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p by the will he had to e all the way back here to deal with the trtees rald ca with hi i stayed sgapore it was a flyg trip—not half a dozen people knew about it then i got a cable sayg ichael was returng jt that, no ore ter there was another cable, askg to et hi tokyo i went there and when his boat docked—it was rald tuesday who ca down the gangpnk he told ichael was dead”

海伦倒吸了一口气，想说什么又沉默了。杰克轻轻地捏了捏她的胳膊。

helene gasped, started to speak, and was silent jake seezed her ar ntly

“杰拉尔德说——那是他们到达的那天发生的一场意外。那是夏天——他们去了位于枫树公园的文宁庄园。那里只有管理员，没有别人。上楼梯的时候迈克尔绊了一下，摔了下去——摔断了脖子。杰拉尔德秘密地把他埋在了那里。然后他拿走了迈克尔的护照——他们长得足够像，所以他能蒙混过关——练习模仿迈克尔的签名，然后开始返回东方。”

“rald said—it had been an aident—the day of their arrival it was sur—they went out to the venng estate aple park no one was there but the caretaker gog up the stairs ichael tripped, fell—and broke his neck rald buried hi out there, secretly then he took ichael’s passport—they looked jt enough alike he uld t away with it—practiced writg ichael’s signature, and started back to the orient”

，！

原名安杰洛的洛特斯·艾伦倒吸了一口气。“你是说——他决定变成迈克尔·文宁？”

lot allen, nee anlo, gasped “you an—he decided to bee ichael venng?”

是马龙回答了她。“我说过他是个伟大的机会主义者。如果那真的是一场意外，而不是谋杀，可能就在那天在那所房子里，文宁躺在楼梯下死了，他把这一切都想了一遍。文宁一死，他投入那十万美元到他生意里的机会就没了，这是真的。但这也是一个天赐良机，让他余生都能成为百万富翁。除了极少数无关紧要的人，没有人知道文宁来过这个国家。他可以秘密地埋葬文宁，冒充他，毫无困难地从遗产受托人那里每月领取支票。他所要做的就是远离认识他或认识文宁的人。”

it was alone who answered “i said he was a great opportunist if it really was an a