他把火柴移到桌子上的第二条线上。“现在这是弗雷特。她在报纸上看到她哥哥被杀了。她的第一个行动就是赶紧去他的房间拿到那份有罪的文件。它不见了。艾伦?奥格特里的文件也不见了 —— 而弗雷特一定知道它的存在。这给了她一个关于发生了什么的线索。然后当弗雷特得知威利斯?桑德斯给了艾伦的男朋友一份工作时，弗雷特确定是艾伦杀了冈布里尔。”
He moved the match to the second line on the table. “Here’s Fleurette, now. She read in the papers that her brother had been killed. Her first act was to hurry to his room to get hold of that incriminating paper. It was gone. The Ellen Ogletree paper was gone too-and Fleurette must have known of its existence. That gave her a hint as to what had happened. Then when Fleurette learned that Willis Sanders had given Ellen’s boy friend a job, Fleurette knew for certain that Ellen had killed Gumbril.”
“但是她为什么编出那个关于牙医诊所的故事呢？” 杰克问道。
“But why did she make up that yarn about the dentist office?” Jake asked.
“她是想吓唬艾伦让她把那份桑德斯的文件还回来，” 马龙说。“这也是她今天给我打电话的原因。她知道艾伦会听到她打的这个电话。你不能告诉我像弗雷特这样聪明的女人会在她不想被听到的时候被听到。她想如果艾伦认为她要来见我并说出她所知道的事情，艾伦会用那份文件来交换她保持沉默。然而，” 他深吸一口气后说，“艾伦杀了她。”
“She was trying to frighten Ellen into giving back that Sanders paper,” Malone said. “That’s why she telephoned me today, too. She knew Ellen would overhear her make that call. You can’t tell me a smart woman like Fleurette would be overheard if she didn’t intend it. She figured that if Ellen thought she was ing to see me and spill what she knew, Ellen would trade that paper for her keeping her mouth shut. Instead,” he said after a long breath, “Ellen killed her.”
他拿起火柴，在离另外两条线稍远的地方画了第三条线。“威利斯?桑德斯一看到艾伦拿着她在冈布里尔的盒子里找到的东西来找他，就知道是艾伦杀了冈布里尔。但他没办法说出来。然后达芙妮发疯了。他完全被吓坏了。当达芙妮离家出走时，他的第一个行动就是让艾伦帮忙找到她并说服她回来。达芙妮冷静下来后就回家了，但桑德斯仍然很害怕，所以他来找我。当他得知弗雷特的死讯时，他知道是谁杀了她，但他不敢说出来，甚至对我也不敢说。”
He took up the match and drew a third line, a little away from the other two. “Willis Sanders knew that Ellen had killed Gumbril, as soon as she came to him with what she’d found in Gumbril’s box. But he was in no position to talk. Then Daphne went berserk. He was scared clear through. When Daphne left home, his first move was to ask Ellen to help find her and talk her into returning. Daphne went home when she cooled off, but Sanders was still scared, and so he came to me. When he learned of Fleurette’s death he knew who had killed her, but he didn’t dare speak, not even to me.”
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