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Not a word about the jewels came out at the trial,
在審訊中沒有人談到寶物，
for the rajah had been deposed and driven out of India: so no one had any particular interest in them.
因為那個土王已被罷黜并被逐出了印度，已經沒有人對寶物有直接的關系了。
The murder, however, was clearly made out, and it was certain that we must all have been concerned in it.
可是謀殺案情確鑿，判定我們四人同為兇手。
The three Sikhs got penal servitude for life, and I was condemned to death,
三個印度人被判徒刑終身監禁，我被判死刑，
though my sentence was afterwards commuted to the same as the others.
可是后來得到減刑，和他們一樣。
It was rather a queer position that we found ourselves in then.
我們的處境很是奇怪。
There we were all four tied by the leg and with precious little chance of ever getting out again,
我們四個人被判徒刑，恐怕今生再難恢復自由，
while we each held a secret which might have put each of us in a palace if we could only have made use of it.
可是同時我們四個人又共同保守著一個秘密。只要能夠利用寶物，就可以立成富翁享清福。
It was enough to make a man eat his heart out to have to stand the kick and the cuff of every petty jack-in-office,
最讓人難忍受的就是受每個禁卒的任意凌辱
to have rice to eat and water to drink,
還要吃些糙米，喝口涼水，
when that gorgeous fortune was ready for him outside, just waiting to be picked up.
而那時我們卻明知大宗寶物在外面等著我們取用。
It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.
我真要急得發瘋，所幸我生性倔強，所以還能耐心忍受，等候時機。
At last it seemed to me to have come.
最后，好象時機到了。
I was changed from Agra to Madras, and from there to Blair Island in the Andamans.
我由阿格拉被轉押到馬德拉斯，又從那里被轉到安達曼群島的布雷爾島。
There are very few white convicts at this settlement,
島上白種人囚犯很少，
and, as I had behaved well from the first, I soon found myself a sort of privileged person.
又因為我一開始就表現得不錯，不久就受到了特殊的待遇。
I was given a hut in Hope Town, which is a small place on the slopes of Mount Harriet, and I was left pretty much to myself.
在亥瑞厄特山麓的好望城里，我得到了一間自己居住的小茅屋，很是自在。
