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All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the evening before I returned to Baker Street.
這一整天我忙于我的醫務工作，入暮很晚我才返回貝克街。
Sherlock Holmes had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he entered, looking pale and worn.
福爾摩斯還沒有回來。一直到快要十點鐘了，他才面色蒼白，精疲力盡地走了進來。
He walked up to the sideboard, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously,
他跑到碗柜旁邊，撕下一大塊面包，狼吞虎咽地嚼著，
washing it down with a long draught of water. "You are hungry," I remarked.
喝了一大杯水把它沖下去。"你餓了，"我說。
"Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since breakfast."
"餓極啦！一直忘記吃東西了，早餐后就什么也沒吃。"
"Nothing?" "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it."
"沒吃東西？""一點也沒吃，沒功夫想到它。"
"And how have you succeeded?" "Well." "You have a clue?"
"進展如何？""不錯。""有線索了嗎？"
"I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not long remain unavenged.
"他們在我的掌握之中了。小奧彭肖的仇不會報不了的。
Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish trade- mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "What do you mean?"
嘿，華生，讓咱們以仆人之道，還治仆人之身。這是經過深思熟慮的??！""你這是什么意思？"
He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he squeezed out the pips upon the table.
他從碗柜里拿出一只桔子來，掰成幾瓣兒，把桔核擠出來，放在桌上。
Of these he took five and thrust them into an envelope.
他從中選了五個，裝到一個信封里面。
On the inside of the flap he wrote "S. H. for J. O."
在那信封口蓋的反面，他寫上"S.H.代J.O."。
Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain James Calhoun, Bark Lone Star, Savannah, Georgia."
他封上信封，在上面寫上"美國，佐治亞洲，薩凡納，'孤星號' 三桅帆船，詹姆斯·卡爾霍恩船長收"等字樣。
"That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling.
"當他進港時這封信已經在等著他了，"他得意地笑著說，
"It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him."
"這封信會使他夜不安眠。他還會發覺這封信肯定是他死亡的預兆，正如奧彭肖從前所遭遇到的情況一樣。"
