he rubbed his brow “his na—let’s see i’ not very failiar with arican actors, you know” he thought for a ute and then ntioned a na that ade the all blk “and iss white, and pendley tidewell, and a young chap fro the east who ade angry hangg around lot”

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“你們去了哪裡？” 馬龍問道。

“where did you go?” alone asked

“我們在某個俱樂部吃了晚飯，然後在賭場喝了幾杯，接著去了謝爾曼酒店的黑豹廳。我想那就是它的名字，對吧？” 他又皺起眉頭。“那時我有點暈乎乎的。很奇怪，但我不記得我確切是什麼時候開始不記得事情的了，如果你明白我的意思的話。有晚餐，有黑豹廳，然後事情就變得模糊了。我記得在一輛計程車裡吻了洛特斯，但我想那是在從俱樂部出來的路上。還有就是我一個人在某個奇怪的酒吧裡。就這些。” 他沉默了一會兒。“不，還有別的事情，但我就是想不起來。我不知道那是什麼。但那是很可怕、很恐怖的事情。”

“we had dner at cb, and then sped at the caso for a few drks, and then we went to the panther roo at the sheran i guess that’s the na, isn’t it?” he wrkled his brow aga “i was a little dizzy by that ti it’s funny, but i can’t reber the exact ti when i sped reberg, if you know what i an there was dner, and the panther roo, and then thgs t vague i reber kissg lot a cab, but i guess that was on the way down fro the cb thg about beg stran bar all by yself that’s all” he was silent for a ont “no, there is thg else, but i can’t jt put y fr on it i don’t know what it was but it was thg horrible, ghastly”

“那就是謀殺。” 海倫告訴他。

“that was the urder,” helene told hi

他虛弱地對她笑了笑。“但是，我親愛的年輕女士，我這輩子從沒認識過符合馬龍先生給我描述的人。從來沒有。”

he siled wanly at her “but, y dear young dy, i never knew anyone who answered the description r alone gave never y life”

“好吧，” 馬龍溫和地說，“別想了。那昨天呢？”

“all right,” alone s