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"Awake, Watson?" he asked. "Yes."
"醒了么，華生？"他問道。"醒了。"
"Game for a morning drive?" "Certainly."
"早上趕車出去玩玩如何？""好的！"
"Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out."
"那么，穿上衣服吧。誰都沒起哪，可是我知道那小馬僮睡覺的地方，我們很快就會把馬車弄出來的。"
He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled,
他邊說邊咯咯地笑了起來，兩眼閃爍著光芒，
and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night.
似乎和昨夜那個苦思冥想的他判若兩人。
As I dressed I glanced at my watch.
我穿衣時看了一下表。
It was no wonder that no one was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four.
難怪還沒有人品身，這時才四點二十五分。
I had hardly finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was putting in the horse.
我剛剛穿好衣服，福爾摩斯就回來說馬僮正在套車。
"I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his boots.
"我要檢驗一下我小小的理論，"他說，拉上他的靴子，
"I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe.
"華生，我認為你現在正站在全歐洲的一個最笨的糊涂蟲面前！
I deserve to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the key of the affair now."
我該被人們一腳從這兒踢到查林克羅斯去！可是我想我現在已經找到了開啟這個案子的這把鎖的鑰匙了。"
"And where is it?" I asked, smiling.
"在哪里？"我微笑著問道。
"In the bathroom," he answered.
"在盥洗室里，"他回答道，
"Oh, yes, I am not joking," he continued, seeing my look of incredulity.
"哦，我不是開玩笑。"他看見我有點不相信的樣子，就繼續說下去。
"I have just been there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Gladstone bag.
"我剛到那里去過，我已經把它拿出來了，放進格拉德斯通制造的軟提包里了。
Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will not fit the lock."
走吧，伙計，讓咱瞧瞧鑰匙對不對得上鎖。"
