馬龍探案卷五 之 盛怒的審判 六

約翰?j?馬龍乘坐公共汽車於 9 點 23 分抵達威斯康星州的傑克遜，他是一個疲憊、炎熱、衣衫不整且非常惱怒的人。結果發現每天只有一趟火車開往威斯康星州的傑克遜，而且那趟火車早上 6 點 10 分到達，途中需要換乘三次，換乘期間等待的時間從 10 分鐘到 1 個小時不等。去威斯康星州的傑克遜並不比去南極夫人小美國難多少。

john j alone arrived by b jackn, wisns, at ne enty-three, a tired, hot, rupled, and very irritated an it had developed that only one tra a day went to jackn, wisns, and that arrived at six-ten the orng, and volved three chans, with waits of fro ten utes to an hour on the way jackn, wisns, was not uch harder to t to than little arica

一路上，他一直幻想著一個寧靜、平和的小鎮來支撐自己，月光下，有寬闊、幽暗的草坪，瀰漫著一種寧靜祥和的氛圍。他在戈利特藥店前下了公共汽車，卻發現自己彷彿置身於一個馬戲團之中。

all the way he had staed hiself by dreag of a iet, peaceful little town, oonlit, with wide, shadowy wns, and a neral air of serenity and cal he stepped off the b front of gollett’s drugstore to fd hiself what appeared to be the iddle of a circ

傑克遜的主要街道有三個街區長，幾乎有半個街區寬。此刻，商店門面和路燈閃耀著耀眼的燈光，每一寸可用的空間都擠滿了停放的汽車。

jackn’s a street was three blocks long and alost half a block wide at the ont it was a bze of lights that shone fro store fronts and street ps, and every avaible ch of space was jad with parked cars

下午的暴風雨對氣溫沒有產生持久的影響，只是讓空氣更加潮溼悶熱。耀眼的燈光似乎吸引了傑克遜縣範圍內的每一隻飛蟲。

the afternoon’s stor had had no peranent effect on the teperature, but only added a sticky dapness to the air the bzg lights seed to have attracted every flyg sect with the liits of jackn unty

有一小群人站在人行道上，看著公共汽車進站。馬龍在人群中央看到了海倫，她身材高挑苗條，穿著一件白色亞麻連衣裙。當他走近她時，覺得她的臉色比平時蒼白了一