Ever since Jonathan had set up the house in Compton Street, he had looked after it very carefully. Before he left the house in the morning, he carefully closed all the doors downstairs, opened some windows to let the air in and locked the front gate.  1 Jonathan did was tidy and orderly.  

    One summer evening Jonathan returned home 2 at five minutes to seven exactly. When he opened the front gate, he immediately noticed something strange. There was a heavy footprint in the soil in one of the flower bods. Jonathan was just going to blame(责怪)the milkman or the postman when he noticed that one of the curtains in the front room downstairs was not in its usual place. That was too strange！Jonathan 3 left anything out of place.  

He walked up to the front door and opened it quietly. He listened carefully for a few minutes, but he could hear nothing. The front room door was half open. Jonathan thought about it carefully, 4 if he had forgotten to close it that morning. He had never forgotten before. He looked inside the room. The shadow(影子)of a man was clearly reflected on(映在)the far wall in the evening sunlight. He had been standing 5 the door since Jonathan's return. Jonathan shut the door quickly and turned the key. Then he picked up the telephone in the hall and called the police.

    The thief tried to climb through a window to get out, bat Jonathan had expected that. He 6 him with his umbrella, holding it as a sword(剑). Three minutes later the police arrived there. Jonathan was a little angry that he had to have dinner later than usual, but on the whole he felt quite pleased with himself.  

    Henley was a painter. He was going to hold an art exhibition, but he was never a confident person. He was happy to leave all the arrangements for the exhibition to his agent, a young man called Green, who had good ability in organization. Green went to Henley's studio(画室)and, with the help of Henley's wife, chose the pictures for the exhibition. He hired(租用)a hall and watched the workers hanging up all the pictures chosen. Most important of all, he checked carefully that all the invitations went to the right people: critics(评论家), reporters and of course people with money to spend on the paintings.  

    "There's nothing to worry about." Green said to Henley during the exhibition, "Everything is going well." Henley was pleased, but still felt too shy to meet his public.  

   Soon (Green came to him again. "One picture especially attracted attention." Green told him. He looked up his list. "Number thirty-seven. It did not have a name, so your wife and I decided to call it 'Midnight' because all the colours are very dark. "

    Henley was confused by Green's description and couldn't remember which picture he was talking about, but he said nothing. When everyone had left, he went out to see by himself the painting which had attracted so much attention. He laughed so much that Green came over to see what was the matter. At last Henley stopped laughing and told him that one of his son's paintings had been hung up by mistake.

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