"Yes, that's right. I'm particularly interested in old fire‧arm 火器."

"My father is, too. He has a number of 17th-century pistols 手枪 and he wants to sell some of them. Would you be interested?"

"Certainly. If you bring them to my shop, I'll look at them and give you a price."

"Well, unfortunately 不幸 my father's blind 3. It's very difficult for him to get about. Would you mind coming to our place?" the woman answered.

Smith managed to answer calmly.

"Well... er ... my assistant 助理 is out to lunch 午餐. I'll come over when he comes back. Is that all right?" He noted down the address 地址 she gave him and hung 悬挂:hang up. His hands were trembling 发抖 slightly. "These must be the people Hugo told me about," he thought. He reached into a drawer 抽屉 and took out a pistol 手枪. This one was not an antique 古董. It was a small, black, nasty 讨厌-looking automatic 自动.

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Episode 19

Smith rang Hugo just before he left his shop.

"You told me about an old blind man and a woman ... well, they've just phoned. They want me to go to their place and look at some antique 古董 pistols 手枪," he said nervously.

"Well, what do you want me to do about it?" Hugo asked sarcastically 讽刺的；挖苦的. "You have a pistol 手枪, haven't you?" he added.

Smith could not understand why Hugo was so casual 随便 about it. He got into his white Jaguar and drove drive off.

"Perhaps the old man really does want me to look at his pistols 手枪," he thought. He patted 拍 the pistol 手枪 in his pocket 口袋. It made him feel safer.

He felt even safer when Kate opened the door. She was slim 瘦, almost delicate 微妙的；纤弱的-looking. "Good after‧noon 下午," he said. "I'm Eric Smith. You rang my shop earlier." She smiled. "I hope I haven't put you to any trouble. However, I'm sure you'll decide we haven't made you come all this way for nothing, " she said pleasantly 可爱的, and led him into the sitting-room. Smith glanced 一瞥 suspiciously 可疑的 at the old, blind man sitting on the sofa 沙发. At first he seemed harm‧less 无害 enough, but there was something familiar 熟悉的 about the man's face that made Smith look more carefully 小心 at him.

"I'll go and get the pistols 手枪," Kate said. Smith stayed where he was, where he could see everything and where nobody could come in behind him. The old, blind man did not move. He simply sat sit there, his hands folded 折叠 on his white walking-stick 棍；粘贴, his eyes behind the dark glasses staring 盯着看，凝视，注视 blindly 失明的 in front of him.

"Are you a collector 收藏家, too?" Smith asked. The old man simply nodded 点头. The woman came out of the bed‧room 卧室 with a large black case. "They're all in here," she said. "If you come over here, to the table, we can look at them. My father doesn't really want anyone else to have them, but I'm afraid 5 we have no choice 选择. It's a question of money."

Smith kept his eyes fastened 系牢 on the old man's face as he walked towards the table. He was half‧way 半 there when the old man raised his face slightly. The sudden movement 运动 made Smith stop. The more he looked at that face, the more suspicious 可疑的 he became. Suddenly it dawned 黎明 on him. He stared at both of them. They were both waiting expectantly for him to come nearer. It was the old man's nose 鼻子 and lips 嘴唇 that made Smith think of Coke. He reached for his pistol 手枪.

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Episode 20

When Smith pulled out the automatic 自动, Kate was standing between him and Coke. She could see that he was almost hysterical 歇斯底里 and was probably going to shoot 射击；拍摄.

"It's you, Coke!" he burst 爆裂 out and came nearer. Kate was standing in his way now and he put out his hand to push 推 her away.

Coke could hardly 几乎不 believe his eyes. One moment Smith was pointing a pistol 手枪 at him and the next he was lying on the floor, gasping 喘气 for breath 呼吸. Kate had thrown throw him over her shoulder 肩膀. "I once played a police-woman in a film 影片 and I had to learn some judo," she said rather casually 胡乱；漫不经心 and looked down at Smith. Coke did not simply stare 盯着看，凝视，注视 in surprise; he gaped 盱；目瞪口呆 at her. Then he picked up the automatic 自动 that Smith had dropped and gaped 盱；目瞪口呆 again.

