“佩维利参议员不可能死，” 一个戴眼镜的瘦子疯狂地说。“为什么，我五分钟前还在和他说话。”
“Senator Pevely can’t be dead,” a thin, spectacled man said wildly. “Why, I was only talking to him five minutes ago.”
“你为什么认为那是一种保证？” 杰克恼怒地说。“你觉得他只是在装死？”
“What makes you think that’s a guarantee?” Jake said irritably. “You figure he’s just doing imitations?”
他专注地环顾人群。从听到第一声尖叫他就一直在这儿，他知道没有人从那两扇双开门出去。在那条走廊里的某个人谋杀了佩维利参议员。
He looked around the group intently. He had been there since the first sound of the scream, and he knew that nobody has gone out through those double doors. Someone, there in that corridor, had murdered Senator Peveley.
一个杰克在楼上法庭注意到的穿棕色西装的年轻人挤过人群，站在那里盯着尸体。他是一个英俊的年轻人，带着一种淡淡的忧虑，棕色头发和棕色眼睛。他脸上有一侧有铅笔污渍。
A young, brown-suited man Jake had noticed upstairs in the courtroom had pushed his way through the crowd and was standing staring at the body. He was a handsome young man, in a thin, worried way, brown-haired and brown-eyed. There was a lead pencil smudge on one side of his face.
“杰瑞?勒克斯通，新的地方检察官，” 纽扣先生对杰克小声说。
“Jerry Luckstone, the new district attorney,” Buttonholes whispered to Jake.
地方检察官的脸变得惨白。
The district attorney’s face had turned a sickly white.
“但是是佩维利参议员，” 他茫然地说。
“But it’s Senator Peveley,” he said in a dazed voice.
“第一次就答对了，” 杰克说。“现在试试回答价值四美元的问题。”
“Right the first time,” Jake said. “Now try for the four-dollar question.”
杰瑞?勒克斯通没有听到。他傻傻地盯着死者白色亚麻西装的背面。
Jerry Luckstone hadn’t heard. He was goggling foolishly at the back of the dead man’s white linen suit.”
“他不可能被谋杀，” 他最后宣称。“我和他的女儿订婚了。”
“He can’t have been murdered,” he declared at last. “I’m engaged to marry his daughter.”
杰克叹了口气。“你只能找别人来把新娘交给新郎了。” 他深吸一口气。“那么，你打算怎么做？一个人被谋杀了。你不能就站在这儿永远看着他。”
Jake sighed. “You’ll just have to get someone else to give the bride away.” He drew a long breath. “Well, what are you going to do about it? A man’s been murdered. You can't just stand here looking at him forever.”
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