新概念英語(yǔ)第三冊(cè)（美音版）The death of a ghost

[ti:未知] [ar:] [al:] [by:https://www.lrc.com.cn] [00:01.54]Lesson 30 [00:03.23] The death of a ghostWhy did the two brothers keep the secret? [00:05.06]For years,villagers believed that Endley farm was haunted. [00:09.39]The farm was owned by two brothers,Joe and Bob Cox. [00:13.32]They employed a few farmhands,but no one was willing to work there long. [00:18.51]Every time a worker gave up his job,he told the same story. [00:22.66]Farm labourers said that they always woke up [00:25.86]to find that work had been done overnight. [00:29.42]Hay had been cut and cowsheds had been cleaned. [00:32.15]A farm worker,who stayed up all night, [00:35.08]claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn in the moonlight. [00:38.52]In time,it became an accepted fact [00:41.27]that the Cox brothers employed a conscientious ghost [00:44.78]that did most of their work for them. [00:47.75]No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen. [00:52.89]This was indeed the case. [00:55.04]A short time ago,villagers were astonished to learn that the ghost of Endley had died. [01:01.16]Everyone went to the funeral,for the 'ghost' was none other than Eric Cox, [01:06.16]a third brother who was supposed to have died as a young man. [01:10.04]After the funeral,Joe and Bob revealed a secret [01:13.55]which they had kept for over fifty years. [01:16.79]Eric had been the eldest son of the family, [01:19.34]very much older than his two brothers. [01:22.22]He had been obliged to join the army during the Second World War. [01:23.40]As he hated army life,he decided to desert his regiment. [01:27.43]When he learnt that he would be sent abroad, [01:29.80]he returned to the farm and his father hid him until the end of the war. [01:34.30]Fearing the authorities,Eric remained in hiding after the war as well. [01:39.13]His father told everybody that Eric had been killed in action. [01:43.08]The only other people who knew the secret were Joe and Bob. [01:47.20]They did not even tell their wives. [01:49.50]When their father died they thought it their duty to keep Eric in hiding. [01:53.97]All these years, Eric had lived as a recluse. [01:57.13]He used to sleep during the day and work at night, [02:00.01]quite unaware of the fact that he had become the ghost of Endley. [02:04.06]When he died,however, his brothers found it impossible to keep the secret any longer.

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