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To Covent Garden
The landlord explains that he did not raise the club's geese himself, but bought two dozen from a dealer in Covent Garden. Holmes tries to learn the dealer's name before they leave. The chain of clues that began in Baker Street is extending farther across London, one supplier at a time.
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The landlord explains that he did not raise the club's geese himself, but bought two dozen from a dealer in Covent Garden. Holmes tries to learn the dealer's name before they leave. The chain of clues that began in Baker Street is extending farther across London, one supplier at a time.
"Indeed?「そうですか。
I know some of them.何人かは知っていますよ。
Which was it?"どの人です？」
"Breckinridge is his name."「ブレッキンリッジって名前です」
"Ah!「ああ！
I don't know him.その人は知りませんね。
Well, here's your good health landlord, and prosperity to your house.では、ご主人の健康と、この店の繁盛を祈って乾杯。
Good-night."おやすみなさい」
"Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat as we came out into the frosty air.「さて、次はブレッキンリッジ氏だ」と、凍てつく夜気の中へ出ると、彼はコートのボタンを留めながら続けた。
"Remember, Watson that though we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal servitude unless we can establish his innocence.「いいかね、ワトソン、この鎖の一方の端にはガチョウなどというありふれたものがあるが、もう一方の端には、私たちが無実を証明できなければ間違いなく七年の懲役を受ける男がいるのだ。
It is possible that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, and which a singular chance has placed in our hands.私たちの調べは、彼の有罪を裏づけるだけに終わるかもしれない。だが、いずれにせよ、私たちは警察が見落とした捜査の筋を、奇妙な偶然のおかげで手にしているのだ。
Let us follow it out to the bitter end.とことん最後まで追ってみよう。
Faces to the south, then, and quick march!"では、南へ向かって、早足、進め！」