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牆上沒有掛畫，而是掛著一些有鋸齒狀線條的圖表，像心電圖一樣。一扇門上寫著“私人”，另一扇門上寫著“實驗室”和“小心”字樣，兩側各有一個閃電標誌。馬龍本能地、不安地環顧四周，尋找隱藏的錄音機和高壓線。

on the wall, lieu of pictures, were charts with zigzag les, like cardiogras one door bore the lend private, another boratory and the word caution, fnked by o lightng bolts alone looked around stctively and unfortably for hidden dictaphones and high-volta wires

“我們從這裡進去。”海倫說著，朝標有“私人”的門走去。

“we go here,” helene said, ovg toward the door arked private

“等一下。”傑克說，“亨尼西醫生知道他在給這個人做什麼測試嗎？”

“jt a ute,” jake said “does dr hennessey know what he’s testg this guy for?”

她搖搖頭。“他也不知道這個人不是完全清醒的。”她開啟了門。

she shook her head “he doesn’t know he isn’t perfectly ber, either” she opened the door

裡面的房間同樣寬敞，但一點也不寧靜。牆壁上掛著厚厚的黑布，但室內裝飾僅此而已。各種電器雜亂無章地堆在一起，就像魯布·戈德堡的漫畫和好萊塢恐怖電影的結合。

the ner roo was likewise spacio, but far fro subdued the walls were hung with heavy bck cloth, but terior deration had sped there electrical gadts of all kds were piled pell-ll on of each other, like a bation of a rube goldberg cartoon and a hollywood horror picture

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馬龍肯定以為會看到鮑里斯·卡洛夫（1931年出演弗蘭肯斯坦的演員）從黑色窗簾後走出來。然而，出現的是亨尼西醫生。他是一位頭髮灰白、身著灰色西裝的紳士，看起來很像《時代》雜誌科學版面上的肖像，有著令人安心的醫生風範，除了眼中閃爍的探尋光芒，沒有任何東西能讓人聯想到他那奇特的職業。這有點像門上畫的那隻眼睛。

alone defitely expected boris karloff to appear through the bck curtas stead, it was dr hennessey he was a gray-haired, gray-suited ntlean, lookg not unlike the portraits the science sector of ti agaze, wi