无人生还6

时间：2026-03-19 02:46:31

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General Macarthur looked out of the carriage window. The train was just

coming into Exeter, where he had to change. Damnable, these slow branch

line trains! This place, Soldier Island, was really no distance at all as the

crow flies.

He hadn’t got it clear who this fellow Owen was. A friend of Spoof¹ Leg-

gard’s, apparently—and of Johnnie Dyer’s.

‘—One or two of your old cronies are coming—would like

to have a talk over old times.’

Well, he’d enjoy a chat about old times. He’d had a fancy lately that fel-

lows were rather fighting shy of him. All owing to that damned rumour²!

By God, it was pretty hard—nearly thirty years ago now! Armitage had

talked, he supposed. Damned young pup! What did he know about it? Oh,

well, no good brooding about these things! One fancied things sometimes

—fancied a fellow was looking at you queerly.

This Soldier Island, now, he’d be interested to see it. A lot of gossip flying

about. Looked as though there might be something in the rumour that the

Admiralty or the War Office or the Air Force had got hold of it…

Young Elmer Robson, the American millionaire, had actually built the

place. Spent thousands on it, so it was said. Every mortal luxury…

Exeter! And an hour to wait! And he didn’t want to wait. He wanted to

get on…

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1 spoof
n.诳骗，愚弄，戏弄
参考例句：
The show was a spoof of college life.那戏是对大学生活的讽刺。 That is Tim Robbins's spoof documentary about a presidential campaign.那是蒂姆·罗宾斯关于总统选举的讽刺纪录片。

2 rumour
n.谣言，谣传，传闻
参考例句：
I should like to know who put that rumour about.我想知道是谁散布了那谣言。 There has been a rumour mill on him for years.几年来，一直有谣言产生，对他进行中伤。