首相绑架案 5

Five,THE MILLION DOLLAR BOND ROBBERY,“What a number of bond robberies there have been lately!” I observed one morning, laying asidethe newspaper. “Poirot, let us forsake ¹ the science of detection, and take to crime instead! ”,“You are on the-how do you say it?-get-rich-quick tack ², eh, mon ami?
”,“Well, look at this last coup ³, the million dollars’ worth of Liberty Bonds which the Londonand Scottish Bank were sending to New York, and which disappeared in such a remarkablemanner on board the Olympia.”,“If it were not for mal de mer, and the difficulty of practising the so excellent method ofLaverguier for a longer time than the few hours of crossing the Channel, I should delight tovoyage myself on one of these big liners, ” murmured Poirot dreamily.,“Me, I always know when I am on the sea,
” said Poirot sadly. “And all those bagatelles thatyou enumerate ⁴, they say nothing to me; but, my friend, consider for a moment the genuises thattravel as it were incognito ⁵! On board these floating palaces, as you so justly call them, one wouldmeet the élite, the haute noblesse of the criminal world!”,I laughed.,“So that’s the way your enthusiasm runs! You would have liked to cross swords with the manwho sneaked ⁶ the Liberty Bonds? ”,The landlady ⁷ interrupted us.,“A young lady as wants to see you, Mr.?Poirot. Here’s her card.
”,You must forsake your bad habits.你必须革除你的坏习惯。,He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.他正往墙上钉一枚平头钉用来挂画 。