命案目睹记47

时间：2025-10-20 07:32:13

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Over the telephone, Craddock’s voice came in sharp disbelief.
“Alfred?” he said. “Alfred?”
Inspector1 Bacon, shifting the telephone receiver a little, said: “You didn’t
expect that?”
“No, indeed. As a matter of fact, I’d just got him taped for the murderer!”
“I heard about him being spotted2 by the ticket collector. Looked bad for
him all right. Yes, looked as though we’d got our man.”
“Well,” said Craddock flatly, “we were wrong.”
There was a moment’s silence. Then Craddock asked:
“There was a nurse in charge. How did she come to slip up?”
“Can’t blame her. Miss Eyelesbarrow was all in and went to get a bit of
sleep. The nurse had five patients on her hands, the old man, Emma,
Cedric, Harold and Alfred. She couldn’t be everywhere at once. It seems
old Mr. Crackenthorpe started creating in a big way. Said he was dying.
She went in, got him soothed3 down, came back again and took Alfred in
some tea with glucose4. He drank it and that was that.”
“Arsenic again?”
“Seems so. Of course it could have been a relapse, but Quimper doesn’t
think so and Johnstone agrees.”
“I suppose,” said Craddock, doubtfully, “that Alfred was meant to be the
victim?”
Bacon sounded interested. “You mean that whereas Alfred’s death
wouldn’t do anyone a penn’orth of good, the old man’s death would bene-
fit the lot of them? I suppose it might have been a mistake—somebody
might have thought the tea was intended for the old man.”
“Are they sure that that’s the way the stuff was administered?”
“No, of course they aren’t sure. The nurse, like a good nurse, washed up
the whole contraption. Cups, spoons, teapot—everything. But it seems the
only feasible method.”
“Meaning,” said Craddock thoughtfully, “that one of the patients wasn’t
as ill as the others? Saw his chance and doped the cup?”
“Well, there won’t be anymore funny business,” said Inspector Bacon
grimly. “We’ve got two nurses on the job now, to say nothing of Miss Eye-
lesbarrow, and I’ve got a couple of men there too. You coming down?”
“As fast as I can make it!”

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1 inspector q6kxH     
n.检查员，监察员，视察员
参考例句：
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
2 spotted 7FEyj     
adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的
参考例句：
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
3 soothed 509169542d21da19b0b0bd232848b963     
v.安慰( soothe的过去式和过去分词 )；抚慰；使舒服；减轻痛苦
参考例句：
  • The music soothed her for a while. 音乐让她稍微安静了一会儿。
  • The soft modulation of her voice soothed the infant. 她柔和的声调使婴儿安静了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4 glucose Fyiyz     
n.葡萄糖
参考例句：
  • I gave him an extra dose of glucose to pep him up.我给他多注射了一剂葡萄糖以增强他的活力。
  • The doctor injected glucose into his patient's veins.医生将葡萄糖注入病人的静脉。

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