银色马 12

（单词翻译）

“Excuse me,” said he, turning to Colonel Ross, who had looked at him in some surprise. “I was day-dreaming.” There was a gleam in his eyes and a suppressed excitement in his manner which convinced me, used as I was to his ways, that his hand was upon a clue, though I could not imagine where he had found it.

“Perhaps you would prefer at once to go on to the scene of the crime, Mr. Holmes?” said Gregory.

“I think that I should prefer to stay here a little and go into one or two questions of detail. Straker was brought back here, I presume?”

“Yes, he lies upstairs. The inquest is to-morrow.”

“He has been in your service some years, Colonel Ross?”

“I have always found him an excellent servant.”

“I presume that you made an inventory¹ of what he had in his pockets at the time of his death, Inspector²?”

“I have the things themselves in the sitting-room³ if you would care to see them.”

“I should be very glad.” We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the inspector unlocked a square tin box and laid a small heap of things before us. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch⁴ of sealskin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminum⁵ pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible⁶ blade marked Weiss & Co., London.

   “对不起，”福尔摩斯把身体转向罗斯上校，罗斯上校正惊奇地望着他，福尔摩斯说道，“我正在幻想。”他的双眼发出异样的光彩，尽力抑制着兴奋的心情，我根据以往的经验，知道他已经有了线索，但想不出他是从什么地方找到那线索的。

    “也许你愿意立刻就到犯罪现场去吧？福尔摩斯先生，”格雷戈里说道。

    “我想我还是先在这里稍停一停，查清一两个细节问题。我看，斯特雷克的尸体已经抬回到这里了吧？”

    “是的，就在楼上。明天才能验尸。”

    “他在你这里服务多年了吧？罗斯上校。”

    “对，我一直觉得他是一个出色的仆人。”

    “警长，我想你已经检查过死者衣袋里的东西并列了清单吧？

    “我把东西都放在起居室里，你如果愿意看，就去看吧。”

    “那太好啦。”

    我们都走进前厅，围着中间的一张桌子坐下来，警长打开了一个方形锡盒，把一些东西放在我们面前。这里有一盒火柴，一根两英寸长的蜡烛，一支用欧石南根制成的ＡＤＰ牌烟斗，一个海豹皮烟袋，里面装着半盎司切得长长的板烟丝，一块带金表链的银怀表，五个一英镑金币，一个铝制铅笔盒，几张纸，一把象牙柄小刀，刀刃非常精致、坚硬，上面刻着伦敦韦斯公司字样。