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"I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, and the same thickness.
"我拿起頭發來細細地檢查。那罕有的色澤，密度，和我的一模一樣。
But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me.
眼睜睜不可能的事卻擺在我眼前。
How could my hair have been locked in the drawer?
我的頭發怎么會鎖在這個抽屜里呢？
With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair.
我雙手顫抖地將我的箱子打開，把里面的東西統統倒了出來，從箱子底抽出我自己的頭發。
I laid the two tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was it not extraordinary?
我把兩綹放在一起，我敢向你們保證，它們完全一樣。這不是很離奇嗎？
Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at all of what it meant.
我真是莫名其妙，我想不出這是什么道理。
I returned the strange hair to the drawer,
我把那綹奇怪的頭發放回到抽屜里，
and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had locked.
對魯卡斯爾夫婦只字不提這件事，因為我覺得打開他們鎖上的抽屜這件事做得不對。
I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head.
你可能注意到我是個天性喜歡留心觀察事物的人，福爾摩斯先生，不久我在腦子里對整個房子就有了一個很清楚的輪廓。
There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited at all.
有一邊的廂房看來根本就沒有人住。
A door which faced that which led into the quarters of the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked.
托勒一家住處的通道對面的一扇門可以通向這套廂房，但是這扇門總是鎖著的。
One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle coming out through this door, his keys in his hand,
可是有一天我正上樓時，碰見魯卡斯爾先生從這扇門里走出來，手里拿著鑰匙，
and a look on his face which made him a very different person to the round, jovial man to whom I was accustomed.
看他那時的臉和我平時慣常看到的胖胖的、愉快的樣子儼然判若兩人。
His cheeks were red, his brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his temples with passion.
他因發怒面兩頰漲得通紅，眉頭緊皺著，激動得太陽穴兩旁青筋畢露。
He locked the door and hurried past me without a word or a look."
他鎖好那扇門后急急地從我身邊走過，一言不發，也不看我一眼。"