Smith groaned 呻吟. He, too, could hardly 3 believe what had happened. It all seemed incredible 难以置信. He shook his head. He decided that it was probably all a night‧mare 恶梦, a horrible 可怕 dream. He was sure that he was going to wake 醒 up at any moment, safe 安全的 in his own bed. He blinked 眨 his eyes several times, hoping that Kate and Coke were some‧how 某种方法 going to disappear 不见. He blinked 眨 again, but when he opened his eyes, they were still there.

"And now that you're here, perhaps you wouldn't mind answering some questions," Coke said. Smith groaned 呻吟 again.

"Questions? What questions?" he mumbled 咕哝. He was still in a daze 迷乱.

"I want you to tell me everything that happened that evening you sent send me to Epping Forest 森林," Coke said in a low voice. Smith now realized that it was not a dream. For a moment he thought he was going to be sick 病；恶心.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Smith answered.

"I think you do," Coke said.

"You can't make me tell you anything!" Smith waited to see what Coke was going to do next. He could not take his eyes off the automatic 自动 in Coke's hands.

"I'll give you 5 seconds to begin answering my questions. Then I'll shoot 射击；拍摄," was all Coke said.

"You couldn't shoot me like that, in cold blood 血!"

"Couldn't I?" Coke answered, and pulled back the safety 安全-catch. The pistol 手枪 was now ready to fire. Then he began counting.

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Episode 21

"But I know nothing!" Smith protested 抗议. Coke had already raised the pistol 手枪 and simply said, "One!" Smith said nothing.

"Two!" Coke brought bring the pistol 手枪 nearer.

"You can't frighten 使惊恐 me!" Smith shouted.

"Three!" Smith saw Coke had already taken aim 瞄准.

"How can I tell you something I don't know?" Smith demanded.

"Four!" Smith watched Coke's finger 手指 beginning to press the trigger 触发.

"All right, all right, I'll tell you anything you want, but for God's sake 缘故, put that pistol 手枪 down!" Smith gasped 喘气.

Coke's mind went back to the time, 5 years earlier, when both he and Smith had been officers in the same Army Intelligence 情报 unit. Smith had been Coke's superior 优越. Several important military 军事 secrets had disappeared 不见 and they were both trying to find out who had taken them.

One evening, Coke had gone, on Smith's orders, to a lonely 孤独的 place in Epping Forest 森林. Smith had told him he would meet a possible informer there. While he was waiting, 3 men had grabbed 用手抓 him from behind. They had poured 淋；倒 whisky 威士忌酒 all over him and down his throat 咽喉 and then hit him over the head.

When he came to, he was back in his car, but it had crashed 碰撞 into a tree. The police had already arrived 到达. It appeared that Coke had got drunk drink and lost lose control of his car. The police had found several files 文件 marked "Top Secret 秘密" in his car. Coke swore 发誓:swear he had never seen them before. The police also found Coke had apparently 据…所知；看来；据说；听说 deposited 留下 more than ￡2,000 in his bank 银行；岸 account a few weeks before. Coke had known nothing of the money. The bank said the checks had arrived by post 邮件, drawn draw on a Swiss bank, with Coke's counter-signature 签名. Nobody believed Coke's story. It appeared he had sold sell secrets for money and was going to do so again the night he had crashed. Smith denied 拒绝 he had ever told Coke to go to Epping Forest 森林. This is what Coke wanted to ask questions about now.

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Episode 22

For a moment Coke wanted to pull the trigger 触发. He had never killed anyone in cold blood 血, but he found it difficult not to hate 仇恨 Smith. Because of him, he had lost lose 4 years of his freedom 自由. Because of him every‧body 每人 thought he was a spy 间谍. Somehow 某种方法, Coke got a grip 握 on himself. Perhaps it was because he knew Smith was his only chance to prove he was innocent 无辜, and he knew if he killed him, he would lose that chance.

"Let's start at the beginning ... when you sent send me to Epping Forest 3 that night," Coke said in a flat 平的；公寓, cold voice.

"That was Hugo's idea. I had nothing to do with it."

