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Well, there's no use my telling you gentlemen what came of the Indian mutiny.
好啦，以后印度的叛變結果如何，也用不著我再來告訴你們諸位先生了。
After Wilson took Delhi and Sir Colin relieved Lucknow the back of the business was broken.
從威爾遜占領了德里，考林爵士收復了拉克瑙以后，叛亂就瓦解了。
Fresh troops came pouring in, and Nana Sahib made himself scarce over the frontier.
新的軍隊紛紛開到。納諾·薩希布在國境線上逃跑了，
A flying column under Colonel Greathed came round to Agra and cleared the Pandies away from it.
葛雷特亥德上校帶領著一個急行縱隊來到了阿格拉把叛兵肅清了，
Peace seemed to be settling upon the country,
全國似乎已經漸漸恢復了和氣狀態。
and we four were beginning to hope that the time was at hand when we might safely go off with our shares of the plunder.
我們四個人盼著不久就可以平分贓物、遠走高飛了，
In a moment, however, our hopes were shattered by our being arrested as the murderers of Achmet.
可是轉眼之間我們的希望就成了泡影，因為我們以殺害阿奇麥特的罪名全都被捕了。
It came about in this way.
事情是這樣發生的：
When the rajah put his jewels into the hands of Achmet he did it because he knew that he was a trusty man.
那土王因為信任阿奇麥特，才把寶物交給他。
They are suspicious folk in the East, however;
可是東方人疑心太大，
so what does this rajah do but take a second even more trusty servant and set him to play the spy upon the first.
那土王又派了一個更親信的仆人跟在后面，暗查阿奇麥特的行動，
This second man was ordered never to let Achmet out of his sight, and he followed him like his shadow.
并且命令這仆人要把阿奇麥特緊緊地盯住。那晚他在后面暗暗跟隨，
He went after him that night and saw him pass through the doorway.
眼看阿奇麥特走進了堡門。
Of course he thought he had taken refuge in the fort and applied for admission there himself next day, but could find no trace of Achmet.
他以為阿奇麥特在堡內已經安頓妥當，所以在第二天就設法進入堡內，可是怎樣也找不到阿奇麥特。
This seemed to him so strange that he spoke about it to a sergeant of guides,
他以為事情太離奇了，就和守衛的班長談了，
who brought it to the ears of the commandant.
班長又向司令官作了報告，
A thorough search was quickly made, and the body was discovered.
因此在全堡內立刻作了一次細密的搜查，發現了尸身。
Thus at the very moment that we thought that all was safe we were all four seized and brought to trial on a charge of murder
在我們還自以為安全的時候，就被以謀殺的罪名逮捕了
three of us because we had held the gate that night,
三個人是當時的守衛者，
and the fourth because he was known to have been in the company of the murdered man.
其余一人是和被害者同來的。
