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"The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly.
"這出戲算演完了，賴德，"福爾摩斯平靜地說。
"Hold up, man, or you'll be into the fire!
"站穩些，賴德，不然你就跌到壁爐里去了。
Give him an arm back into his chair, Watson.
扶他坐到他的椅子上去，華生。
He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity. Give him a dash of brandy.
他還沒有足夠的膽量泰然自若地去干罪惡的勾當。給他喝點白蘭地。
So! Now he looks a little more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!"
好了，現在他看起來有點人樣了。真的，他是一個多么瘦小的人哪！"
For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen,
俄而，他蹣跚地站起身來，但因站立不穩幾乎倒下，
but the brandy brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks,
可是白蘭地給他兩頰帶來了一些血色，
and he sat staring with frightened eyes at his accuser.
他又坐了下來，帶著恐懼的眼光盯著譴責他的人。
"I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I could possibly need,
"我幾乎已經完全掌握這個案子的每一個環節和我可能需要的一切證據，
so there is little which you need tell me.
所以沒有多少事情需要你告訴我的了。
Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case complete.
但是，為了圓滿地結束這件案子，我們也把那件小事弄清楚吧。
You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the Countess of Morcar's?"
賴德，你曾經聽說過莫卡伯爵夫人的藍寶石嗎？"
"It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a crackling voice.
"是凱瑟琳·丘薩克告訴我的。"他斷斷續續地說。
