福爾摩斯探案集·紅發(fā)會 第36期:逮捕罪犯(4)

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"But how could you guess what the motive was?"

"可是，你是怎么猜出他的動機的呢？"

"Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue.

"如果在那店鋪里有女人的話，我本來會懷疑無非是搞些庸俗的風流事。

That, however, was out of the question.

可是，根本不是那么回事。

The man's business was a small one,

這個當鋪老板做的是小本經(jīng)營的買賣，

and there was nothing in his house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and such an expenditure as they were at.

當鋪里沒有什么值錢的東西，值不得他們?nèi)绱司牟邉?，花那么多錢。

It must, then, be something out of the house. What could it be?

因此，他們的目標肯定不在當鋪。那么可能搞什么呢？

I thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar.

我想到這個伙計喜歡照相，想到他經(jīng)常出沒于地下室這個詭計。

The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue.

地下室！這就找到了這個錯綜復雜的案件的線索。

Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant

然后，我調(diào)查了這個神秘的伙計的情況。

and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London.

我發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的對手是倫敦頭腦最冷靜、膽子最大的罪犯之一，

He was doing something in the cellar–something which took many hours a day for months on end.

他在地下室里搞了名堂，而且要連續(xù)幾個月每天干許多小時才行。

What could it be, once more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel to some other building.

那再問一下，可能搞什么呢？我想除了挖一條通往其他樓房的地道以外，不可能是其他什么東西。

So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action.

當我們?nèi)ゲ炜醋靼傅攸c時，我心里就明白了。