马龙探案卷四 之 正确的凶案 三
一月2日星期四11点30分，当约翰?J?马龙到达办公室时，他脸色苍白，有点颤抖，但除此之外并无大碍。
It was thirty minutes past eleven on Thursday, the second of January, when John J. Malone arrived at his office, pale and a trifle shaken, but otherwise none the worse for wear.
把凶杀组的丹尼尔?冯?弗拉纳根队长从法律的束缚中解救出来颇费一番周折。跨年夜离开办公室时，这位警察官员特意从口袋里拿出了他的证件和其他身份证明，还向马龙解释说如今警队里到处都是他的亲戚，你永远不知道会发生什么事。后来给他们做登记的值班警官没有认出这位警长，但冯?弗拉纳根立刻认出他是他姐夫的一个朋友，并自称是阿肯色州小石城的尤尼乌斯?麦吉利卡迪。
Extricating Captain Daniel von Flanagan of the homicide squad from the clutches of the law had taken a little doing. On leaving his office that New Year’s Eve, the police official had carefully removed his credentials and other identification from his pockets, explaining to Malone that the force was fairly crawling with his relatives nowadays, and that you never knew what might happen. The desk sergeant who had booked them had failed to recognize the officer, but von Flanagan had spotted him immediately as a friend of his brother-in-law, and had announced himself as one Junius P. McGillicuddy of Little Rock, Arkansas.
另一个与冯?弗拉纳根妻子家没有任何私人关系的值班警官拒绝接受任何进一步的解释。他说冯?弗拉纳根已经是那晚第十四个自称是警察部门官员的人了。
Another desk sergeant with no personal connections with von Flanagan’s 妻子’s kin, had refused to accept any further explanation. He stated that von Flanagan was the fourteenth guy that night who had claimed to be an official of the police department.
结果是凶杀组组长一直被关在监狱里，直到马龙设法找到既能让他获释而又不会使他陷入罪责的身份证明，特别是在他妻子的那些亲戚眼中。
The result had been that the chief of the homicide division had remained in jail until Malone managed to locate identification that would release him without incriminating him in the eyes of his in-laws.
这位小个子律师的漂亮黑发女秘书一脸不满的看着他。十六个小时的睡眠、刮了胡子以及一套新衣服让他的外表稍有改善，但也没好多少。
The little lawyer’s pretty, black-haired secretary looked at him with grim disapproval as he came in the door. Sixteen hours’ sleep, a shave, and a fresh suit had helped his appearance a little, but not much.
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