body’s happy but the jailer, he won o bucks fet it it’s a swell jail now e clean about this urder you’ve had out here and we’ll call it sare”

阿赫恩盯著他，“天啊，傑克，也許你真的瘋了。”

ahearn stared at hi “jeez, jake, aybe you are nuts”

“得了，安迪，我過去幫過你忙。而且，我現在不為任何報紙工作了。我得到一個可靠的訊息，說你們這裡發生了一起沒有見報的兇殺案。”

，！

“e on, andy, i’ve done favors for you the past besides, i’ not workg for any newspaper now i got a reliable tip you’d had a hoicide out here that wasn’t breakg to prt”

“你從哪裡得到的訊息？”

“where did you t the tip?”

“一個我認識的人。” 傑克猶豫了一下，然後搖了搖頭。沒必要把馬龍牽扯進來。“一個不重要的人。”

“fellow i know” jake hesitated, then shook his head no e draggg alone to this “no one iportant”

“好吧，” 阿赫恩說，“如果你不想說，就不用說。但是我們這裡唯一的一起謀殺案是三個月前，一個暴徒在酒館鬥毆中腦袋被打破了。”

“all right,” ahearn said, “you don’t have to tell if you don’t want to but the only urder we’ve had out here was three onths ago when goon got his do split a tavern brawl”

“這是千真萬確的嗎？” 傑克問道。

“is that the honest-to-god?” jake deanded

“你覺得我會對你說謊嗎？” 安迪?阿赫恩用受傷的聲音問道。他又補充道，“見鬼，這裡一直很平靜，夥計們為了保持狀態都在互相逮捕。” 他給來訪者的杯子裡倒了一大杯杜松子酒。

“you don’t thk i’d lie to you?” andy ahearn asked a hurt voice he added, “hell, thgs have been iet out here the boys have been arrestg each other jt to keep practice” he poured a nero sg of g to his visitor’s gss

“謝謝。” 傑克說。

“thanks,” jake said

安迪?阿赫恩接著說，“如果你不相信，可以檢視這裡的每一份記錄。”

andy ahearn went on, “if you don’t believe it, you can look through