@O REDMI NOTE 9 PRO LORE Vel ONAL 2022/4/4 18:07some four years ago, and she gave me letters of introduction to some of the people here.” He made the last starement in a tone of distinct regret: “Then you know practically nothing about my aunt?” pursued the self-possessed young lady. ‘Only her name and addr admitted the caller, He was wondering whether Mrs Sappleton was in the married or widowed state. An undefinable something about the room seemed t, 8a masculine habitatior 4 ag just three\oe*2s igs said the child, “that would be years ago, since your “Her tragedy?” asked Framton; somehow in this restful country spot tragedies seemed out of plat Lorena tO “You may wonder why we keep t window wide open on an October .” said the niece, indicating q large French window that opened on tg a lawn quite warm for the time of the year.” said Framton, “but has that win got anything co do with the tragedy» Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and ig two young brothers went off for their day’ shooting, They nevgr came back, In ctossing thé moor to their favourite ipe shooting ground, they were all dh engulfed in a treacherous piece of bog had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without want Their bodies were never recovered. That was the dreadful part of it.” Here the childs voice lost its self-possessed note became falteringly human. “Poor aunt — always thinks that they will come back some day, they and the little brown that was lost with them, and walk in that window just as they used to do. is why the window is kept open evening till it is quite dust Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how» * | they went out, her husband with his white waterproof coat over his arm, and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing ‘Bertie, why ‘weakness human beings)© REDMI NOTES PROhat; the hall-door, the gravel-drive, and the _had seen a ghost.” front gate were dimly-noted stages in his “] expect it was headlong retreat. A cyclist coming along the spaniel,” said the the road had to run into the hedge to niece calmly; “he told avoid an imminent collision. me he had a horror “Here we are, my dear,” said the bearer of dogs. He was of the white waterproof coat coming in ‘once hunted into a through the window; “fairly muddy, but cemetery somewhere 7 most of it's dry. Who was that who bolted, . on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of outas we came up?” G9. stray dogs, and had to spend the night “A most extraordinary man, a Mr in a newly-dug grave with the creatures Nuttel” said Mrs Sappleton, “could only snarling and grinning and foaming just talk about his illnesses, and dashed off above him. Enough to make anyone lose _ without a word of goodbye or apology their nerve.” Romance at short notice was when you arrived. One would think he her speciality. Saki (H H Munro) = 3 Comprehension & ‘A Tick the correct options, 1. Framton’s sister gave him letters of introduction because she 2. thought he would never meet people otherwise. . thought the people there were nice. © could not introduce hit perso 4. had lived there four yours ve poy