馬龍探案卷四 之 正確的兇案 八

馬龍發現海倫在他的辦公室裡踱步。

alone found helene pacg the floor his office

“你遲到了十分鐘。” 她坐在桌子上。

“you’re ten utes te” she sat down on the desk

“你應該慶幸我能來就不錯了。” 他告訴她。“馮?弗拉納根想把我當作重要證人扣留。”

“you ought to be gd i got here at all,” he told her “von fnagan wanted to hold as a aterial witness”

他把帽子和大衣扔在一把椅子上，坐在辦公桌前看著她。她有一種奇特的軍人氣質，她那件緊身的藏青色外套上，兩排巨大的閃亮紐扣整齊地排列著；她的帽子仿照澳大利亞士兵戴的那種，深藍色的氈帽頂上有一條鮮紅的繩子。她那精緻的臉蛋總是很蒼白，現在幾乎沒有血色；她的眼睛周圍有淡淡的陰影。

he tossed his hat and overat on a chair, sat down at his desk, and looked at her she had a curioly ilitary air, enoro shy buttons arched o rows down her close-fittg, navy-be at; her hat, patterned after those worn by atralian ldiers, had a bright red rd around its dark-be felt crown her delicate featured face, always pale, seed alost lorless; there were fat shadows around her eyes

“我想你沒有收到傑克的訊息，是嗎？”

“i don’t suppose you’ve heard fro jake, have you?”

馬龍看起來很驚訝，用一個問題回答了她。“為什麼？你期望我收到了嗎？”

alone looked surprised and answered that with a estion “why? did you expect to?”

“沒有。” 她聳了聳肩。“我不知道。我只是覺得也許你有。”

“no” she shrugd her shoulders “i don’t know i jt thought aybe you had”

“別擔心傑克。” 馬龍告訴她。“他可能正玩得很開心呢。”

“don’t worry about jake,” alone told her “he’s probably havg a wonderful ti”

有那麼一瞬間，她的眼睛裡閃著怒火。

for jt an stant her eyes bzed

馬龍決定不利用這個優勢。“你找到莫娜的謀殺案了嗎？”

alone decided not to press his advanta “have you found ona’s urder yet?”