馬龍探案卷三 之 錯誤的兇案 三十三

傑克和海倫焦急地看著小個子律師把那個珍貴的盒子放在他的桌子上，仔細檢查了鎖，然後開始在一個書桌抽屜裡翻找。他從裡面拿出兩塊髒兮兮的手帕、一小堆廢紙、一個標有 “待回覆信件” 的硬紙板資料夾、一個空瓶子和一張豐滿年輕女子的照片，上面寫著 “你的親愛的路易絲” 之後，他找到了他要找的東西：一個小皮製工具包，有點像修甲工具包。

jake and helene watched anxioly as the little wyer id the precio box on his desk, exaed the lock closely, and began pag through a desk drawer after takg out o iled handkerchiefs, a sall pile of wastepaper, a cardboard file arked letters to answer, an epty bottle, and a photograph of a ppish young woan scribed “your darlg louise,” he found what he was lookg for: a little leather kit, not unlike a anicure kit

他從裡面拿出一把小而閃亮的工具，一個一個地檢查。他把六七個放在盒子旁邊的桌子上，其餘的小心地放回皮製工具包裡。然後，他先用一個工具，然後又換另一個，開始小心翼翼地、極其謹慎地探測金屬盒子的鎖。

fro it he took a handful of sall, shg tools and exaed the one by one a half dozen or he id on the desk beside the box, the rest he put carefully back the leather kit then, first with one tool and then another, he began probg the lock of the tal box, delicately and with exisite care

房間裡死一般寂靜。看著馬龍，傑克感到興奮得頭皮發麻。在那個深綠色的金屬盒子裡曾經有莫娜?麥克萊恩謀殺約書亞?岡布里爾和他妹妹的動機。也許它還在那裡。槍已經到了他們手中，而此時馮?弗拉納根正在對槍進行測試並追查其所有權。隨時馮?弗拉納根都會打電話告知他的發現。隨時馬龍都會把那個盒子開啟。到那時這個案子就完整了。那個看起來無害的盒子幾乎就像是持有賭場契約一樣。

the roo was deathly still watchg alone, jake felt his scalp crklg with excitent side that dark-green tal box had been ona ne’s otive for urderg joshua gubril and his sister aybe it was still there the gun had already e to their hands and right at this ont von fnagan was havg it tested and its owners