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"Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you not come at once?"
"那么，為什么您來找我？"他叫道，"再說更重要的是，為什么您不一開始就來找我？"
"I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major Prendergast about my troubles
"我不知道啊。只是到了今天，我向普倫德加斯特少校談了我的困境，
and was advised by him to come to you."
他才勸我來找您的。"
"It is really two days since you had the letter.
"您接到了信已經整整過了兩天。
We should have acted before this.
我們應當在此之前采取行動。
You have no further evidence, I suppose, than that which you have placed before us
我估計您除了那些已經向我提供的情節以外，沒有更進一步的憑證
no suggestive detail which might help us?"
沒有什么可以對我們有用的帶有啟發性的細節了吧。"
"There is one thing," said John Openshaw.
"有一件，"約翰·奧彭肖說。
He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table.
他在上衣口袋里翻找了一番以后，掏出了一張褪色的藍紙，攤開放在桌上。
"I have some remembrance," said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers
"我有些記得，"他說，"那一天，我的伯父在焚燒文件的時候，
I observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the ashes were of this particular colour.
我看見紙灰堆里有一些小的沒有燒著的文件的紙邊是這種特殊的顏色的。
I found this single sheet upon the floor of his room,
我在我伯父的屋子里的地板上發現這張紙。
and I am inclined to think that it may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from among the others,
我傾向于這樣的想法：它是從一疊紙里掉下來的，
and in that way has escaped destruction.
所以沒被焚燒掉。
Beyond the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much.
紙上除了提到桔核之外，恐怕它對我們幫助不大。
I think myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is undoubtedly my uncle's."
我想它也許是私人日記里的一頁，字跡毫無疑問是我伯父的。"