"And who is Hugo?" Coke demanded.

"He sells government secrets to any foreign country that's interested. He made me give him information. I didn't want to!"

"Made you? How did he make you? " Coke asked.

Smith stared down at the floor for several seconds before he answered.

"He knew things about me. He said he would tell the police about them if I didn't help him."

"What sort of things?" Again, Smith hesitated before answering.

"What does it matter? The sort of things that would ruin 破坏 any man if the police or anyone else found out about them."

There were only a few more things Coke wanted to know now. "Why did you involve me in all this?"

"The police suspected 怀疑；嫌疑犯 someone. We wanted to make them think you were the spy 间谍. We knew they would if they found your dead body in a car after a crash 碰撞 with all sorts of secrets in it."

"My dead body?"

"Hugo thought the crash would kill you," Smith said.

"A pity 怜悯 it didn't. You'd still be safe 安全的 if I were dead!"

Smith swallowed 吞 and stared at the floor.

"And why aren't you still in the army? You'd be a lot more useful 有用 to Hugo if you were," Coke went on.

"It became too dangerous 危险. Anyway 无论如何, he still uses me."

"How?" Coke asked.

"We hide 隐藏 micro 微-films of secret 秘密 documents 文件 in the antique 古董 weapons I send abroad 到国外. The people we send them to pose 以…身份出现，造成 as foreign collectors 收藏家."

Coke had one last question. It was the most important. "Where's Hugo now? Take me to him!"

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Episode 23

Smith told Coke that Hugo owned a large garage 车库 in the North of London. Cars that had been damaged 损害 were taken there to be repaired 修理. It was also where the secret documents 文件 Hugo sold sell were kept before they were micro 微-filmed 影片 and sent send abroad 到国外.

They got into Smith's white Jaguar and drove drive there. Coke sat sit in front with Smith. Kate sat sit behind. It was almost evening when they got to the garage. It was at the end of a street and was surrounded 包围 by shops and small houses. They parked at the end of the street. People were beginning to close their shops and go home. The garage 5 stayed open till 到 6. Coke sat sit and watched the lights go off. When the last one had been turned off and the garage 6 was completely dark, Coke turned to Smith again.

"Now tell me exactly where the documents 文件 are kept before they're sent send off," he said.

At first Smith did not answer. He had become a little braver 勇敢的 again. Coke pressed the pistol 手枪 into his stomach 胃.

"Because of you, I've been kept in prison for 4 years. Because of you, my life has been ruined. I'll kill you here and now if you don't answer!"

Smith looked at the pistol 手枪 and went pale 苍白的.

"They're kept in Hugo's office, in an ordinary 普通的 file 文件 in his desk 书桌," he answered. "And the micro 微-films?" Coke demanded. "They're kept there, too."

"Do you know if any documents 文件 have been sent send off recently?"

"Some were sent send last week. I know. I sent send them myself 我, " Smith said. "And will there be any there now, waiting to be sent send off?" Again Smith hesitated. Coke pressed the pistol 手枪 even harder into his stomach 胃. "I don't know. There might be. Hugo told me he was going to give me some soon," he said.

Coke gave Kate the pistol 手枪. She was still sitting behind Smith. "Keep him here until I get back," he said.

"But what are you going to do?" she asked.

"Break into that garage 7 if I can. Perhaps I can find proof 证明 that Hugo sells these things. If I do, I'll phone the police."

"But what if you don't? What if you're seen and caught catch before you can find anything at all?" Kate asked. But Coke had already started walking toward the dark garage. In the dark winter evening, it looked very much like a prison.

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Episode 24

Once, a long time ago, someone had told him that an Army training was useful 有用 in many ways. Coke knew now that that was true. There was a drain 排水-pipe 管子 at the back of the garage that led to the roof 屋顶, and Coke managed to climb 攀登 up it. He had often done such things in the army.

There was a window in the roof, or a sky 天（空）-light, as it is called. It was closed but not locked. Coke managed to get it open and then peered 窥视 down into the dark garage below. There was a truck 卡车，车辆 parked almost directly underneath 在...之下. He jumped down onto 到…之上 it. It was completely dark inside the garage itself 本身.

