第110章 卷6 (第2/9页)

讶而困惑地看着他。“我还以为你想见的是马龙。”

jake looked at hi bewildered surprise “i thought it was alone you wanted to see”

“马龙！” 这位警官做了一个单臂的手势，似乎在问究竟谁会想见马龙。“我一直盼着你能出现。” 他从办公桌抽屉里拿出一本虽小但看起来很厚重的书。“我买了这本书，还有其他一些，我想让你告诉我这本书好不好。”

，！

“alone!” the police officer ade a one-ard sture that seed to ask who the hell would ever want to see alone “i’ve been wishg you’d show up” he reached his desk drawer and took out a sall but pondero-lookg book

杰克伸手拿过书。是 hf 哈灵顿所着的《新闻工作要点》。

jake reached for the book it was essentials of journalis, by h f harrgton

“当然是本好书，” 他说着把书扔回桌上，“但里面有不少四个音节的词。”

“sure it’s a good book,” he said, tossg it back on the desk, “but it’s got ite a few four-sylble words it”

冯?弗拉纳根把书放回抽屉，双手抱在脑后，危险地向后靠在椅子上。“是这样，杰克。我从来不想当警察。我从来就不喜欢当警察。没有哪一天我不想自己要是个高级殡仪承办人就好了，就像我一直期望的那样。嗯，市议员欠我一个亲戚钱，所以我就当了警察。但我讨厌警察。我甚至还去法庭把我的名字从普通的弗拉纳根改成了冯?弗拉纳根，这样就不那么像警察的名字了。”

von fnagan repced the book the desk drawer, csped his hands behd his head, and leaned periloly far back his chair “it’s like this, jake i never wanted to be a p i’ve never liked beg a p there never was a day when i didn’t wish i’d been a high-css undertaker, like i’d always ant to be well, the alderan owed one of y retives oney, i got to be a p but i hate ps i even went to urt and chand y na fro jt p fnagan to von fnagan, it wouldn’t und uch like a p’s na”

杰克恭敬地默默听着。他对这段叙述倒背如流。

jake listened respectful silence he knew the recital by heart, backwards, forwards, and sid