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Our morning's exertions had been too much for my
weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon. After

Holmes' departure for the concert, I lay down upon the sofa
and endeavoured to get a couple of hours' sleep. It was a
useless attempt. My mind had been too much excited by all
that had occurred, and the strangest fancies and surmises

crowded into it. Every time that I closed my eyes I saw
before me the distorted baboon-like countenance of the
murdered man. So sinister was the impression which that
face had produced upon me that I found it difficult to feel

anything but gratitude for him who had removed its owner
from the world. If ever human features bespoke vice of the
most malignant type, they were certainly those of Enoch J.
Drebber, of Cleveland. Still I recognized that justice must be

done, and that the depravity of the victim was no
condonement in the eyes of the law.

一上午的忙碌让我虚弱的身体有些吃不消，所以，下午我就感到

精疲力竭了。福尔摩斯出去听音乐会后，我躺在沙发上，努力想睡几
个小时。但是徒劳无功。发生的种种事情让我心情过于激动，我的脑

子里充满各种古怪的想法和猜测。每次闭上眼睛，我就会看见被害者
的那张脸——他那张脸扭曲得像狒狒一样。那张脸给我的印象是那么

邪恶，以至于对那个把脸的主人从世上除掉了的凶手，除了感激，我
很难有其他感觉。如果真有人的相貌能表现恶贯满盈者的罪行，那么

这相貌一定就是这位克利夫兰城的伊诺克·J. 德雷伯的。虽然如此，但
我仍认为正义应得到伸张，从法律上讲，被害人的邪恶并不能用来赦

免凶手的罪。

The more I thought of it the more extraordinary did my

companion's hypothesis, that the man had been poisoned,