“That’s what you say,” Sheriff Kling said.
“我们有一个证人。” 杰克说。他的声音危险地低沉。他指着巴顿。“他当时和我们在一起。”
“We’ve got a witness,” Jake said. His voice was dangerously low. He pointed to Buttonholes. “He was right there with us.”
“是的我在。” 巴顿热心地说。
“Sure I was,” Buttonholes said helpfully.
治安官的眼睛眯了起来。“那不算什么。每个人都知道巴顿是杰克逊县最会说谎的人。” 他写下了些什么，杰克看不见是什么。“别试图逃跑。你就待在我能看到你的地方，直到我列完名单。”
The sheriff’s eyes narrowed. “Don’t mean a thing. Everybody knows Buttonholes is the worst liar in Jackson County.” He wrote something down, Jake couldn’t see what it was. “Don’t you try to make a break for it. You stay right where I can see you until I get through making my list.”
一个副治安官把他从桌子边推开，海伦及时抓住杰克的胳膊，才让副治安官保住了他的门牙。
A deputy shoved him away from the table, and Helene caught Jake’s arm just in time to save the deputy’s front teeth.
“我们现在最不需要的，” 她压低声音说，“就是你卷入一场争斗。”
“All we need now,” she said, under her breath, “is for you to get into a fight.”
她把他带到走廊里其他人听不到的地方，而他则嘟囔着一些关于治安官马文?克林的性格、智力、出身以及他整个家族不光彩的习惯的话。最后他问道：“他以为他是谁啊？”
She led him out of earshot of everyone in the corridor, while he muttered words that had to do with Sheriff Marvin Kling’s character, intelligence, origin, and the disgraceful habits of his entire family tree. He wound up by demanding, “who does he think he is, anyway?”
“我不确定，” 海伦说，“但他表现得好像他认为自己是杰克逊县的治安官。” 她皱起眉头。“杰克，这到底是怎么回事？他们不可能真的认为我们和这件事有任何关系。为什么每个人都对我们这么怀疑？”
“I don’t know for sure,” Helene said, “but he acts as if he thought he was sheriff of Jackson County.” She frowned. “Jake, what’s it all about? They can’t seriously think we had anything to do with it. Why is everybody so damned suspicious of us?”
杰克深吸一口气。“这对像你这样的城市女孩来说有点难解释。我们是陌生人。其他人都不是。这里的人可能并不都喜欢彼此，但他们都互相认识。”
Jake drew a long breath. “It’s a little hard to explain to a city girl like you. We’re strangers. No one else is. The people here may not all like each other, but they all know each other.”
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