The Stolen White Elephant

     "All goes well for two weeks — then my problems begin. I get a phone call in the middle of the night: the white elephant is stolen." (p.12)

     I read the book "The stolen white elephant" recently. The setting of this story is not now. One day in old days, the white elephant was sent to the Queen of England as a royal present from Siam (Siam is called Thailand now). Although the white elephant was not well, gradually became to be well by taking rest in New York, so things seemed to go well. However the elephant was stolen two weeks later and they started to find him cooperating with Inspector Blunt. It was more difficult than they expected to find him, so no body could not find. Then the deliverer had to raise the reward to seventy- five thousand dollars. It was a lot of money for him, but he did it because he wanted to find him. Three weeks later since the problem had happen, the Inspector seeked help from the thieves, so the deliverer became to have to pay much higher reward. He thought that makes him penniless, but he did that. Finally, the police found the white elephant, but he was dead because of hunger. The deliverer was sad to see the death and he lost his job and all money. However he admired Inspector Blunt as the greatest detective in the world becouse he never gave up even when the deliverer was about to give up finding the white elephant.

Twain Mark. (2007). The stolen white elephant. Helbling Languages.