Chapter 10

Masters told Coke that Hugo owned a large garage. It was where the secret documents Hugo sold were kept. They got into Masters’ white Jaguar and drove there. It was almost evening when they got to the garage.

“Now tell me exactly where the documents and the microfilms are kept,” Coke said, “I’ll kill you here and now if you don’t answer!”

“They’re kept in Hugo’s office, in an ordinary file in his desk.”

Coke gave Kate the pistol. “Keep him here until I get back,” he said.

Coke managed to get into the dark garage. Suddenly someone seized him and knocked him out. He realized, just before he lost consciousness, that what had happened in Epping Forest was happening to him all over again.

When he came to again, he saw Kate tied to a chair. Hugo was shouting, “I said we were going to do the job properly this time!”

It seemed there was nothing he could do and nobody could help him.

Suddenly Baxter dropped through the sky-light. Three more policemen followed him. Baxter walked over to Hugo. “I’ve heard everything you’ve said.” Before Hugo could protest, he and the others were led away. “What we know now already proves you were innocent,” Baxter said to Coke.

Question: Do you think Coke was innocent or not?

Answer:

One or Two Points

Take a hairpin and open its points until they are four centimeters away from each other. Ask your friend to close his eyes and tell you if you are pressing one or two points of the hairpin against his arm. He will find with surprise that he can’t tell you that correctly. When you are pressing two points, he will feel them as one point.

Now close the hairpin until its points are only two millimeters away from each other. Put the points on your friend’s finger-tips and ask him the same question. Now he will be right. He will tell you correctly if you are pressing one or two points of the hairpin against his finger-tips.

This simple experiment shows that different parts of the body feel the points ofin a different way. You can, if you want, find out which parts of the body feel the points of pressure better and which feel them worse.

Try to complete the sentence by filling in the blank with one word.

Keys

chapter 10: He was innocent but framed up by the real criminals.(At the end of the story, we know it was not Coke but Hugo and Masters who sold military secrets to foreign countries. What the police knew already proved Coke was innocent.)

One or Two Points: pressure