Read the excerpt from "The Red-Headed League."Then Wilson told us that his assistant spent a lot of time in the cellar. When I saw that there was a bank right behind the store, I thought immediately of a tunnel. When Spaulding opened the door to the store with dirt on his knees, I knew I was right. Spaulding and Ross were digging a tunnel from the pawnbroker’s house to the bank.
Read the question.Does the story remind me of something in my own life?
Read the excerpt from "The Red-Headed League."We waited for a little over an hour, but it seemed much longer. We sat in the dark without moving. Suddenly my eyes saw a small light on the stone floor. Then the light grew bigger. And then, without any sound, a hole opened in the floor and a hand came through. A head came through next. A moment later, Vincent Spaulding and Duncan Ross were standing next to the hole.
Elijah read the word luxurious in a story. He did not know the meaning of the word. He did notice that it reminded him of the word luxury.
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