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the box back with you to the Baker Street rooms. You will
find us there, on our way to the station."

“哼！你给我们带来这个麻烦真是没意义。为了你，我们已经费了

不少气力了。可是医生，我不必再叮嘱您了，千万小心。您回来的时

候，把箱子带到贝克街去。在去警察局以前，我们会在那里。”

They landed me at Vauxhall, with my heavy iron box,
and with a bluff, genial inspector as my companion. A

quarter of an hour's drive brought us to Mrs. Cecil
Forrester's. The servant seemed surprised at so late a
visitor. Mrs. Cecil Forrester was out for the evening, she
explained, and likely to be very late. Miss Morstan, however,
was in the drawing-room; so to the drawing-room I went,

box in hand, leaving the obliging inspector in the cab.

我在沃克斯霍尔下了船，带着沉重的铁箱，由一个温和、坦率的
警官陪伴着。赶了一刻钟车以后，我们到达了塞西尔·福里斯特夫人的

家。对于有客人深夜来访，仆人感到很惊讶。她说，福里斯特夫人不

在家中，恐怕到很晚才能回来。但摩斯坦小姐现在还在客厅里，于
是，我把那位热心的警官留在车上等候，自己提着宝箱，走向客厅。

She was seated by the open window, dressed in some
sort of white diaphanous material, with a little touch of
scarlet at the neck and waist. The soft light of a shaded
lamp fell upon her as she leaned back in the basket chair,
playing over her sweet grave face, and tinting with a dull,

metallic sparkle the rich coils of her luxuriant hair. One
white arm and hand drooped over the side of the chair, and
her whole pose and figure spoke of an absorbing

melancholy. At the sound of my footfall she sprang to her
feet, however, and a bright flush of surprise and of pleasure
coloured her pale cheeks.

她坐在打开的窗户旁，穿着白色半透明的衣服，在颈间和腰际都

系着红色的带子。一盏带罩子的台灯照射出柔和的灯光，落在她身
上，她正倚坐在一张藤椅上，灯光轻抚着她美丽、庄重的脸庞，给她