敏读故事记单词雅思词汇;A clean escape一逃了之

 A clean escape
       Butch had been blundering with the blueprints of the factory looking for an exit when an explosion in the bleaching room blasted him out of the main hall, through a window and into a patch of rose blossoms. As he lay there bleeding only slightly he realized that he had been blessed by the blast; in the blink of an eye he had been thrown from the scene of the crime that he had committed. He was also unburned by the hot biodegradable bleach that had covered his body. Bless you St. Peter, he thought.
      He quickly moved to blend into the vegetation even more. Policemen had arrived and the vegetation blocked them from seeing Butch. Thank God the roses were in bloom. Without the blooming flowers he would surely have been seen. They didn' t even hesitate as they looked in his direction with blank expressions.
      Butch stared, still amazed at his luck. He was no longer bitter at his employers. There would be no way they could blame him for the explosion, it wasn't his fault. And the fire it had started was sure to destroy all evidence of his stealing valuable stock from the accountants' office. It had not been a bilateral decision with his wife to steal those documents, but Butch realized that what was once a bleak future was now, because of a bizarre accident, like a bill of freedom for Butch He would be able to walk away rich, innocent of any suspicion and no longer bound to work with an employer that had almost ruined his life and marriage.
      Maybe he wouldn't even tell his wife that he had succeeded....