"Smith told me the secrets were kept in the office, but where's the office?" he wondered. Suddenly he heard a sound behind him, and realized he was not alone in the garage.

Before he could turn around, someone grabbed him from behind and someone else shone 发光:shine a powerful 强大 light into his eyes. He was blinded 失明的. Then, there was an explosion 爆炸 of pain in his head. He realized, just before he lost lose consciousness 意识, that what had happened in Epping Forest was happening to him all over again.

When he came to again, he was lying on the floor of the garage. It was at least an hour later. He heard loud 响亮的 voices. When he opened his eyes, he saw Kate tied 打结；系上；关系 to a chair 椅子. Four men were standing above him. One of them was Smith, looking pale 苍白的 and frightened. He was listening to a short blond 金发 man. Coke knew it must be Hugo himself. Hugo was shouting.

"I told you you were a fool 愚人 ... and idiot 白痴! Do you believe me now?" he demanded. Smith tried to say something but could not.

Hugo slapped 拍击 him across the face.

"I asked you if you believed me now?" he shouted.

"But ... but Hugo. Pl ... please 请;讨人喜欢 listen to me!" Smith stammered. "I told you someone had phoned me and had asked me to look at some pistols 手枪! I told you it was an old, blind man but you said there was nothing to worry 3 about!" Smith said.

"No, I didn't. I asked you what you wanted me to do about it, you idiot 白痴!" Hugo roared. Suddenly, one of the other men interrupted.

"What did you say we were going to do with the girl and Coke?" he asked.

"I said we were going to kill them! And I said we were going to do the job properly this time!" Hugo answered.

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Episode 25

Hugo saw that Coke had come to. Coke tried to get up but his hands were tied. His head hurt 损害 terribly 可怕的. Hugo looked at him like a shark 鲨鱼 inspecting 检查 his dinner 正餐.

"We would never have become suspicious 可疑的 if you hadn't used Smith's white Jaguar," he said. "When we saw it parked half‧way 半 up the road, we decided to wait and see what would happen. Then, after we got you, we went out and got your girl friend," he continued.

Coke knew he would never have made such a stupid 愚蠢的 mistake 错误 if he had not been so tired. He had not slept properly for days. He looked at Kate. "I'd never have got you into all this if I hadn't asked you for help," he said to her. He was trapped 陷阱；诱骗. It seemed there was nothing he could do and nobody who could help him. Hugo took out a revolver 围绕. "You'd never have bothered 烦 us again if I'd used this 4 years ago," he said. He came closer to Coke and aimed 瞄准 the revolver 围绕 carefully 小心 at his head.

Suddenly there was a terrible 可怕的 crash 碰撞 as 3 police-men broke break down the side door of the garage. Hugo turned around and gaped 盱；目瞪口呆. "No, Hugo. Look up here!" a voice roared from the sky 天（空）-light above. Suddenly everybody 3 stopped. Nobody made a move. Then Baxter dropped through the sky-light, which was still open, and onto 到…之上 the truck 卡车，车辆 and finally to the ground grind. Three more police-men followed him. Baxter walked over to Hugo.

"Your revolver 围绕, please 3," he said simply.

"I was only protecting 保护 my property," Hugo answered. "This man broke break in. That girl helped him. Send him back to prison!" Baxter listened and smiled. "Certainly, but only after you've given me that revolver 围绕," he replied 回答. Hugo handed it to him silently.

The police-men around Baxter and at the door suddenly moved forward 前进地 and seized 抓住 Hugo, Smith and the 3 men.

"We've followed you every‧where 到处 for days; that's why we're here now," Baxter told Smith. Then he turned to Hugo and said, "And I've been up there for half an hour. I've heard everything you've said. Also, I think you'd have phoned us an hour ago, when Coke first broke break in, if you'd only wanted to protect 保护 your property!"

Before Hugo could protest 抗议, he and the others were led away. Baxter helped Coke to his feet. "What we know now already proves you were innocent 无辜," he said. Then he untied Coke's hands. Coke was a free man again.

THE END