Mr Jhonston was a rich old man. He lived in a beautiful house in the country with lots of servants, but his wife was dead, and he did not have any children.
Then he died suddenly, and people said, ‘His servants killed him, because they wanted his money.,
But the servant said, ‘No, he killed himself.’
The police came and asked the servants a lot of questions, and after a few weeks, there was a big trial. There were two famous lawyers and several important witnesses.
‘Tell me’ one of the lawyers said to a witness one day, ‘did Mr Jhonson often talk to himself when he was alone ?’
‘I don’t know,’ the witness answered at once.
‘You don’t know ?’ the lawyer repeated angrily. ‘You don’t know ?’ But you were his best friend, weren’t you ? Why don’t you know ?’
‘ Because I was never with him when he was alone,’ the witness answered.
Please answer these questions below.
1. What did people say when Mr Jhonsosn die ?
2. What did his servants say ?
3. What did the police do ?
4. What happened then ?
5. What did one of the lawyers say to the witness ?
6. What did the witness answer ?
7. What did the lawyer say then ?
8. And what did the witness answer at last?