“没错。” 伊迪丝?文宁说。“我们午饭后就一直在外面。”
“That’s right,” Editha Venning said. “We’ve been out ever since lunch.”
“那么今天下午有谁在这所房子里？” 马龙问。
“Who has been in the house this afternoon?” Malone asked.
“我在。” 莫娜?麦克莱恩说。“午饭后我休息了一会儿，然后在你来之前，我一直在和厨师商量明天的晚餐。我从三点左右就没上过楼，不过如果需要的话，我想我也没有办法证明。”
“I have,” Mona McClane said. “I wased awhile after luncheon, and then until you arrived I was conferring with the cook about tomorrow’s dinner. I haven’t been upstairs since about three o’clock, though I don’t suppose I could prove that if I had to.”
“你呢？” 马龙问罗特斯?艾伦。
“How about you?” Malone asked Lotus Allen.
“我整个下午都在。我听到贾斯特太太上楼的声音时正在涂指甲油。然后我走过走廊去看看罗斯情况怎么样，发现他醉得不省人事。我从他那里回来的时候，碰到贾斯特太太从她房间出来，就和她一起下了楼。”
“I’ve been in all afternoon. I was doing my nails when I heard Mrs. Justus e up the stairs. Then I went down the hall to see what kind of shape Ross was in, and I found he’d passed out cold. When I came from seeing about him, I met Mrs. Justus ing out of her room, and came downstairs with her.”
马龙赞许地点点头。罗特斯?艾伦 —— 他一直想着她叫简 —— 是个不错的实际的好姑娘。“这个罗斯呢？”
Malone nodded approvingly. Lotus Allen—he kept thinking of her as Jane—was a good, practical girl. “What about this Ross?”
“他叫罗斯?麦克劳林。” 莫娜说。“他午饭的时候喝的有点醉了，但也不是特别厉害。据我所知，他整个下午都把自己关在房间里，喝着一瓶波旁威士忌。”
“His name’s Ross McLaurin,” Mona said. “He was a little drunk at lunch, but not unusually. As far as I know, he’s been shut up in his room with a bottle of bourbon all 下午.”
“那个爱偷拍的家伙呢？”
“Where’s the candid-camera fiend?”
莫娜?麦克莱恩说：“他可能自从带着相机跑上楼后就一直锁在暗房里没出来。”
Mona McClane said, “He’s probably been locked in the darkroom ever since he ran upstairs with his camera.”
马龙点点头，环顾了一下房间。他的目光落在卢埃拉?怀特身上。这是一个绝佳的谋杀嫌犯人选，他想，只是她很可能会，用的是斧头在一所闹鬼的房子里杀人。
Malone nodded and glanced around the room. His eye fell on Louella White. A swell candidate for a murderess, he thought, except that she’d probably do her murdering in a haunted house, and with an ax.
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