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I got into his room that same night, though,
那天晚上，我偷進了他的屋子，
and I searched his papers to see if there was any record of where he had hidden our jewels.
做了搜查，想從他的文件里找出他藏寶的地點，
There was not a line, however, so I came away, bitter and savage as a man could be.
可是結果什么線索也沒有得到。
Before I left I bethought me that if I ever met my Sikh friends again
在我離開之前，我想到倘若日后看見我的三個同伙，
it would be a satisfaction to know that I had left some mark of our hatred;
可以告訴他們曾為報仇留下了標記，
so I scrawled down the sign of the four of us, as it had been on the chart, and I pinned it on his bosom.
我就把和圖上相同的四個簽名留下，別在他的胸前。
It was too much that he should be taken to the grave without some token from the men whom he had robbed and befooled.
在埋葬他以前，受過他劫奪和欺騙的人不給他留點痕跡，未免太便宜他了。
We earned a living at this time by my exhibiting poor Tonga at fairs and other such places as the black cannibal.
自此以后，我依靠著在市集或其他類似的地方，把童格當作吃人黑生番公開展覽，來維持生活。
He would eat raw meat and dance his war-dance: so we always had a hatful of pennies after a day's work.
他能吃生肉，跳生番的戰舞，所以每天工作以后總能收入滿滿一帽子的銅板。
I still heard all the news from Pondicherry Lodge,
我也常常聽到櫻沼別墅的消息。
and for some years there was no news to hear, except that they were hunting for the treasure.
幾年來，除了他們還在那里覓寶以外，沒有什么特別的消息。
At last, however, came what we had waited for so long. The treasure had been found.
直到最后，我們渴待的消息來到了，寶物已經尋到了。
It was up at the top of the house in Mr. Bartholomew Sholto's chemical laboratory.
就在巴索洛謬·舒爾托的化學實驗室的屋頂內。
