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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

The little man's story continues in the quiet room. Several days earlier, he was at his sister's house in Brixton Road. Standing alone in the back garden with a pipe, he considered what he should do next. As he thought through his position, the face of an old acquaintance suddenly came into his mind.

"I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and has just been serving his time in Pentonville.「以前、モーズリーという友人がいました。道を踏み外して、ペントンヴィルで刑期を務めて出てきたばかりの男です。
One day he had met me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they could get rid of what they stole.ある日その男に会ったとき、泥棒のやり口や、盗んだ物をどうやって処分するかという話になりました。
I knew that he would be true to me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my confidence.私は彼の弱みを一つ二つ知っていましたから、裏切られる心配はありませんでした。そこで、彼の住むキルバーンまでまっすぐ行って、秘密を打ち明けようと心を決めたのです。
He would show me how to turn the stone into money.彼なら、石を金に換える方法を教えてくれるはずでした。
But how to get to him in safety?けれども、どうすれば無事に彼のところまでたどり着けるでしょう？
I thought of the agonies I had gone through in coming from the hotel.ホテルからここへ来るまでに味わった、生きた心地もしない苦しみが思い出されました。
I might at any moment be seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat pocket.いつ捕まって身体検査をされるか分かりません。そうなれば、チョッキのポケットから石が出てきてしまいます。
I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the best detective that ever lived.そのとき私は塀にもたれて、足もとをよちよち歩き回るガチョウを眺めていましたが、ふと、この世でいちばんの名探偵でも出し抜ける方法が頭に浮かんだのです。