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appear. I remembered how he had sniffed his lips, and had
no doubt that he had detected something which had given

rise to the idea. Then, again, if not poison, what had caused
the man's death, since there was neither wound nor marks
of strangulation? But, on the other hand, whose blood was
that which lay so thickly upon the floor? There were no signs
of a struggle, nor had the victim any weapon with which he

might have wounded an antagonist. As long as all these
questions were unsolved, I felt that sleep would be no easy
matter, either for Holmes or myself. His quiet self-confident

manner convinced me that he had already formed a theory
which explained all the facts, though what it was I could not
for an instant conjecture.

我的同伴推断此人是中毒而死的,我越想越觉得，这个假设非同寻

常。我记得福尔摩斯嗅过死者的嘴唇，我确信他发现了一些东西，让
他有了这种想法。况且，如果不是被毒死的，而身上又没有伤痕或勒

死的迹象，那么是什么导致了这个人的死亡呢？可另一方面，地板上
那一大摊血又是谁的呢？屋子里没有发现扭打的痕迹，受害者也没有

任何用来击伤敌人的武器。我觉得，只要这些问题得不到解答，不管
是福尔摩斯还是我自己，要想安心睡觉都不是一件容易的事。他那镇

静、自信的神态让我相信，他早有了一套推理来解释所有事情，尽管

我一时还不能猜测出来是什么。

He was very late in returning—so late, that I knew that
the concert could not have detained him all the time. Dinner

was on the table before he appeared.

他回来得很晚——非常晚，因此我知道，并不是音乐会让他耽搁
了那么久。他回来前，晚饭就已经摆在桌子上了。

"It was magnificent," he said, as he took his seat. "Do
you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims
that the power of producing and appreciating it existed
among the human race long before the power of speech

was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly