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3. «Let's start at the beginning... when you sent me to Epping Forest that night», Coke said in a flat, 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».
«Why did you involve me in all this?»
«The police suspected someone. We wanted to make them think you were the spy. We knew they would if
they found your dead body in a car after a crash with all sorts of secrets in it».
«My dead body?»
«Hugo thought the crash would kill you». Masters said.
«And why aren't you still in the army? You'd be a lot more useful to Hugo if you were», Coke went on.
«It became too dangerous. Anyway, he still uses me».
«How?» Coke asked.
«We hide microfilms of secret documents in the antique weapons I send abroad. The people we send them
to pose as foreign collectors». Coke had one last question. It was the most important. «Where's Hugo now?
Take me to him!»
15.5.2. Choose the correct answer. Don't use the text.
1. Masters had sent Coke to Epping Forest because...
a) he wanted him to meet the informer;
b) he wanted him to be killed;
c) he wanted him to receive some secret documents.
2. Nobody believed Coke because...
a) he was drunk;
b) the files had been found in his car;
c) he had sold secrets for money. 3. Hugo planned to kill Coke because...
a) he wanted the police think he was a spy;
b) he knew too many secrets;
c) police suspected him.
15.5.3. Answer the teacher's questions. (Books closed.)
1. What were Coke and Masters trying to do five years earlier?
2. What happened when Coke was waiting in Epping Forest?
3. What did the police find in the car and in the bank?
4. What did Coke find out about Hugo?
5. What did the criminals want police to think?
6. How did Hugo use Masters?
15.5.4. Try to tell the main events of this extract in 3-4 sentences.
15.6. Scanning practice
15.6.1. Read the questions. Be sure you've got them well in mind.
1. What did a Spaniard do?
2. Where did the Indian apply?
3. What kind of a man was the judge of the court?
4. What did the Indian invent?
5. What did the Indian tell the judge?
15.6.2. Start scanning the text. Don't fail to note your time.
Bribery stopped
It happened in America not long after its colonization by the Spaniards. A Spaniard stole an Indian's horse.
The Indian however found the thief and demanded the horse to be returned to him, but the Spaniard refused to
do it. The Indian applied to the court and brought witnesses who could testify that it was his horse. But the
judge of the court was a bad man and used to take bribes from the parties who came to the court. The Indian
knew this, and he invented a trick how to deceive the judge. Before going to the court on the day of the trial, he
took a big stone and put it under his arm. The judge at once noticed that the Indian had something under his arm
and decided the case in the Indian's favour. He ordered the horse to be returned to the Indian and punished the
Spaniard for theft. After the trial, when the judge and the Indian were left alone, the judge asked the former
what it was under his arm and whom it was meant for. The Indian showed him the stone and told it was meant