現在你明白我為什麼想辭掉這份工作，在某個地方買一份小鄉村報紙，然後安定下來了吧？”

“this rt of thg,” the police officer repeated, poundg on his desk “like none of those people sayg they knew that guy yesterday over the ue, when rs ne at least t have known hi it’s bad enough to have to be a p but when people go and do these thgs jt to ake it tough for —” he paed and looked at helene “now do you see why i want to it this job and buy a little untry newspaper pce and settle down?”

“我一直都理解。”她同情地說，“你選好報紙了嗎？”

“i’ve always understood,” she said sypathetically “have you picked out a paper yet?”

他感激地對她笑了笑。“我看中了幾家。有一家在愛荷華州的一個小鎮上，人口一千二。報紙的名字是《企業報》。那個名字有點吸引我。”他深吸一口氣，引用了一段對這家報紙在當地的地位和潛在利潤的熱情描述。

he siled at her gratefully “i’ve got y eye on a uple one’s a little town iowa, popution elve hundred na of the paper’s the enterprise thg about that na appeals to ” he drew a long breath and oted a glog description of the newspaper’s standg the unity and its potential profits

小主，這個章節後面還有哦，，後面更精彩！

傑克哼了一聲。“如果這是家這麼好的報紙，為什麼老闆要賣掉它呢？”

jake grunted “if it’s such a swell newspaper, why does the owner want to sell it?”

“他從商界退休去當警察局長。”馮·弗拉納根告訴他。

“he’s retirg fro bess to bee chief of police,” von fnagan told hi

“嗯。”海倫緩過氣來說，“這是詩意的正義。”

“well,” helene said, when she’d caught her breath, “poetic jtice”

“任何想當警察的人都是瘋子，所以這個人可能還真有點詩意。” 馮?弗拉納根說。

“anyone who wants to be a policean,” von fnagan said, “is nuts, probably this guy is poetic at that”

馬龍到了，