), but when Martins had said good-night and rung off (но когда Мартинс сказал доброй ночи и повесил трубку;
to ring off — повесить трубку; to ring — звонить), he couldn't help wondering (он не мог не удивиться: «он не мог помочь удивляться») how it was that if Harry had been so conscious before he died (как это было =
как так получилось, что если Гарри был в таком ясном сознании: «был такой сознательный прежде чем он умер») he had not had a cable sent to stop him (он не послал телеграмму, чтобы остановить его). Hadn't Callaghan too said (не сказал ли Каллахан тоже) that Lime had died instantaneously (что Лайм умер мгновенно)—or without pain (или без боли), was it (было это = разве не так)? or had he himself put the words into Callaghan's mouth (или он сам вложил эти слова в уста Каллахана)? It was then (это было тогда = именно тогда) that the idea first lodged firmly in Martins' mind (что та мысль впервые обосновалась в мыслях Мартинса;
mind — разум, рассудок) that there was something wrong about Lime's death (что там было что-то неправильное в: «вокруг» смерти Лайма), something the police had been too stupid to discover (что-то, что полиция была слишком тупой, чтобы раскрыть). He tried to discover it himself (он попытался раскрыть его сам) with the help of two cigarettes (с помощью двух сигарет), but he fell asleep without his dinner (но он заснул без своего ужина) and with the mystery still unsolved (и с тайной, все еще нерешенной). It had been a long day (это был долгий день), but not quite long enough for that (но не совсем долгий достаточно для этого = но недостаточно длинный, чтобы раскрыть тайну).
[ı`mi:dıət], foreign [`forın], caution [`ko:ʃən]
immediate [I'mi:diqt], earn [q:n], rapidly ['rxpIdlI], appointment [q'pOIntm(q)nt], recognise ['rekqgnaIz], particular [pq'tIkjulq], telephone ['telIfqun], foreign ['fOrIn], accent ['xks(q)nt], unnecessarily [An'nesIsqrIlI], suggest [sq'Gest], caution ['kO:Sqn], reasonable ['ri:znqbl], conscious ['kOnSqs], police [pq'li:s], cigarette ["sIgq'ret], asleep [q'sli:p], mystery ['mIstqrI]
Martins felt he had got all he could from Crabbin, so he pleaded tiredness, a long day, promised to ring up in the morning, accepted ten pounds' worth of Bafs for immediate expenses, and went to his room. It seemed to him that he was earning money rapidly —twelve pounds in less than an hour.
He was tired: he realised that when he stretched himself out on his bed in his boots. Within a minute he had left Vienna far behind him and was walking through a dense wood, ankle deep in snow. An owl hooted, and he felt suddenly lonely and scared. He had an appointment to meet Harry under a particular tree, but in a wood so dense as this how could he recognise any one tree from the rest? Then he saw a figure and ran towards it: it whistled a familiar tune and his heart lifted with the relief and joy at not after all being alone. Then the figure turned and it was not Harry at all—just a stranger who grinned at him in a little circle of wet slushy melted snow, while the owl hooted again and again. He woke suddenly to hear the telephone ringing by his bed.