第100章 卷33（2/2）

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“什么钥匙？”

“what key?”

“盒子的钥匙，” 马龙吼道，“冈布里尔的钥匙。在他身上或者在他的其他物品中有没有找到任何钥匙？”

“the key to the box,” malone roared, “Gumbril’s key. were there any keys found on his person or anywhere else among his possessions?”

杰克说：“没有。我想没有。”

Jake said, “No. I guess there weren’t.”

“你说得太对了，没有钥匙。” 马龙说，“如果他把盒子锁上了，那他肯定得在某个地方有把钥匙。显然，他非常不喜欢携带任何东西或者拥有任何东西。你看到了他房间里的情况，杰克。你也听到了在他口袋里找到的东西。这个人除了钱什么都不想要。甚至连一把打开金属公文箱的小钥匙都没有。他可能意识到，一般人看到这个盒子都会认为它是锁着的，就像我们一样。甚至有可能这个盒子里没有什么贵重到需要锁起来的东西。”

“You’re damned right there weren’t,” malone said. “If he’d kept the box locked he’d have had to have a key somewhere. Evidently he had an intense dislike of carrying anything or having anything. You saw what was in his room, Jake. You heard what was found in his pockets. the man simply didn’t want possessions, except money. Not even a small key to open a metal dispatch box. he probably realized that the average person, looking at the box, would assume it to be locked, just as we did. It’s even possible that the box doesn’t contain anything sufficiently valuable to be locked up.”

杰克呻吟了一声。

Jake groaned.

海伦说：“看在老天的份上，别光坐在那儿说，看看里面。”

helene said, “For the love of heaven, don’t sit there talking about it, look inside it.”

“别催我。” 马龙生气地说。他把盒子拉到他桌子的这一边。突然，他像被盒子蛰了一下似的把它扔了下去。他的目光望向他办公室的墙壁之外的某个遥远的地方。“那都是胡说八道。” 他慢慢地说。

“Stop rushing me,” malone said crossly. he drew the box over to his side of the desk. Suddenly he dropped it as though it had stung him. he looked somewhere far beyond the walls of his office. “that was all poppycock,” he said slowly.

杰克和海伦都不敢打断他。

Neither Jake nor helene dared to interrupt him.

“盒子是锁着的。” 他说，似乎在斟酌着每个字，“有一把钥匙。钥匙在冈布里尔的房间里 —— 不在他身上，否则警察会找到的。一定是打开盒子的人把钥匙拿走了。”

“the box was locked,” he said, seeming to weigh each word against the next. “there was a key. the key was in Gumbril’s room-not on his person, or the police would have found it. It must have been carried away by the person who opened the box.”

“什么人？” 这句话到了杰克嘴边又咽了回去。马龙坐在那儿凝视着前方，脸色突然变得苍白。

the words, “what person?” rose to Jake’s lips and died there. malone sat staring into space, his face suddenly gray.

“如果你不打开那个该死的盒子，我来。” 海伦沙哑地说。

“If you don’t open that damned box, I will,” helene said hoarsely.

马龙看着她，仿佛从未见过她似的。“为什么？” 他说，话语沉重。

malone looked at her as though he had never seen her before. “what for?” he said, the words dragging.

他盯着盒子看了好一会儿，最后猛地掀开盖子，朝里面窥视。他极其慎重地拿出一张折叠起来的纸，看起来像是某种官方文件。

he stared at the box for a long moment, finally threw open the lid and peered inside. with madden-deliberation he drew out a folded piece of paper that appeared to be an official document of some kind.

小个子律师把它展开，坐在那儿茫然地盯着它看了好长时间。然后他靠在椅子上，显然忘记了杰克和海伦的存在，一遍又一遍地读着那份文件，仿佛要把它背下来似的。

the little lawyer unfolded it and sat staring blankly at it for a long time. then he leaned back in his chair, apparently oblivious of Jake and helene’s presence, reading the document over and over as though he were trying to memorize it.

“马龙！”

“malone!”

他没有回答。他们仿佛在千里之外。他拿起电话，要求接 “长途电话”，然后说：“我要和威斯康星州埃尔克霍恩的沃尔沃思县的县书记员通话。谢谢。”

he didn't answer. they might have been a thousand miles away. he picked up the telephone, asked for, “Long distance,” and said, “I want to speak to the county clerk of walworth county, at Elkhorn, wisconsin. thank you.”

就在这时，海伦失去了耐心，从马龙手中夺过文件，看了看，一言不发地递给了杰克。

At that moment helene, her patience exhausted, snatched the document from malone’s hands, looked at it, and handed it, without a word, to Jake.

那是一张结婚证书，日期是 1914 年 5 月 21 日，在威斯康星州埃尔克霍恩，结婚双方是莫娜?麦克莱恩和约书亚?冈布里尔。

It was a certificate of marriage, dated may 21, 1914, at Elkhorn, wisconsin, between one mona mcclane and one Joshua Gumbril.