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马龙探案卷五 之 盛怒的审判 三

“这与我无关，” 杰克说着，点燃一支香烟，“而且我也不确定我会在意，但谁可能想要谋杀你们的前参议员呢？”

“it’s none of y bess,” jake said, lightg a cigarette, “and i don’t know that i care very uch, but who ight have wanted to urder your ex-senator?”

巴顿对着他正在擦拭的栏杆皱起眉头。“佩维利参议员并不是那种你会称之为受欢迎的人。”

buttonholes swled at the railg he was dtg “senator peveley wasn’t exactly what you’d call a popur an”

“他肯定在某些人当中很受欢迎，” 海伦断言。“他不可能买下所有那些选票。”

“he t have been popur with people,” helene decred “he uldn’t have bought all those votes”

“我是说在个人层面上受欢迎。” 巴顿告诉她。

“pernally popur is what i an to say,” buttonholes told her

三个人在县书记员的办公室里等待着。治安官马文?克林和年轻的地方检察官正在门外进行一场冗长的争论。那群旁观者中的其他人已经分散到了大楼里的各个办公室。前参议员佩维利仍然躺在走廊的地板上，就像他倒下时那样。

the three were waitg the unty clerk’s office sheriff arv klg and the young district attorney were holdg a lengthy debate jt outside the door others the group of spectators had scattered to vario offices the buildg ex-senator peveley still y on the rridor floor, exactly as he had fallen

后来，海伦评论说，如果她不在场，她不会相信这一切是可能的。治安官克林在迟迟意识到自己负责这个局面之后，采取的第一个行动是命令把法院的两扇门都锁上。县书记员对此提出了反对，理由很合理，即人们一直为了拿钓鱼许可证而进来。治安官最后妥协了，在每扇巨大的双开门处安排了一名副手，严格命令让人进来，但不让任何人出去。

ter, helene nted that she wouldn’t have believed any of it possible, if she hadn’t been there sheriff klg’s first act, after his beted realization that he was char of the situation, was to order both doors to the urthoe locked the unty clerk had objected to this, on the reanable grounds that p