通译双语文库:斯泰尔斯庄园奇案Chapter 10 The Arrest

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To my extreme annoyance, Poirot was not in, and the old Belgian who answered my knock informed me that he believed he had gone to London.

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I was dumbfounded. What on earth could Poirot be doing in London! Was it a sudden decision on his part, or had he already made up his mind when he parted from me a few hours earlier?

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I retraced my steps to Styles in some annoyance. With Poirot away, I was uncertain how to act. Had he foreseen this arrest? Had he not, in all probability, been the cause of it? Those questions I could not resolve. But in the meantime what was I to do? Should I announce the arrest openly at Styles, or not?

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Though I did not acknowledge it to myself, the thought of Mary Cavendish was weighing on me. Would it not be a terrible shock to her? For the moment, I set aside utterly any suspicions of her. She could not be implicated--otherwise I should have heard some hint of it.

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Of course, there was no possibility of being able permanently to conceal Dr. Bauerstein's arrest from her. It would be announced in every newspaper on the morrow. Still, I shrank from blurting it out. If only Poirot had been accessible, I could have asked his advice. What possessed him to go posting off to London in this unaccountable way?

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In spite of myself, my opinion of his sagacity was immeasurably heightened. I would never have dreamt of suspecting the doctor, had not Poirot put it into my head. Yes, decidedly, the little man was clever.

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After some reflecting, I decided to take John into my confidence, and leave him to make the matter public or not, as he thought fit.

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He gave vent to a prodigious whistle, as I imparted the news.

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"Great Scot! You _were_ right, then. I couldn't believe it at the time."

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"No, it is astonishing until you get used to the idea, and see how it makes everything fit in. Now, what are we to do? Of course, it will be generally known to-morrow."

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John reflected.

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"Never mind," he said at last, "we won't say anything at present. There is no need. As you say, it will be known soon enough."

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But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about "The Styles Poisoning Case," but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers. It worried me just a little, for it suggested the possibility that there might be further arrests to come.

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After breakfast, I decided to go down to the village, and see if Poirot had returned yet; but, before I could start, a well-known face blocked one of the windows, and the well-known voice said:

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"Bon jour, mon ami!"

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"Poirot," I exclaimed, with relief, and seizing him by both hands, I dragged him into the room. "I was never so glad to see anyone. Listen, I have said nothing to anybody but John. Is that right?"

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"My friend," replied Poirot, "I do not know what you are talking about."

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"Dr. Bauerstein's arrest, of course," I answered impatiently.

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"Is Bauerstein arrested, then?"

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"Did you not know it?"

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"Not the least in the world." But, pausing a moment, he added: "Still, it does not surprise me. After all, we are only four miles from the coast."

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"The coast?" I asked, puzzled. "What has that got to do with it?"

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Poirot shrugged his shoulders.

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"Surely, it is obvious!"

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"Not to me. No doubt I am very dense, but I cannot see what the proximity of the coast has got to do with the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp."

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"Nothing at all, of course," replied Poirot, smiling. "But we were speaking of the arrest of Dr. Bauerstein."

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"Well, he is arrested for the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp----"

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"What?" cried Poirot, in apparently lively astonishment. "Dr. Bauerstein arrested for the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp?"

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"Yes."

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"Impossible! That would be too good a farce! Who told you that, my friend?"

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"Well, no one exactly told me," I confessed. "But he is arrested."

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"Oh, yes, very likely. But for espionage, mon ami."

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"Espionage?" I gasped.

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"Precisely."

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"Not for poisoning Mrs. Inglethorp?"

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"Not unless our friend Japp has taken leave of his senses," replied Poirot placidly.

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"But--but I thought you thought so too?"

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Poirot gave me one look, which conveyed a wondering pity, and his full sense of the utter absurdity of such an idea.

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"Do you mean to say," I asked, slowly adapting myself to the new idea, "that Dr. Bauerstein is a spy?"

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Poirot nodded.

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"Have you never suspected it?"

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"It never entered my head."

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"It did not strike you as peculiar that a famous London doctor should bury himself in a little village like this, and should be in the habit of walking about at all hours of the night, fully dressed?"

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"No," I confessed, "I never thought of such a thing."

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"He is, of course, a German by birth," said Poirot thoughtfully, "though he has practiced so long in this country that nobody thinks of him as anything but an Englishman. He was naturalized about fifteen years ago. A very clever man--a Jew, of course."

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"The blackguard!" I cried indignantly.

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"Not at all. He is, on the contrary, a patriot. Think what he stands to lose. I admire the man myself."

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But I could not look at it in Poirot's philosophical way.

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"And this is the man with whom Mrs. Cavendish has been wandering about all over the country!" I cried indignantly.

