馬龍探案卷三 之 錯誤的兇案 三十七

喬治?布蘭德往一杯蘇打水裡倒了雙份黑麥威士忌，夢幻般地看著它，說：“你怎麼知道所有這些的？”

e brand poured a double rye to a gss of seltzer, gazed at it dreaily, and said, “how did you know all that?”

“我不知道，” 馬龍立刻說。“我是邊編邊說的。但是該死，我總得告訴馮?弗拉納根點什麼。”

“i didn’t,” alone said proptly “i was akg it up as i went along but dan it, i had to tell von fnagan thg”

已經過了午夜。在第三街格斯的店裡的一個隔間裡有他們五個人：傑克、海倫、馬龍、喬治?布蘭德和莫娜?麥克萊恩。他們選擇格斯的店一部分是因為這裡離機場開車距離不遠，傑克和海倫要乘坐黎明的飛機（儘管馬龍發誓說有海倫開車的話，密爾沃基也不算遠），另一部分是因為海倫宣稱她喜歡格斯，哪兒也不想去。

it was past idnight there were five of the the booth g’s pce on 3rd street: jake, helene, a-lone, e brand, and ona ne they had selected g’s partly becae it was easy drivg distance fro the airport fro which jake and helene were to take the dawn pne (though alone swore that ilwaukee would be easy drivg distance with helene at the wheel) and partly becae helene decred that she liked g and refed to go anywhere else

“你是說，” 莫娜?麥克萊恩說，“艾倫什麼也沒告訴你？”

“you an,” ona ne said, “that ellen didn’t tell you anythg?”

“一點也沒說，” 馬龍愉快地說。

“not a thg,” alone said cheerfully

“但是那個速記員的筆記本，” 傑克說，“上面有記錄。你是怎麼做到的？”

“but that stenographer’s notebook,” jake said, “with notes it how did you ana that?”

馬龍說：“你們兩個出去的時候，我叫來了瑪吉，讓她趕緊到辦公室，我一邊講她一邊記下來。” 他把他的酒一飲而盡，微微顫抖了一下，然後欽佩地說：“我什麼都能想到。”

alone said, “while you o were out, i got hold of aggie and had her e down to the office a hurry and take it all down as i told it to her” he poured his drk down his thr