杰克嘟囔着说，任何在莫娜?麦克莱恩庇护下的人最好都带着降落伞，并说道：“别让我打断你。这个罗特斯?艾伦是谁？”
Jake muttered something to the effect that anyone under Mona McClane’s wing had better have a parachute along, and said, “Don’t let me interrupt you. How about this Lotus Allen?”
“她是那种昂贵的马萨诸塞州女孩，在任何场合都本能地穿着得体。长得漂亮，但含蓄内敛。穿着进口花呢、手工编织的毛衣、运动围巾和黑色雪纺内衣。是那种即使不喝酒也不会显得古板的女孩，但她确实喝酒，而且她可能还会随地吐痰和骂人。”
“She’s the sort of expensive Massachusetts girl who instinctively wears the right clothes on every occasion. Damned good-looking, in a restrained sort of way. Imported tweeds, hand-knit sweaters, sport scarves, and black chiffon underwear. The sort of girl who wouldn’t seem like a prig if she didn’t drink, but she does, and she probably spits and swears, too.”
“你和她约会了吗？” 杰克问。
“Did you make a date with her?” Jake asked.
马龙说：“她看上了麦克劳林。我怀疑这就是她拜访莫娜?麦克莱恩的原因。”
Malone said, “She has her eye on McLaurin. I suspected that’s why she’s visiting Mona McClane.”
“这就把嫌疑人都列出来了，” 杰克说。“那么这个尸体是谁？除了杰拉尔德?图伊兹先生的名字之外。”
“That does up the suspects,” Jake said. “Now who was the corpse? Outside of being a Mr. Gerald Tuesday.”
“似乎没人知道，” 马龙说，“包括莫娜?麦克莱恩。几年前她在欧洲的某个地方，猜是巴黎，见过他。在那儿认识的。某个共同的朋友写信告诉莫娜他要来芝加哥，她就和他取得了联系并邀请他到她家做客。这就是大家所知道的一切。毕竟，他刚到这个城市，除了莫娜?麦克莱恩，房子里没人见过他。冯?弗拉纳根现在为了了解他的情况都快急疯了。”
“Nobody seems to know,” Malone said, “including Mona McClane. She’d met him somewhere in Europe a few years ago—Paris, I guess. Got acquainted with him there. Some mutual friend wrote Mona that he was ing to Chicago, and she got in contact with her him and invited him to stay with her. That’s about all anyone knows. After all, he’d just arrived in town, and nobody in the house had met him except Mona McClane. Von Flanagan’s losing his mind trying to find out about him now”
杰克皱起眉头。“他的被杀不符合莫娜的赌注条件。但肯定有某种联系。他是在她家里被谋杀的。他临死前还试图给你打电话。显然他知道那个赌约。” 杰克深吸一口气说，“我想和莫娜谈谈。我想我现在就去那儿。”
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