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The Hotel Affair
The blue stone Peterson has brought is the blue carbuncle of the Countess of Morcar, recently advertised in the newspapers. On hearing that the reward is one thousand pounds, the commissionaire collapses into a chair. Holmes explains how greatly the countess values it and begins retracing the history of its disappearance.
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The blue stone Peterson has brought is the blue carbuncle of the Countess of Morcar, recently advertised in the newspapers. On hearing that the reward is one thousand pounds, the commissionaire collapses into a chair. Holmes explains how greatly the countess values it and begins retracing the history of its disappearance.
"That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are sentimental considerations in the background which would induce the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but recover the gem."「それが懸賞金だが、私の知るところでは、裏には情にからむ事情があって、伯爵夫人はあの宝石を取り戻せさえすれば、財産の半分を手放してもいいと思っているほどなのだ」
"It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I remarked.「たしか、なくなったのはホテル・コスモポリタンだったね」と私は言った。
"Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago.「そのとおり。12 月 22 日、ちょうど五日前のことだ。
John Horner, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's jewel-case.配管工のジョン・ホーナーが、夫人の宝石箱からそれを盗み出したとして訴えられた。
The evidence against him was so strong that the case has been referred to the Assizes.彼に不利な証拠があまりに強いので、事件は巡回裁判に回されている。
I have some account of the matter here, I believe."たしか、この件の記事がここにあったはずだ」
He rummaged amid his newspapers, glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph:彼は新聞の山をかき回し、日付に目を走らせていたが、やがて一枚を取り出してしわを伸ばし、二つに折って、次の一節を読み上げた。