“这是个说得过去的故事，但绝对是业余水平。她为什么不开灯在周围乱逛呢？”
“It’s a fair story, but definitely amateur,” Jake said. “Why was she prowling around without any lights?”
“也许她能在黑暗中看得见。不管怎样，她是这么说的。文宁大约一个小时后回来了。”
“Maybe she can see in the dark. Anyway, that’s the way she tells it. Venning came in about an hour later.”
“他发现她了吗？”
“Did he find her?”
“没有。女仆沿着走廊走，看到房间的门开着。她进去查看，发现文宁夫人躺在地上。窃贼显然已经逃走了。”
“No. The maid went down the hall and saw the door to the room was open. She investigated and found Mrs. Venning on the floor. The burglars had evidently escaped.”
“我猜他们是从烟囱逃走的。”杰克尖刻地说。
“Through the chimney, I suppose,” Jake said acidly.
“是你要听这个故事的，我告诉你可没得到一分钱好处。但这还不是全部。彭德利·泰德韦尔一直躲在床底下。”
“You asked for the story and I’m giving it to you without a cent of profit. But that’s not all. Pendley Tidewell was under the bed all the time.”
“在谁的床底下？”
“Under whose bed?”
“迈克尔·文宁的床底下。这件事没有告诉警察。莫娜拒绝讨论这件事，也不让其他人说。卢——或者卢埃拉——怀特头疼，脸色很难看。彭德利把自己锁在暗房里不出来。他肯定拍到了那些歌舞女郎比我们想象中更好的照片。”她转向律师。“马龙，罗斯代尔公墓里的那个坟墓里有什么？”
“Michael Venning’s. That wasn’t given to the police. Mona refuses to discuss that or let anyone else. Lou—or Louella—White has a headache and looks very grim. Pendley has locked himself in his darkroom and won’t e out. He must have gotten better shots of those chorus girls than we thought.” She turned to the lawyer. “Malone, what was in that grave in the Rosedale cemetery?”
“一口在那里放了二十年的棺材，还有一具没有经过防腐处理的男人的骷髅。”
“A coffin that had been there twenty years, and the skeleton of a man who hadn’t been embalmed.”
她倒吸一口凉气。“那么有三起谋杀案？”
“She gasped. “Then there were three murders?”
“他可能不是被谋杀的。经过这么久的时间，没有办法确定。”他转过身，走到桌子旁。他脸色苍白，非常疲惫。
“He might not have been murdered. There’s no way of telling, at this late date.” He turned around and walked over to the desk. He was pale and very tired.
“钥匙在这儿。”杰克说着，把它扔在桌子上。
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