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"Yes. I should fancy he had found her very useful," remarked Poirot. "So long as gossip busied itself in coupling their names together, any other vagaries of the doctor's passed unobserved."

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"Then you think he never really cared for her?" I asked eagerly--rather too eagerly, perhaps, under the circumstances.

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"That, of course, I cannot say, but--shall I tell you my own private opinion, Hastings?"

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"Yes."

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"Well, it is this: that Mrs. Cavendish does not care, and never has cared one little jot about Dr. Bauerstein!"

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"Do you really think so?" I could not disguise my pleasure.

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"I am quite sure of it. And I will tell you why."

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"Yes?"

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"Because she cares for some one else, mon ami."

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"Oh!" What did he mean? In spite of myself, an agreeable warmth spread over me. I am not a vain man where women are concerned, but I remembered certain evidences, too lightly thought of at the time, perhaps, but which certainly seemed to indicate----

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My pleasing thoughts were interrupted by the sudden entrance of Miss Howard. She glanced round hastily to make sure there was no one else in the room, and quickly produced an old sheet of brown paper. This she handed to Poirot, murmuring as she did so the cryptic words:

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①J·为约翰，L.为劳伦斯英文名字的起首字母。

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①英格兰北部一郡。

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①当时英国寄送邮件时间分早班、二班、末班等。

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①这句话借自莎士比亚的名剧《哈姆莱特》，该剧中，王子哈姆莱特常说的一句话本为：“干还是不干：这是问题。”但波洛说成了这样。

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Chapter 10 The Arrest|Chapter 10 The Arrest

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To my extreme annoyance, Poirot was not in, and the old Belgian who answered my knock informed me that he believed he had gone to London.

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I was dumbfounded. What on earth could Poirot be doing in London! Was it a sudden decision on his part, or had he already made up his mind when he parted from me a few hours earlier?

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Though I did not acknowledge it to myself, the thought of Mary Cavendish was weighing on me. Would it not be a terrible shock to her? For the moment, I set aside utterly any suspicions of her. She could not be implicated--otherwise I should have heard some hint of it.

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In spite of myself, my opinion of his sagacity was immeasurably heightened. I would never have dreamt of suspecting the doctor, had not Poirot put it into my head. Yes, decidedly, the little man was clever.

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After some reflecting, I decided to take John into my confidence, and leave him to make the matter public or not, as he thought fit.

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He gave vent to a prodigious whistle, as I imparted the news.

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"Great Scot! You _were_ right, then. I couldn't believe it at the time."

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"No, it is astonishing until you get used to the idea, and see how it makes everything fit in. Now, what are we to do? Of course, it will be generally known to-morrow."

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John reflected.

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"Never mind," he said at last, "we won't say anything at present. There is no need. As you say, it will be known soon enough."

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After breakfast, I decided to go down to the village, and see if Poirot had returned yet; but, before I could start, a well-known face blocked one of the windows, and the well-known voice said:

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"Bon jour, mon ami!"

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"Poirot," I exclaimed, with relief, and seizing him by both hands, I dragged him into the room. "I was never so glad to see anyone. Listen, I have said nothing to anybody but John. Is that right?"

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"My friend," replied Poirot, "I do not know what you are talking about."

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"Dr. Bauerstein's arrest, of course," I answered impatiently.

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"Is Bauerstein arrested, then?"

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"Did you not know it?"

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"Not the least in the world." But, pausing a moment, he added: "Still, it does not surprise me. After all, we are only four miles from the coast."

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"The coast?" I asked, puzzled. "What has that got to do with it?"

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Poirot shrugged his shoulders.

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"Surely, it is obvious!"

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"Not to me. No doubt I am very dense, but I cannot see what the proximity of the coast has got to do with the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp."

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"Nothing at all, of course," replied Poirot, smiling. "But we were speaking of the arrest of Dr. Bauerstein."

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"Well, he is arrested for the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp----"

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"What?" cried Poirot, in apparently lively astonishment. "Dr. Bauerstein arrested for the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp?"

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"Yes."

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"Impossible! That would be too good a farce! Who told you that, my friend?"

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"Well, no one exactly told me," I confessed. "But he is arrested."

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"Oh, yes, very likely. But for espionage, mon ami."

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"Espionage?" I gasped.

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"Precisely."

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"Not for poisoning Mrs. Inglethorp?"

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"Not unless our friend Japp has taken leave of his senses," replied Poirot placidly.

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"But--but I thought you thought so too?"

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Poirot gave me one look, which conveyed a wondering pity, and his full sense of the utter absurdity of such an idea.

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"Do you mean to say," I asked, slowly adapting myself to the new idea, "that Dr. Bauerstein is a spy?"

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Poirot nodded.

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"Have you never suspected it?"