The county clerk shook his head. “Impossible. One of those people? Absurd.” He looked indignantly at Jake, who shrugged his shoulders and looked away.
“你得承认是有人开枪打了他。” 海伦说。
“You’ll have to admit that somebody shot him,” Helene said.
菲尔?史密斯宽容地看着她。“我亲爱的年轻女士 ——”
Phil Smith looked at her indulgently. “My dear young lady -”
大厅里有点骚动，其中一扇大门砰地响了一声。
There was a little motion in the hall as one of the big doors banged.
“查理?豪森来了，” 巴顿宣布，松了一口气。
“Charlie Hausen’s here,” Buttonholes announced, with a sigh of relief.
海伦正要跟着他们走进走廊，但杰克抓住了她的胳膊。
Helene started to follow them into the corridor, but Jake caught her arm.
“别着急，” 他建议道。“我们就坐着别动，等验尸官检查完。”
“Take it easy,” he advised. “We’ll just sit tight till the coroner gets through.”
“然后呢，还是你打算走一步看一步？”
“And then what, or are you going to make it up as you go along?”
“然后，” 杰克坚定地说，“就该告诉治安官他不能再把我们留在这里了。”
“Then,” Jake said firmly, “it’ll be time to tell the sheriff he can’t keep us here any longer.”
“那太好了，” 她说，“只要治安官同意你的说法。”
“That’s wonderful,” she said, “if only the sheriff agrees with you.”
她沉默了一会儿。杰克钦佩地看着她。她看起来完全就是她本来的样子，一个初次进入社交界的女继承人。每次他想到她爱上并嫁给了他，都觉得这仍然是个奇迹。
She was silent for a moment. Jake stared at her admiringly. She looked exactly like what she was, a debutante heiress. Her falling in love and marrying him was still a miracle every time he thought of it.
“很奇怪我们没听到枪声。” 她突然说。
“It’s funny we didn’t hear the shot,” she said suddenly.
“我们在楼下，而且在大楼的另一头，” 他提醒她。“这些 1880 年的墙很厚。”
“We were downstairs, and at the other end of the building,” he reminded her. “These 1880 walls are thick.”
“你觉得枪在哪里？你认为我们应该告诉治安官肯定有一把枪这个事实吗？”
“Where do you suppose the gun is? Do you think we should let the sheriff in on the fact that there must have been a gun?”
巴顿出现在门口。“你们最好到大厅来。治安官克林正在列出法院里的每个人的名单。”
Buttonholes appeared in the doorway. “You’d better e out in the hall. Sheriff Kling’s making a list of everybody who was in the courthouse.”
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