回到走廊，马龙告诉海伦：“我想我知道他在电话簿里找谁了。”
Back in the hall, Malone told Helene, “I think I know who he was looking for in the phone book.”
“谁？”
“Who?”
“我。”
“Me.”
他们还没来得及再说一句话，突然从死者的房间里传来一阵声响，接着又是一阵。有人在里面走动。
Before either of them could say another word, there was a sudden sound from the dead man’s room, and another. Someone was moving about.
有那么一瞬间，他们面面相觑，然后马龙两步并作一步冲上了楼梯。在房间门口，他停了下来，一只手抓着门框，然后推开了门。
For just an instant they stared at each other, then Malone raced up the steps, two at a time. At the door to the room he paused, one hand clutching the door jamb, then pushed it open.
两米高的彭德利?泰德韦尔手里拿着相机，平趴在房间中央的地板上，正在给被谋杀的人拍照。
The six-foot Pendley Tidewell, camera in hand, was stretched flat on the floor in the middle of the room, engaged in photographing the murdered man.
马龙还没来得及说话，他的注意力就被从写字台上吸墨纸下面露出的一小张白纸条吸引了过去。趁彭德利?泰德韦尔在不好意思地收拾他的摄影器材时，小个子律师把那张白纸条从吸墨纸下面抽了出来塞进了自己的口袋。
Before Malone could say a word, his attention was distracted by a thin sliver of white paper protruding from under the desk blotter. While Pendley Tidewell apologetically gathered up his photographic equipment, the little lawyer had slipped the paper out from under the blotter into his own pocket.
直到年轻的摄影师离开，马龙才又拿出来查看他的发现。然后他默默地读完了那张纸，脸上毫无表情，一言不发地把它递给了海伦。
Not until the young photographer had gone did Malone examine his find. Then he read it through silently, his face expressionless, and handed it to Helene without a word.
那似乎是一封信的第二页，是用一种果断的、竖体的字体书写的。
It appeared to be the second page of a letter, written in a decisive, vertical handwriting.
“没有人能把罪行强加在一个已经死了二十年的人身上。”
“No one can pin a crime on a man who’s been dead for twenty years.”
马龙说：“他可能是听到走廊里有动静的时候正在写这封信，然后把它塞到了桌垫下面。” 他皱起眉头，一脸阴郁。“如果你要我解释这是什么意思，这将是你问我的最后一个问题。”
Malone said, “He probably was writing it when he heard someone in the hall, and slipped it under the blotter.” His brows drew together in a heavy scowl. “If you ask me what it means, it will be the last thing you ever ask me.”
他小心地把纸条放进内侧口袋，然后带着海伦下了楼。
He stowed the note carefully in an inside pocket and led the way downstairs.
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