馬龍探案卷四 之 正確的兇案 三十二
芝加哥最受歡迎的景點，湖濱大道上的老麥克萊恩大廈燈火輝煌。從稍遠的地方看，它就像一張裝飾性聖誕賀卡上的房子。下午的大雪在草坪上留下了巨大的白色雪堆，每一處簷口和裂縫都被一層柔軟的淺色積雪勾勒出來。現在天空晴朗，星光燦爛。在它下面，湖濱大道正在從積雪中清理出來。
chicago’s favorite show pce, the old ne ansion on ke shore drive, was a bze of lights fro a little distance it looked like a hoe on an ornantal christas card the afternoon’s heavy snowfall had left great white drifts on the wn and outled every rnice and crevice with a ft, pale dtg the sky was clear now and brilliant with stars below it, ke shore drive was diggg itself out of the snow
海倫偷偷看了一眼馬龍。這個小律師臉色蒼白；事實上，他看起來快要累垮了。她希望他能告訴她他心裡在想什麼，但她知道問了也沒用。不管是什麼，他一方面對自己要做的事情感到興奮，另一方面又對必須這麼做感到不快。
helene stole a gnce at alone the little wyer was gray-faced; deed, he seed close to exhation she wished he would tell her what he had d, but she knew there was no e askg estions whatever it ight be, he was, at the sa ti, excited about what he was gog to do and unhappy over the necessity of dog it
儘管麥克萊恩大廈燈火輝煌，她看到這座大廈時還是微微顫抖了一下。會有不愉快的事情發生，而她不知道會是什麼。
for all the welg lights of the ne ansion, she shivered a little at the sight of it thg unpleasant was gog to happen, and she didn’t know what it was
“我希望傑克在這兒。”她輕聲說道，聲音剛好能讓馬龍聽到。
“i wish jake were here,” she said under her breath, jt loud enough for alone to catch
“我也希望如此。”律師嚴峻地說，“如果傑克找不到正確的行李寄存櫃，不能及時帶著裡面的東西趕到這裡，整個事情就會搞砸。”
“ do i,” the wyer said grily “if jake doesn’t fd the right gga locker and arrive here with the ntents ti, the