Chapter 31 sixth scene

On the twelfth floor of the Grant Hotel, Officer Duffy was at the door of the suite where Jolie Brown lived, with his broad back leaning against the door, talking to a man.The man looked sad and full of vigilance. At this moment, Inspector Sam and Prosecutor Bruno led a group of men and rushed in from the aisle.Duffy introduced this melancholy man as a security officer of the Grant Hotel. Under the sharp eyes of Sam's cold arrow, the melancholy security officer became even more melancholy. "Anything?" Sam asked menacingly. "As quiet as two sleeping mice," said the gloomy security officer. "It doesn't look like there will be any problem, inspector, do you think so?"

"Yeah, not even a fart sound," the police officer added, "I think this pair of wild mandarin ducks probably went to bed early." The security personnel immediately put on a fussy expression: "Our restaurant is run in a decent manner, and no mess is allowed." Sam's tone was still bad: "Is there any other exit from this suite?" "There is a door there," Duffy pointed with his strong arm. "Of course there is an emergency exit, but I have sent someone to guard the stairs. In addition, there are people watching on the roof, just to be cautious."

"I don't think it's necessary to be so cautious," Bruno objected.His expression was not relaxed, "They probably won't want to escape." "Well, who dares to say that," Sam said coldly, "boys, are you ready?" Any idlers etc.The two criminal police tacitly guarded the doors of the left and right neighboring rooms.Sam suddenly slammed the door hard. There was no movement in the suite. Sam put his ear to the door and listened. Then, he knocked hard on the door without breaking it. The gloomy security guard wanted to stop him, but he swallowed it immediately, so he walked around anxiously. Going to the aisle to avoid reality, Sam’s door-slamming action continued for a long time. He pricked up his ears and heard a slight sound in the room. He knocked and waited with a grin. There was the sound of a switch being flipped; there was a lazy shuffling and the sound of the deadbolt being pulled, and Sam looked back at his fellow officers.The door was now cautiously opened two inches.

"Who? What are you doing?" Qiao Li Brown's voice, a nervous voice that didn't know what happened. Sam put a big foot into the two-inch wide door gap first, and pushed his thigh-thick palm against the door panel, and the door was pushed open by him abruptly.In the lighted suite, stood a very beautiful but also very melancholy Qiao Li Brown, wearing a sky blue silk pajamas, with a pair of satin slippers on her small and bare feet. She looked at Sam's ferocious face as if she had seen a ghost, took a deep breath, and immediately shrank back: "Ah, it's you, Inspector Sam!" Her voice was weak, as if caught by this The uninvited guest in the middle of the night was taken aback, "Yes—is something wrong?"

"It's okay, it's not a big problem." Sam said kindly, but his eyes searched around.At this moment, he was standing in the living room of the actress suite. The room was quite messy. An empty wine bottle and a nearly empty whiskey bottle were thrown on the sideboard; on the table were a pile of half-smoked cigarette butts and a Women's pearl bag; besides, there are unwashed glasses, an overturned chair... Qiaoli moved her eyes from the inspector's face to the passage outside the door, her eyeballs were so wide that they almost fell out, outside, there was a lot of darkness The next one is Prosecutor Bruno and a row of standing detectives.

The door to the bedroom was now closed. Sam grinned: "My lord prosecutor, let's take a look - the rest of you stay outside." Bruno entered the room and closed the door. Until this moment, a certain degree of female calm instinct came back, Qiao Li's cheeks returned to blood, and she brushed her hair with one hand. "Well!" she said, "you have picked a good time to bother a lady, Inspector, what's the business?" "Don't worry, ma'am," Sam said with a smile on his face. "Are you alone?" "What does this have to do with you?"

"What I'm asking you is—are you alone?" "It's none of your business." Bruno stood leaning against the wall watching the excitement, while Sam showed a row of white teeth and strode towards the bedroom door.With a shriek the actress rushed to bar the door, terribly angry, her shining Spanish eyes blinking. "How shameless you are!" she screamed. "Do you have a search warrant? You can't—" Sam put a big hand on her shoulder and pushed her away... The door opened at this moment, and Plaque suddenly appeared, his eyes blinking fiercely when he saw the light for the first time.

