Full text: Japanese translation and original English
The name obtained at the Alpha Inn is Breckinridge, a dealer in Covent Garden. Holmes and Watson hurry south through the frosty night, cross Holborn, and thread their way through a maze of narrow streets. Their destination is one of the stalls in the market as business is ending for the day.
We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market.私たちはホウボーンを横切り、エンデル街を下って、貧民街をジグザグに抜け、コヴェント・ガーデン市場に出た。
One of the largest stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was helping a boy to put up the shutters.いちばん大きな屋台の一つにブレッキンリッジの名が掲げられており、その店主——鋭い顔つきで頬ひげをきちんと整えた、馬好きらしい風体の男——が、少年に手を貸して雨戸を立てているところだった。
"Good-evening.「こんばんは。
It's a cold night," said Holmes.冷える晩ですね」とホームズは言った。
The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my companion.商人はうなずき、問いかけるような視線を私の連れにさっと投げた。
"Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the bare slabs of marble.「ガチョウは売り切れのようですね」と、むき出しの大理石の台を指さしながらホームズは続けた。
"Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning."「明日の朝なら五百羽でも回してやるよ」
"That's no good."「それでは困るのです」
"Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare."「なら、ガスの明かりがついてる屋台に少し残ってるぜ」
"Ah, but I was recommended to you."「いや、私はあなたの店を勧められて来たのですよ」