“她或许会知道。” 海伦恭敬地说。“那你那时离开了马略卡岛吗？”
“She might at that,” Helene said reverently. “Did you leave Majorca then?”
“是的，我离开了。但我不知道该去哪儿。当然，有很多钱。最后我去了巴黎，然后战争爆发了，我遇到了很多人。其中一个是洛特斯。后来巴黎被占领了，我离开了，离开的时候遇到了很多麻烦。我记得我走了好几英里，抱着一只被机枪子弹打伤腿的女人的狗，最后我到了这里。” 他停顿了一会儿，然后说，“我想就是在那段时间里我开始喝酒的。我不记得具体是什么时候了。” 他皱着眉头说，“弗朗西斯卡会把这些记得更清楚。她的记忆力非常好。不管怎样，我坐快船到了这个国家，我想起了莫娜?麦克莱恩，所以我从纽约给她发了电报，她邀请我去看她，然后我就来了。我想就这些了。”
“Yes, I did. But I didn’t know where to go. There was plenty of money, of course. Finally I went to Paris, and there was the war, and I met a lot of people. One of them was Lotus. Then Paris was taken, and I left, and there was a lot of trouble getting away. I remember walking for miles and miles carrying some woman’s dog that had its leg broken by a machine-gun bullet, and finally I got over here.” He paused a moment and then said, “I guess it was somewhere along in there that I started drinking. I don’t just remember when.” He scowled and said, “Francesca would have remembered all this better. She had a wonderful memory. Anyway I got over to this country on the Clipper, and I remembered Mona McClane, so I wired her from New York, and she invited me to e and visit her and here I am. I guess that’s everything.”
“还有一个问题。” 马龙非常温柔地说。“你多大了？”
“One question more,” Malone said very gently. “How old are you?”
“我二十二岁。但几个月后我就二十三岁了。为什么问这个？”
“I’m twenty-two. But I’ll be twenty-three in a few months. Why?”
“我只是想知道。” 马龙用一种奇怪的温柔声音说。
“I just wanted to know,” Malone said, in a curiously soft voice.
“这就说到现在了。” 海伦说，“你来芝加哥住在莫娜?麦克莱恩家。你从没见过也没听说过杰拉尔德?图伊兹。你对除夕夜被杀的那个人一无所知。然而，在昨晚一个古怪的时刻，你向我吐露说你杀了他们两个。”
“That brings us up to the present,” Helene said. “You came to Chicago to stay at Mona McClane’s. You’d never met nor heard of Gerald Tuesday. You don’t know anything about the man who was killed on New Year’s Eve. Yet in a cockeyed moment last night you confided to me that you’d slaughtered both of them.”
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