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With the cautious tenderness of one who strokes a notoriously vicious animal, he patted the Savage's arm. "Just let me …"
他像撫摩著有名的危險動物一樣拍了拍他的手臂。“你讓我先……。”
"Never!" cried the Savage.
“絕對不行！”野蠻人大叫。
But look here, old man …
可是，老兄，聽我說……
Throw it all away, that horrible poison.
把它全扔掉——那些可怕的毒品。
The words "Throw it all away" pierced through the enfolding layers of incomprehension to the quick of the Delta's consciousness.
一句“全扔掉”刺透了德爾塔們一重一重混沌的意識，刺痛了他們。
An angry murmur went up from the crowd.
人群發出了憤怒的嘟噥。
"I come to bring you freedom," said the Savage, turning back towards the twins. "I come …"
“我是來給你們自由的，”野蠻人轉身對著多生子說，“我是來給……”
The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up a number in the telephone book.
會計助理沒有再聽下面的話，他已經溜出了走廊，在電話簿上尋找著一個號碼。
"Not in his own rooms," Bernard summed up. Not in mine, not in yours.
“他自己的屋子里沒有，”伯納總結道，我的屋子里沒有，你的屋子里沒有，
Not at the Aphroditaum; not at the Centre or the College. Where can he have got to? Helmholtz shrugged his shoulders.
愛神宮沒有，孕育中心和學院也沒有。他可能到哪兒去了呢！赫姆霍爾茲聳了聳肩。
They had come back from their work expecting to find the Savage waiting for them at one or other of the usual meeting-places,
他們剛才下班回來，以為野蠻人會在平常和他們見面的一兩處地方等他們，
and there was no sign of the fellow.
可是那人連影子也沒有。
Which was annoying, as they had meant to nip across to Biarritz in Helmholtz's four-seater sporticopter.
這叫他們很掃興，因為他們原打算乘赫姆霍爾茲的四座體育直升機趕到比雅瑞茨去。
They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon.
野蠻人要是不馬上出現，他們就可能趕不上晚飯了。
"We'll give him five more minutes," said Helmholtz. "If he doesn't turn up by then, we'll …"
“我們再等他五分鐘，”赫姆霍爾茲說，“他要再不來我們就只好……”
The ringing of the telephone bell interrupted him. He picked up the receiver.
他的話叫電話鈴打斷了。他拿起話筒。
"Hullo. Speaking." Then, after a long interval of listening, "Ford in Flivver!" he swore. "I'll come at once."
“哈羅，我就是。”他聽了很久，“福帝在天！”他咒罵道。“我馬上來。”
"What is it?" Bernard asked.
“怎么啦？”伯納問。
"A fellow I know at the Park Lane Hospital," said Helmholtz. The Savage is there. Seems to have gone mad.
“是我在公園巷醫院的一個朋友打的，”赫姆霍爾茲說，野蠻人就在那兒，好像發了瘋。
Anyhow, it's urgent. Will you come with me?
總之，非常緊急，你愿意跟我去嗎？
