馬龍探案卷四 之 正確的兇案 四

“但是你不能離開傑克。” 馬龍愚蠢地說。“你們才剛結婚。”

“but you can’t have left jake,” alone said stupidly “you’ve jt arried hi”

“我必須離開他才能離開他。” 海倫冷淡地說。“而且我已經離開了他。” 她坐在桌子的一角，點了一根菸。

“i had to, order to be able to leave hi,” helene said ldly “and i have left hi” she sat down on a rner of the desk and lit a cigarette

“為什麼？”

“why?”

“我不會告訴你的。” 她的臉頰開始恢復了一點血色。“但不是因為你所想的那些原因。”

“i’ daned if i’ll tell you” a little lor began to e back to her cheeks “but it wasn’t for any of the reans you’re thkg about”

馬龍急忙說：“當然不是。” 他在口袋裡摸索著找雪茄，最後找到了一根，點燃後說：“你怎麼會身無分文呢？還是說你也不會告訴我這個原因？”

alone said hastily, “of urse not” he fubled through his pockets for a cigar, fally found one, lit it, and said, “how e you’re broke, or are you daned if you’ll tell that, either?”

“這是我離開傑克的部分原因。你剛才說這兒有喝的嗎？”

“that’s part of the rean why i left jake did you say there was a drk the hoe?”

馬龍在壁櫥裡的一頂舊草帽下找到了另一個杯子，擦了擦，拿出一瓶黑麥威士忌，把它平分到兩個杯子裡。他看得出這不夠。想了一會兒，他拿起電話，撥了一個號碼，說：“路易？我是馬龍。馬上給我送兩夸脫黑麥威士忌來。什麼？哦，是嗎？我肯定是忘了。我馬上給你寄張支票。快點送黑麥威士忌來。”

alone located another gss under an old straw hat the closet, dted it, got the bottle of rye, and divided it to o eal parts he uld see it wasn’t gog to be enough after a ont’s reflection he picked up the phone, dialed a nuber, and said, “louie? alone speakg send over a uple of arts of rye, right away what’s that? oh, is it? it t have slipped y d i’ll send you a check right away hurry up with the rye”

他猛地掛