"Okay, okay," said Pluck in a broken voice, "There's no need to be so noisy, what happened?" He wore a tight-fitting silk pajamas, and the appearance of being careful not to be knocked by leaves in the daytime disappeared. His loose hair stood up on the crown as if oiled, his pointed beard hung weakly, and around his golden fish eyes It's a black circle, and it looks like it's over-used. Cholly Brown shook her head angrily, picked a longer cigarette butt from the pile on the table, struck a match, and exhaled a large puff of smoke exaggeratedly.Then, she sat down, no longer swaying her legs in a ladylike manner; Pluck, who had just figured out the situation, stood alone, as if fully aware of her miserable and helpless physical existence, and a little overwhelmed to focus on it. Switch from one foot to the other, and so on.

Sam stared at him coldly, from one foot to the other, and no one spoke at the scene. After a while, Sam finally broke the silence: "Now, you two sweet mandarin ducks who live together and fly together, can you tell me where you have been this night?" Qiao Li snorted: "Why are you asking questions? Can you tell me why you are suddenly so interested in our whereabouts?" Sam's ugly and flushed face came close to Qiao Li's face: "Listen carefully, Miss," his tone was ice-cold, "Someday you and I will have a chance to be alone together, it's so hot Get along, you know?—When you don't have a chance to play on Park Avenue, I will treat you well and promise to tear every bone out of your beautiful body. Answer questions and directly Yes, save the intimate greetings of those five people and six people, do you hear me clearly!"

Sam's onyx-like bright eyes shot straight into her eyes, and she laughed: "Okay...after the show tonight, Pluck will come to me, and we'll--we'll just come Here it is." "Stop making fools of me," Sam said.Bruno at the side could see clearly that Plaque was throwing a wink at Qiao Li over Sam's shoulder, "You guys walked in at around 2:30, where did you go before?" "Okay, you're so eager to eat people, aren't you? Of course we came back to the hotel, but I didn't say we went straight from the theater to the hotel, what I want to say is-I really don't want to tell you this , we're going to a speakeasy on Forty-fifth Street, and then we're coming back here."

