巴斯克维尔的猎犬 沼地的惨剧（18）

 

"A beard! A beard! The man has a beard!"

“胡子！ 胡子！ 这人有胡子！”

"A beard?"

“有胡子？ ”

"It is not the baronet -- it is -- why, it is my neighbour, the convict!"“这不是准男爵——这是——啊， 这是我的邻居， 那个逃犯！”

With feverish haste we had turned the body over, and that dripping beard was pointing up tothe cold, clear moon. There could be no doubt about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes.

It was indeed the same face which had glared upon me in the light of the candle from over therock -- the face of Selden, the criminal.

我赶快把死尸翻了过来， 那撮滴嗒着血的胡须向着冰冷而清澈的月亮翘着。 一看他那突出的前额和野兽般地深陷的眼睛就不会弄错， 确实就是那天在烛光照耀之中从石头后面闪露在我眼前的那张面孔——逃犯塞尔丹的面孔。

Then in an instant it was all clear to me. I remembered how the baronet had told me that hehad handed his old wardrobe to Barrymore. Barrymore had passed it on in order to help Selden inhis escape. Boots, shirt, cap -- it was all Sir Henry's. The tragedy was still black enough, but thisman had at least deserved death by the laws of his country. I told Holmes how the matter stood,my heart bubbling over with thankfulness and joy.

我马上就都明白了， 我记起了准男爵曾经告诉过我， 他曾把他的旧衣服送给了白瑞摩。

白瑞摩把这些衣服转送了出去， 好帮助塞尔丹逃跑， 靴子、 衬衣、 帽子——全都是亨利爵士的。 这出悲剧演得是够惨的， 可是根据国家的法律， 这个人至少是死得不冤的。 我把事情的来由告诉了福尔摩斯， 我对上帝的感激和我内心的快乐使我的满腔热血都为之沸腾起来了。

"Then the clothes have been the poor devil's death," said he. "It is clear enough that thehound has been laid on from some article of Sir Henry's -- the boot which was abstracted in thehotel, in all probability -- and so ran this man down. There is one very singular thing, however:

How came Selden, in the darkness, to know that the hound was on his trail?"“那么说， 这身衣服就是那恶棍致死的原因了 ， ” 他说道，“问题很清楚， 那只猎狗是先闻了亨利爵士穿用的东西之后， 才被放出来进行追踪的——最可能的就是那只在旅馆里被偷去的高筒皮鞋——因此这个人才被穷追不舍， 直到摔死为止。 可是有一点非常奇怪： 塞尔丹在黑暗之中怎么会知道那狗跟在他身后的呢？ ”