Malone nodded. “Fifty grand seems like a lot of dough, but on the one hand the boy friend was expensive, and on the other Gumbril was shaking her down regularly. The first thing Ellen knew, her bank account was down to rock bottom again. Speaking of rock bottom-” He looked in his glass and bawled, “Gus! How do you expect to get rich if you don't tend to business?”
海伦若有所思地说：“我想和像杰伊?富尔顿那样的人订婚一定有很好的理由。”
Helene said thoughtfully, “I thought there must have been some good reason for getting engaged to a guy like Jay Fulton.”
“也许她真的打算嫁给他，” 马龙说。“她走投无路了。然后她听到莫娜?麦克莱恩和杰克打的那个赌。她看到了一个谋杀冈布里尔并把罪责推到莫娜?麦克莱恩身上的机会。也许那时她就知道那个绿色金属盒子里有那张证书。但即使她不知道，她可能也觉得那个赌会起作用。她迫不及待地解除了和富尔顿的婚约，她马上就这么做了。然后她在莫娜?麦克莱恩家过了一夜，第二天早上拿走了暖手筒和枪，可能给冈布里尔打了个电话并和他约了个会，这个会让他走到州街，她跟踪他到一个拥挤的街角，然后开枪打死了他。”
“Maybe she really meant to marry him,” Malone said. “She was desperate. Then she heard Mona McClane make that bet with Jake. She saw a chance to murder Gumbril and lay the blame on Mona McClane. Maybe even then she knew about that certificate in the green metal box. But even if she didn’t, she probably figured the bet would do the trick. She couldn’t wait to break her engagement to Fulton, she did it right away. Then she spent the night at Mona McClane’s, took the muff and the gun the next morning, probably called Gumbril and made some appointment with him that would cause him to walk to State Street, trailed him to a crowded corner, and shot him.”
他用一根火柴在桌子上划了两条线。
He drew two lines on the table with a match.
“这是艾伦，这是弗雷特。艾伦在谋杀之后的第一个行动就是闯进冈布里尔的房间 —— 她可能以前在给他钱的时候去过那里 —— 找到了盒子和盒子的钥匙，拿走了与绑架有关的文件。当她发现与桑德斯枪击案有关的文件时，她看到了一个让桑德斯给她男朋友一份工作的机会，也拿走了那份文件。另一份她留下作为莫娜?麦克莱恩谋杀冈布里尔的动机。她甚至给沃尔沃思县的县书记员打电话，让他查一下他的记录以确保证书是真的。”
“Here’s Ellen and here’s Fleurette. Ellen’s first act after the murder was to break into Gumbril’s room-she’d probably been there before when she paid him off-found the box and the key to it, and removed the paper dealing with the kidnapping. When she found the paper dealing with the Sanders shooting, she saw a chance to induce Sanders to give her boy friend a job, and took that paper along too. The other she left to be Mona McClane’s motive for murdering Gumbril. She even called up the county clerk of Walworth County and had him check up his records to make sure the certificate was genuine.”
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