“我看到她了，可她是谁？”
“I see her, but who is she?”
“伊迪莎?文宁的同伴 —— 卢埃拉?怀特。别让她看到我们。”
“Editha Venning’s panion—Louella White. Don’t let her see us.”
卢埃拉?怀特。他想起了马龙对她的描述，从一位枫树公园主妇的海豹皮肩头向外偷看了一眼。这一眼并没有让他比第一眼更喜欢她。
Louella White. He remembered Malone’s description of her, and peered over the sealskin shoulder of a Maple Park matron for a second look. It didn’t make him like her any better than the first one had.
海伦上气不接下气地说：“今天早上在莫娜家，我想同时留意每个人。我觉得伊迪莎?文宁想找个机会单独离开，所以我一直盯着她，但我有种不妙的感觉其他人也都在盯着她。”
Helene said breathlessly, “This morning at Mona’s I was trying to watch everybody at once. I had an idea Editha Venning was trying to get off somewhere on her own, and kept my eye on her, but I had a dirty feeling everybody else was keeping an eye on her too.”
“你在莫娜?麦克莱恩家干什么？”
“What were you doing at Mona McClane’s?”
“别管了。不管怎样，伊迪莎去了市中心，说她要去看眼科医生。我找了个借口跟在她后面，我有种预感这个像大理石雕像一样的同伴也这么做了。但我知道在我们到达卢普区之前她就甩掉了同伴。她直奔亚当斯街的北岸车站，我也一样，但我被交通堵住了，当我的出租车把我扔在门口时，她已经买了票，上了楼梯一半了。我赶到站台时刚好看到她上了一辆火车，但没来得及赶上同一辆。我知道她一定是要来这里，所以我等了三十分钟坐下一趟火车也跟了出来。”
“Never mind. Anyway, Editha got away downtown, saying she was going to the oculist. I made some excuse and went after her, and I have a hunch this marble-map panion did, too. But I know she lost the panion before we got down to the Loop. She headed right for the North Shore station at Adams Street, and so did I, but I got snagged up in traffic and when my cab dumped me at the door, she had already bought a ticket and was halfway up the stairs. I got up to the platform just in time to see her grab a train, but not in time to catch the same one. I knew she must be ing out here, so I waited thirty minutes for the next train and came on out myself.”
“但是为什么……” 杰克刚开口。
“But why did—” Jake began.
他的话被海岸特别快车的嘈杂声打断了，火车突然在站台前停下，带着小矮人穿着丝绸披风上台时的那种自负。在随后上下车的乘客的混乱中，杰克一直留意着卢埃拉?怀特，看到她上了第二节车厢。他小心地领着海伦朝第一节车厢走去，把她带到最前面的吸烟车厢。
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