每天读一篇英语小故事：Body in a Barrel (1)

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　　George Gobel thinks that he might have helped dump his own sister’s body.
George told police that recently his brother-in-law Russell had asked him to
help move a big metal barrel out of his house. “I’ll buy you a case of Bud,”
Russell promised. The barrel was in the master bedroom. George remembers that
when he was looking at the barrel, he happened to ask Russell, “Where’s Staci?”
Russell told him that she was out shopping.
        　　Oddly, the barrel was warm to the touch. “What’s in here?” George asked.
Russell said it was just some old rags and engine parts. He wanted to get rid of
them because he had heard that spontaneous combustion could occur. George said
that he thought it might be occurring at that very moment.
        　　The barrel was very heavy. He asked Russell if the whole engine was inside
the barrel. Russell just grunted. Once they got it outside, they rolled it to
the back of Russell’s pickup truck. George helped Russell position a metal
motorcycle ramp behind the truck, and they pushed the barrel slowly up into the
bed of the pickup. When they finished, George told Russell that this was a “two
case” move, meaning two cases of Budweiser. Russell told him no problem.