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兰斯猛然跳起来，满脸惊讶地盯着福尔摩斯。

"Why, that's true, sir," he said; "though how you come

to know it, Heaven only knows. Ye see, when I got up to the
door it was so still and so lonesome, that I thought I'd be
none the worse for someone with me. I ain't afeared of

anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe
it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains
what killed him. The thought gave me a kind o' turn, and I
walked back to the gate to see if I could see Murcher's
lantern, but there wasn't no sign of him nor of anyone else."

“天啊，确实是那样，先生，”他说，“可天晓得你怎么知道的。
你看，当我走到门口的时候，一切都太安静、太冷清了，我想最好还

是找一个人跟我一起去。我并不害怕这个世上的什么东西，但我想可
能是那个死于伤寒病的人在察看那个要了他命的下水道。想到这儿，

我吓了一跳，于是就转身向大门走去，看看是不是能望见默彻的提
灯，可是连他的影子也没瞧见，也没看见别人。”

"There was no one in the street?"

“街上一个人都没有吗？”

"Not a livin' soul, sir, nor as much as a dog. Then I

pulled myself together and went back and pushed the door
open. All was quiet inside, so I went into the room where the
light was a-burnin'. There was a candle flickerin' on the

mantelpiece—a red wax one—and by its light I saw—"

“一个人影都没有，先生，连条狗都没有。于是，我鼓起勇气，走
回去把门推开。里面静悄悄的，于是，我走到灯亮着的那个房间。壁

炉台上点着一支蜡烛，还是一支红蜡烛，在烛光下，我看到——”

"Yes, I know all that you saw. You walked round the room

several times, and you knelt down by the body, and then
you walked through and tried the kitchen door, and then—"

“是的，我知道你都看到了什么。你在屋中走了几圈，在尸体旁跪

了下来，然后走过去推了推厨房的门，接着——”