张汉熙主编高级英语第一册第六单元情节介绍

张汉熙主编的高级英语第一册Unit Six Blackmail中Plot(情节描述)

In New Orleans，the Duke and the Duchess occupied a quite luxurious suite

in a large hotel. One Monday evening, when they drove back from a

gambling house, they knocked down a woman and her child. Although they

knew that they had killed both of them, they did not stop the car and just

drove away. This hit-n-run accident became sensational news to the

whole city. Late that evening, the hotel’s chief house detective,Ogilvie,

notice that the Duke and the Duchess were suspicious, so he went to check

their car and found that their car was busted. However, he came to talk

with the Duke and the Duchess instead of reporting what he had found to

the police. He promised to keep quiet about what he knew with a large sum

of money in return from the Duke and the Duchess. the Duke didn’t know

how to solve this problem, so he made his wife, a clever women, copy with

the situation. The Duchess first try tried to deny the fact that they killed

the woman and her child, but she had to admit it after the evidence was

shown. She realized that in order to get out of this mess, the car must be

driven out of the South where people were alerted about the hit-and-run

accident. So she offered to pay Ogilvie twice more than he had asked on

condition that he drove the car to Chicago up in the North. With the desire

for the money , the detective accepted the offer.