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II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы. 1. Why did the narrator walk along the seafront for about an hour? 2. Why was the narrator sure that he had never met the man with a newspaper before? 3. What was the man with a newspaper puzzled by? 4. Why did the detective follow the narrator? III. Восполните пропущенную часть предложения. 1. The man had a newspaper open in front of him which____________ 2. The detective showed the owner of the restaurant____________ 3. The narrator thought he was lucky to come to a restaurant where №1 Three young men were playing with a gun in a street in a quiet area of the town after dark when one of them fired it by mistake without aiming it at anything. The bullet broke a window in an old lady's house. The young men made off at once when they saw the damage they had done, but the old lady looked out of a window when she heard the explosion, and she recognized one of them as the son of a man and a woman who lived not far from her. The old lady complained to the police, and a detective came to her house. The old lady gave him a detailed account of everything that had happened, and then the detective asked her if she knew where the young man lived. The old lady told him that too, so the detective went to the young man's house. He and his companions tried to hide, but the detective found them and the gun and took them to the police station. There his chief officer questioned the young men to find out which of them owned the gun, but none of them was willing to say. The young man who owned the gun did not dare to admit that he did, because he did not have a licence for it. At last the chief officer decided to put an end to the conversation, so he turned to the detective and demanded to know whether he had got an officer's permission to take the gun away from the young man who owned it. 183
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