银色马 12

“Excuse me,” said he, turning to Colonel Ross, who had looked at him in some surprise. “I was day-dreaming.” There was a gleam in his eyes and a suppressed excitement in his manner which convinced me, used as I was to his ways, that his hand was upon a clue, though I could not imagine where he had found it.

“Perhaps you would prefer at once to go on to the scene of the crime, Mr. Holmes?” said Gregory.

“I think that I should prefer to stay here a little and go into one or two questions of detail. Straker was brought back here, I presume?”

“Yes, he lies upstairs. The inquest is to-morrow.”

“He has been in your service some years, Colonel Ross?”

“I have always found him an excellent servant.”

“I presume that you made an inventory¹ of what he had in his pockets at the time of his death, Inspector²?”

“I have the things themselves in the sitting-room³ if you would care to see them.”

“I should be very glad.” We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the inspector unlocked a square tin box and laid a small heap of things before us. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch⁴ of sealskin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an aluminum⁵ pencil-case, a few papers, and an ivory-handled knife with a very delicate, inflexible⁶ blade marked Weiss & Co., London.

   “对不起，”福尔摩斯把身体转向罗斯上校，罗斯上校正惊奇地望着他，福尔摩斯说道，“我正在幻想。”他的双眼发出异样的光彩，尽力抑制着兴奋的心情，我根据以往的经验，知道他已经有了线索，但想不出他是从什么地方找到那线索的。

    “也许你愿意立刻就到犯罪现场去吧？福尔摩斯先生，”格雷戈里说道。

    “我想我还是先在这里稍停一停，查清一两个细节问题。我看，斯特雷克的尸体已经抬回到这里了吧？”

    “是的，就在楼上。明天才能验尸。”

    “他在你这里服务多年了吧？罗斯上校。”

    “对，我一直觉得他是一个出色的仆人。”

    “警长，我想你已经检查过死者衣袋里的东西并列了清单吧？

    “我把东西都放在起居室里，你如果愿意看，就去看吧。”

    “那太好啦。”

    我们都走进前厅，围着中间的一张桌子坐下来，警长打开了一个方形锡盒，把一些东西放在我们面前。这里有一盒火柴，一根两英寸长的蜡烛，一支用欧石南根制成的ＡＤＰ牌烟斗，一个海豹皮烟袋，里面装着半盎司切得长长的板烟丝，一块带金表链的银怀表，五个一英镑金币，一个铝制铅笔盒，几张纸，一把象牙柄小刀，刀刃非常精致、坚硬，上面刻着伦敦韦斯公司字样。

1 inventory   

n.详细目录，存货清单

参考例句：

• Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
• We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。

2 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

3 sitting-room   

n.（BrE）客厅，起居室

参考例句：

• The sitting-room is clean.起居室很清洁。
• Each villa has a separate sitting-room.每栋别墅都有一间独立的起居室。

4 pouch   

n.小袋，小包，囊状袋；vt.装...入袋中，用袋运输；vi.用袋送信件

参考例句：

• He was going to make a tobacco pouch out of them. 他要用它们缝制一个烟草袋。
• The old man is always carrying a tobacco pouch with him.这老汉总是随身带着烟袋。

5 aluminum   

n.(aluminium)铝

参考例句：

• The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
• During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段，它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。

6 inflexible   

adj.不可改变的，不受影响的，不屈服的

参考例句：

• Charles was a man of settled habits and inflexible routine.查尔斯是一个恪守习惯、生活规律不容打乱的人。
• The new plastic is completely inflexible.这种新塑料是完全不可弯曲的。