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认一下它们确实重获了自由似的。我现在仍然记得，当时，我看着

他，心中暗想，我几乎没见到过比他更为魁梧强壮的人了，而且那张
晒得黝黑的脸上展现出坚决而有活力的神情，就跟他的体力一样令人

惊异，不容忽视。

"If there's a vacant place for a chief of the police, I
reckon you are the man for it," he said, gazing with

undisguised admiration at my fellow-lodger. "The way you
kept on my trail was a caution."

“如果警察局长职位有空缺的话，我认为你是最合适的人选

了，”他注视着我的同伴，带着由衷的钦佩之情说，“你追查我这件案
子的方法是十分谨慎、周密的。”

"You had better come with me," said Holmes to the two
detectives.

“你们最好跟我一起来吧。”福尔摩斯对那两个侦探说道。

"I can drive you," said Lestrade.

“我来给你们赶车。”莱斯特雷德说。

"Good! and Gregson can come inside with me. You too,
Doctor, you have taken an interest in the case and may as

well stick to us."

“好！那么格雷格森可以和我坐到车里去。还有你，医生，你对于
这个案子已经发生了兴趣，所以最好也和我们一块儿走一趟吧。”

I assented gladly, and we all descended together. Our
prisoner made no attempt at escape, but stepped calmly
into the cab which had been his, and we followed him.

Lestrade mounted the box, whipped up the horse, and
brought us in a very short time to our destination. We were
ushered into a small chamber where a police Inspector
noted down our prisoner's name and the names of the men

with whose murder he had been charged. The official was a
white-faced unemotional man, who went through his duties