新英语教程第一册 unit 6.pptVIP

“But take cheer, my young friend,” Ausable told him. “soon you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. Someday that paper may well affect the course of history. In that thought is drama, is there not?” As he spoke, Ausable closed the door behind him. Then he turned on the light. And as the light came on Fowler had first shock of the day. For halfway across the room, a small pistol in his hand, stood a man. Ausable blinked a few times. “Max,” he said, “You gave me quite a start. I thought you were in Berlin. What are you doing in my room?” Max was thin, not tall, and with a face that suggested the look of a fox. Except for the gun, he did not look very dangerous. “The report,” he said in a quiet voice. “The report that is being brought to you tonight about some new missiles. I thought I would take it from you. It will be safer in my hands than in yours.” Ausable moved to an armchair and sat down heavily. “I’m going to rise the devil with the management this time; I am angry,” he said firmly. “this is the second time in a month that somebody has gotten into my room off that balcony!” Fowler’s eyes went to the single window of the room. It was an ordinary window, with the black night outside. “Balcony?” Max asked. “no, I had a passkey. I did not know about the balcony, It could have saved me some trouble had I known about it.” “It’s not my balcony,” explained Ausable angrily. “it belongs to the next apartment. You see, this room used to be part of a large unit, and the next room had the balcony, which extends under my window now. you can get onto it from the empty room next door, and somebody did, last month. The management promised to block it off. But they haven’t.” Fowler was standing stiffly near Ausable. “Please sit down,” said Max to Fowler, waving his gun with a comm