幽巷谋杀案14

II,Japp gave a long—a very prolonged—whistle.,“Well, I’m damned ¹!” he said.,Poirot sat down and smiled at him amiably ². It was quite a long time before the silence wasbroken. Then Japp said:,“Not murder disguised ³ as suicide ⁴, but suicide made to look like murder! ”,“Yes, and very cleverly done, too. Nothing overemphasized.
”,“But the attaché case? Where did that come in?”,“But, my dear, my very dear friend, I have already told you that it did not come in. ”,“Then why—
”,“The golf clubs. The golf clubs, Japp. They were the golf clubs of a left-handed person. JanePlenderleith kept her clubs at Wentworth. Those were Barbara Allen’s clubs. No wonder the girlgot, as you say, the wind up when we opened that cupboard. Her whole plan might have beenruined. But she is quick, she realized that she had, for one short moment, given herself away. Shesaw that we saw. So she does the best thing she can think of on the spur ⁵ of the moment. She triesto focus our attention on the wrong object. She says of the attaché case ‘That’s mine. I—it cameback with me this morning. So there can’t be anything there.’ And, as she hoped, away you go onthe false trail. For the same reason, when she sets out the following day to get rid of the golf clubs,she continues to use the attaché case as a—what is it—kippered herring?”,“Red herring. Do you mean that her real object was—? ”,She damned herself with one stupid remark. 她被自己的一句蠢话毁了。,She grinned amiably at us. 她咧着嘴向我们亲切地微笑 。