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Fowler's eyes went to the single window of the room. It was an ordinary window, against which now the night was pressing blackly.
福勒朝房間唯一的窗戶望了一眼。這只是一扇普通的窗戶，窗外是漆黑的夜晚。
"Balcony?" Max asked curiously. "No, I had a passkey. I did not know about the balcony. It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it."
“陽臺？”馬克斯好奇地問。“不，我有萬能鑰匙。我不知道什么陽臺。如果我早知道的話，能省不少麻煩。”
"It's not my balcony," explained Ausable angrily. "It belongs to the next apartment." He glanced explanatorily at Fowler. "You see," he said. "This room used to be part of a large unit, and the next room through that door there used to be the living room. It had the balcony, which extends under my window now. You can get onto it from the empty room next door, and somebody did, last month. The management promised to block it off. But they haven't."
“那不是我的陽臺，”奧薩博生氣地解釋說，“它屬于隔壁房間。”他看了福勒一眼解釋說。“你瞧，”他說，“這個房間原來是一個大套間的一部分，那扇門進去的隔壁房間曾經是一間起居室。起居室有陽臺，并且現在延伸到我的窗戶下。從隔壁的空房間就可以到陽臺上，上個月就有人這么做了。管理人員答應把它封起來，但他們并未付諸行動。”
Max glanced at Fowler, who was standing stiffly a few feet from Ausable, and waved the gun with a commanding gesture. "Please sit down," he said. "We have a wait of half an hour, I think."
馬克斯看了看此時正僵硬地站在離奧薩博幾英尺遠的福勒，晃晃槍做出一個命令的手勢。“坐下吧，”他說，“我想我們還得等半個小時。”
"Thirty-one minutes," Ausable said moodily. "The appointment was for twelve-thirty. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, Max."
“是31分鐘，”奧薩博不快地說道，“約定的時間是12點30分。馬克斯，我很想知道你是怎么知道那份報告的。”
The little spy smiled evilly. "And we wish we knew how your people got the report. But, no harm has been done. I will get it back tonight. What is that? Who is at the door?"
那個小個子間諜邪惡地笑著。“我們倒是想知道你的人是怎么得到那份報告的。不過，好在一切平安無事。今天晚上我就可以再拿回來。是誰？誰在敲門？”
Fowler jumped at the sudden knocking at the door. Ausable just smiled. "That will be the police," he said. "I thought that such an important paper should have a little extra protection. I told them to check out on me to make sure everything was all right."
突然的敲門聲使福勒驚跳起來。奧薩博只是笑笑，“一定是警察，”他說，“我認為這么一份重要的文件應該有點特別的保護。我告訴他們來檢查一下以確保一切正常。”
