“我们看看他的衣服。” 他对冯?弗拉纳根说。
“Let’s look at his clothes,” he told von Flanagan.
骆驼毛大衣和芥末色花呢套装乱七八糟地堆在一张有缺口的棕色木桌上。马龙心不在焉地戳了戳它们，拿起白色细布衬衫检查了一下，用手指摸了摸那双深褐色的厚底皮鞋。突然，他一动不动地站着，面无表情，盯着那堆衣服。
The camel’s hair topcoat and mustard tweed suit were piled together untidily on a nicked brown wooden table. Malone poked at them absently, picked up the white broadcloth shirt and examined it, ran a finger over the heavy tan brogues. Suddenly he stood stock-still, his face expressionless, staring at the heap of clothing.
“今晚雪是什么时候停的？”
“What time did it stop snowing tonight?”
冯?弗拉纳根眨了眨眼。“大概在午夜时分。如果你想知道确切时间，我可以去查一下。”
Von Flanagan blinked. “Sometime around midnight. I can find out exactly when it was, if you want me to.”
“我想知道。” 律师说。冯?弗拉纳根给气象局打电话的时候，他继续站在桌子旁边，眼睛盯着死者的衣服，但心里却在想着二十个街区以外的事情。
“I do,” the lawyer said. While von Flanagan telephoned to the weather bureau, he continued to stand by the table, his eyes fixed on the dead man’s clothing, yet seeing something twenty blocks away.
冯?弗拉纳根回来报告说：“雪是在十一点四十分停的。你能从中看出什么？”
Von Flanagan came back and reported, “It stopped snowing at eleven-forty. Can you make something of it?”
“差二十分十二点。” 马龙心不在焉地说。他沉默了一会儿，然后几乎是梦呓般地说道：“这个人走进乔天使酒吧的时候，离十二点还有三四分钟。他的鞋上有雪，很多雪，所以他一直在走路。但是他的衣服上没有雪，所以他走路的时候雪已经停了。雪会粘在那件毛茸茸的大衣上。” 他深吸了一口气。“这个人从距离乔天使酒吧步行十七八分钟，也许更少，但肯定不会更多的某个地方走到了这里。法医说他在被杀前不久喝了一两杯酒，不多，但有一两杯。现在你可以去查一下在乔天使酒吧几个街区范围内他可能去喝酒的所有地方，看看能不能找到记得他的人。”
“Twenty minutes to twelve,” Malone said absent-mindedly. He was silent for a moment, then spoke almost dreamily. “When this guy came into Joe the Angel’s bar, it was three or four minutes before twelve. He had snow on his shoes, plenty of it, so he’d been walking. But there wasn’t any snow on his clothes, so it hadn’t been snowing when he was walking. Snow would have stuck to that fuzzy topcoat.” He drew a long breath. “This guy walked to Joe the Angel’s from someplace under seventeen or eighteen minutes’ walking distance, maybe less, but certainly not more. The medical examiner said he’d had a drink or artnouveau or two just before he was killed, not many, but one or two. Now you can try all the places where he might have got a drink within a few blocks of Joe the Angel’s, and see if you can find anybody who remembers him.”
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