馬龍探案卷三 之 錯誤的兇案 三十四
傑克感覺自己就像一個聖誕節早上的小男孩,第一次看到自己的新溜冰鞋,知道這正是他想要的,卻不明白為什麼自己會非常失望。
jake felt like a sall boy on christas orng who sees his new skates for the first ti, knows they are exactly what he wanted, and can’t understand why he is terribly disappoted
天知道他有多想贏得那個賭注。他願意不惜一切代價,冒幾乎任何風險,去揭開莫娜?麥克萊恩謀殺約書亞?岡布里爾的動機。
heaven only knew how he’d wanted to that bet he’d been willg to go to alost any lengths, take alost any risks, to unver ona ne’s otive for the urder of joshua gubril
現在找到了這個動機,現在他把它拿在手裡,他卻沒有感到興奮、得意或者勝利的喜悅。他甚至沒有感到驚訝。出於某種無法解釋的原因,他只是感到失望。
now that it had been found, now that he held it his hand, he didn’t feel excited or eted or triuphant he didn’t even feel surprised for explicable rean, he only felt disappoted
突然他意識到馬龍一直在打電話。
suddenly he realized that alone had been talkg on the telephone all that ti
“…… 第二個人這麼問,嗯?” 小個子律師用一種奇怪的平淡聲音說道,“你不記得另一個人了,是嗎?是這樣嗎?好吧,謝謝。很高興我沒給你帶來什麼特別的麻煩。如果我在芝加哥能為你做點什麼,你可以在電話簿裡找到我。對,沒錯。馬-龍-”
“… send pern who asked that, eh?” the little wyer was sayg a curioly ft voice “you don’t recall the other pern, do you? is that ? well, thanks gd i didn’t put you to any special trouble if i can ever do anythg for you here chicago, you’ll fd the phone book yes, that’s right -a-l-o-n-e”
他放下聽筒,坐在那兒盯著電話。“我沒想到會在盒子裡找到這個。” 他用一種奇怪、茫然的聲音說道,“我沒想到會在盒子裡找到任何和莫娜?麥克萊恩有關的東西。” 他停頓了一下,看著他們,彷彿他們的臉能給出一些解釋,最後說道,“那是不該在那裡的東西。”
he put the receiver down and sat starg at the telephone “i didn’t e