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"I should be most happy to go down with you if I should not be in the way," said I.
"要是我不妨礙你的話，我很愿和你一同去。"
"My dear Watson, you would confer a great favour upon me by coming.
"親愛的華生，你能和我一同去，那我非常高興。
And I think that your time will not be misspent, for there are points about the case which promise to make it an absolutely unique one.
我想你此去決不會白白浪費時間的，因為這件案子有一些特點，看來它可能是極為獨特的。
We have, I think, just time to catch our train at Paddington, and I will go further into the matter upon our journey.
我想，我們到帕丁頓剛好能趕上火車，在路上我再把這件案子的情況詳細談一談。
You would oblige me by bringing with you your very excellent field-glass."
你最好能把你那個雙筒望遠鏡帶上。"
And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter,
一小時以后，我們已坐在駛往埃克塞特的頭等車廂里，
while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling-cap,
一頂帶護耳的旅行帽掩住福爾摩斯那張輪廓分明的面孔，
dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington.
他正在匆匆瀏覽他在帕丁頓車站買到的一堆當天報紙。
We had left Reading far behind us before he thrust the last one of them under the seat and offered me his cigar-case.
我們早已過了雷丁站很遠，他把最后看的那張報紙塞在座位下面，拿出香煙盒來讓我吸煙。
"We are going well," said he, looking out of the window and glancing at his watch.
"我們行進得很快，"福爾摩斯望著窗外，看了看表說道。
"Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour."
"現在我們每小時的車速是五十三英里半。"
"I have not observed the quarter-mile posts," said I.
"我沒有注意數四分之一英里的路桿，"我說道。
"Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one.
"我也沒注意。可是這條鐵路線附近電線桿的間隔是六十碼，所以計算起來很簡單。
I presume that you have looked into this matter of the murder of John Straker and the disappearance of Silver Blaze?"
我想你對于約翰·斯特雷克被害和銀色白額馬失蹤的事，已經知道了吧。"
"I have seen what the Telegraph and the Chronicle have to say."
"我已經看到電訊和新聞報道了。"
