路易店里的送货员带着黑麦威士忌及时赶到，这才没让约翰?J?马龙陷入回忆的泪水之中。
The delivery boy from Louie’s arrived with the rye just in time to save John J. Malone from bursting into reminiscent tears.
他在大衣口袋里找到一小把零钱，给了送货员小费，说：“告诉路易我会给他寄张支票。” 然后开始打开其中一瓶酒。“你到底打算怎么赢得这个赌注呢？”
He found a small handful of change in his overcoat pocket, tipped the boy, said, “Tell Louie I’m sending him a check,” and began opening one of the bottles. “Just how do you propose going about winning this bet?”
“我还不确定所有的细节。首先，我要搬去和莫娜一起住。她已经邀请过我好几次去和她一起住了，而我一个人在城里就是个足够的借口。然后我要找出所有她可能想要谋杀的人，四处打听直到我找到一个被她谋杀的人，然后找出她是怎么以及什么时候干的。”
“I’m not sure of all the details yet. First. I’m going to move in with Mona. She’s asked me to stay with her a number of times, and my being alone in town is enough excuse. Then I’m going to find out all the people she might have wanted to murder, nose around until I find one of them who’s been murdered, and find out how and when she did it.”
“你说得可真轻松。” 马龙说。
“You make it sound so wonderfully easy,” Malone said.
她冲他做了个粗鲁的鬼脸。“你可能得帮忙。”
“You may have to help.”
“我一点也不惊讶。” 律师用一种挖苦的声音说。他的目光落在还在他桌上的那封电报上。他赶紧把它塞进口袋，说：“我需要很多钱。现在让我安静一下，我要打电话。”
“I wouldn’t be at all surprised,” the lawyer said in a wry voice. His eye fell on the cablegram that was still on his desk. He hastily stuffed it into his pocket, and said, “I’m going to need a lot of money. Leave me in peace now while I telephone.”
“你要那么多钱干什么？”
“What do you need a lot of money for?”
“不关你的事。” 他拿起电话，一个接一个地拨了正好十四个号码。在前十三个电话中，四个人不在城里，两个人在监狱里，六个人身无分文，还有一个人的电话被切断了。
“None of your damned business.” He picked up the telephone and called exactly fourteen numbers, one after another. Of the first thirteen calls, four people were out of town, two were in jail, six were broke, and one had had his telephone disconnected.
第十四个电话是打给当地一个赌博集团的头目马克斯?胡克的公寓。马龙亲切地称他为 “朋友”。
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