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"Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing man. I know him from the photograph."
"天啊！"巡官叫道，"真的，他就是那个失踪的人。我从相片上认出他。"
The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons himself to his destiny.
那囚犯转过身来，摆出一副听天由命、不在乎的架势。
"Be it so," said he. "And pray, what am I charged with?"
"就算这样吧，"他说，"请问，能控告我犯了什么罪？"
"With making away with Mr. Neville St...
"控告你犯了杀害内维尔·圣...
Oh, come, you can't be charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of it," said the inspector with a grin.
哦，除非他们把这案件当做自杀未遂案，他们就不会控告你犯了这个罪。"巡官咧嘴笑着说。
"Well, I have been twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake."
"哼，我当了二十七年的警察了，这次可真该得奖了。"
"If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally detained."
"如果我是内维尔·圣克莱尔先生，那么，显然我就没犯什么罪。因此，我是受到非法拘留。"
"No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said Holmes.
"不犯罪，却犯了一个很大的错误！"福尔摩斯说，
"You would have done better to have trusted your wife."
"你要是信得过你的妻子的话，你就会干得更好些。"
"It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner.
"倒不是我的妻子，而是我的儿女，"那囚犯发出呻吟的声音说，
"God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father.
"上帝保佑，我不愿他们为他们的父亲所做的事而感到耻辱。
My God! What an exposure! What can I do?"
天哪！讲出去多么难堪啊！我可怎么办呢？"
