福爾摩斯探案集·四簽名 第73期:兇手的末日(6)

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"It is just these very simple things which are extremely liable to be overlooked. However, I determined to act on the idea.

"正因?yàn)楹芎?jiǎn)單，才容易被忽略了。于是我決定照著這個(gè)途徑去進(jìn)行偵查。

I started at once in this harmless seaman's rig and inquired at all the yards down the river.

我立刻穿了一身水手的服裝到下游的每個(gè)船塢里去詢(xún)問(wèn)。

I drew blank at fifteen, but at the sixteenth--Jacobson's

問(wèn)了十五個(gè)船塢全失敗了，可是問(wèn)到第十六個(gè)--杰克勃森船塢

I learned that the Aurora had been handed over to them two days ago by a wooden-legged man, with some trivial directions as to her rudder.

得知在兩天前曾有一個(gè)裝木腿的人把'曙光'號(hào)送進(jìn)船塢修理船舵。

'There ain't naught amiss with her rudder,' said the foreman. 'There she lies, with the red streaks.'

那里的工頭和我說(shuō)：'就是那個(gè)畫(huà)著紅線(xiàn)的船舵，其實(shí)一點(diǎn)兒毛病也沒(méi)有。'

At that moment who should come down but Mordecai Smith, the missing owner. He was rather the worse for liquor.

正說(shuō)著，從那邊來(lái)了一個(gè)人。不是別人，正是失蹤的船主茂迪凱·斯密司，他喝了不少的酒。

I should not, of course, have known him, but he bellowed out his name and the name of his launch.

我自然不會(huì)認(rèn)識(shí)他，是他喊出了自己的名字和船的名字，

'I want her to-night at eight o'clock,' said he 'eight o'clock sharp, mind, for I have two gentlemen who won't be kept waiting.'

并說(shuō)道：'今晚八點(diǎn)鐘我們的船要出塢去。記住了，準(zhǔn)八點(diǎn)鐘。有兩位客人要坐船，不要耽誤了。'

They had evidently paid him well, for he was very flush of money, chucking shillings about to the men.

匪徒們一定給了他不少的錢(qián)，他對(duì)工人們拍著他滿(mǎn)口袋的銀幣，叮當(dāng)作響。

I followed him some distance, but he subsided into an alehouse;

我跟蹤了他幾步，他跑進(jìn)了一家酒館。

so I went back to the yard, and, happening to pick up one of my boys on the way, I stationed him as a sentry over the launch.

于是我又回到船塢，在途中碰巧遇到了我的一個(gè)小幫手，我把他安置在那里，盯住汽船。

He is to stand at the water's edge and wave his handkerchief to us when they start.

讓他站在船塢的出口地方，預(yù)約定了，當(dāng)票船出塢的時(shí)節(jié)，向我們揮動(dòng)手巾作為暗號(hào)。

We shall be lying off in the stream, and it will be a strange thing if we do not take men, treasure, and all."

我們?cè)诤由闲幌?，看著他的去路，要不是人贓并獲那才是怪事呢。"