"So you're saying there's no way you're going to take the Weehoken Ferry tonight, isn't that right? It was just before twelve o'clock." Prak moaned and whimpered. "You're in it too," Sam said, turning his face sharply. "You were there too. Someone saw you when the ferry approached the New Jersey shore, the two of you." Qiaoli and Plaque looked at each other in despair, the woman was calmer, she said slowly: "Okay, so what? It's not legal, right?" "A lot of them won't work," Samton asked. "Where are you going on the ferry?" "Oh, I didn't go anywhere, enjoy the wind, watch the scenery, and swim." Sam snorted coldly: "God," he said, "what are you idiots, babes? You expect me to believe this?" He stomped his foot, "I'm sick and sick of talking politely to you guys. , holy lady Sarah, holy wife of Abraham, you got on the ferry and disembarked from the shore of New Jersey, because, you two babes were following DeWitt's gang, weren't you!" Prak said timidly, "Qiao Li, let's confess to them, there is no other way to go." She glanced at Plaque contemptuously: "You are a useless sissy, you are so frightened that you have to fuck up before you even touch you, we didn't do anything illegal, did we? They can't do anything to us Isn't it? Then what are you shouting about?" "But Qiaoli—" Plaque spread his hands, and was degraded and didn't know where to start. Sam was happy to let the man and woman dog bite the dog. He had been paying attention to the pearl handbag on the table for a long time. Taking advantage of this spare time, he took it over and weighed it with his hands... The internal strife suddenly stopped miraculously, Qiao Li Seeing the heavy handbag go up and down, up and down and up and down in Sam's hands... "Give it back to me." She yelled angrily. "It's heavy, isn't it?" Sam grinned, "It's almost a ton, I'm really curious..." Sam's thick fingers quickly opened the handbag and stretched it over, Qiaoli saw it and let out a beast-like cry Pluck's face turned ashen for an instant, and he subconsciously wanted to rush up. Bruno, who had sharp eyes and quick hands, ran from the wall first and stood beside Sam. What Sam took out was a small-caliber revolver with a pearl handle. Sam skillfully opened the pistol and checked the revolving part of the cartridge. There were three bullets inside; Sam wrapped a pencil in a handkerchief and inserted it into the barrel, and found that Nothing was on the handkerchief; Sam sniffed the revolver again, shook his head, and threw the revolver on the table. "I have a license," said the actress, licking her lips. "Take a look." She went to the sideboard, opened the drawer, came back to the table quickly, and Sam checked the license and handed it back to her, and she sat down without saying anything. "Now, it's your turn," Sam turned to Pluck, "let's open the sunroof, what the hell are you trying to do with DeWitt's gang?" Qiaoli took a long breath: "What do you mean?" Plaque was stunned. "John DeWitt was shot dead on the West Coast Line train this evening," Bruno replied—for the first time since entering the door: "Murder." The four lips mechanically repeated Bruno's last two words, and the two looked at each other in confusion and horror. "Who did it?" the woman asked in a low voice. "Don't you two know?" Qiao Li's plump lips were really trembling at this moment, and Plaque suddenly stepped forward, which startled Sam and Bruno—he rushed to the table before Sam recovered. Beside, grab the little revolver.Bruno on the side shouted to stop, Sam reached for the holster, and the actress screamed.But instead of going any further into the earth-shattering climax, Placker holds the weapon upside down by the barrel, so that Sam's right hand also rests on the holster. "Look!" Pluck said anxiously, and he pointed the gun towards Sam with his trembling hands. "Take a good look at the bullets in it. It's not live ammunition—it's all empty!" Sam took the gun. "It's blank, that's right." He said softly, and Bruno noticed that Qiao Li was looking at Plaque strangely, as if she had never seen this person before. Prak was a little incoherent with excitement: "I changed the bullets last week. I did it by myself. Qiao Li didn't know. I——I don't like her running around with a real revolver, woman—woman Never mind that kind of thing.” "Pulak, why are you only loading three bullets?" Bruno asked, "After all, there is another possibility, that is, there was live ammunition in the empty chamber, isn't it?" "But I'm telling you no, no!" Pluck yelled, "I don't know why I didn't fill up the blanks, but I just didn't, and we didn't take that bus tonight, we just went to The pier turned around and took the ferry back to New York, Qiaoli, do you think so?" She nodded numbly. Sam took the bag again: "Have you bought a train ticket?" "No, we're not even one step closer to the ticket gate or the station." "But you followed DeWitt's group, right?" Pluck's left eyelid twitched nervously, which was a bit funny, and the beating speed continued to increase, but Pluck was closing his mouth like a turtle at the moment, and Qiao Li was drooping his eyelids, staring at the carpet under his feet . Sam walked into the dark bedroom, and after a while, he came out, empty-handed; then, he searched the living room again in a bravado, but no one spoke; finally, he turned without a word, and walked heavily towards the door .Bruno said: "Please come as you pass, this is something you can't joke about, both of you." After he finished speaking, he followed Sam out of the room and walked up the aisle. A group of detectives waiting outside greeted Sam and Bruno expectantly, but Sam only waved his hand and led the way to the elevator, while Bruno followed in frustration. "Why didn't you impound that revolver?" Bruno asked. Sam pushed a thick finger on the elevator button. "What good is that to us?" he said irritably.The security personnel of the hotel also came over at this time, the sorrow on their faces deepened, and Officer Duffy also came over and waited side by side.Sam added, "Not helpful. Dr. Schelling said DeWitt's wound was from a .38 and Cholly's revolver was from a .22."