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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Watson finds a contradiction in Holmes's description of a case as both simple and difficult. Holmes continues by explaining the connection between distinctive features and the difficulty of an investigation. The discussion then turns to the particular suspicions reported in the newspapers. Having not yet visited the scene, what will the detective accept as an established fact?

"But it is profoundly true.「だが、まさしく本当のことだ。
Singularity is almost invariably a clue.変わった点は、ほとんど必ず手掛かりになる。
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.犯罪が特徴に乏しく、ありふれたものであるほど、犯人の罪を立証するのは難しい。
In this case, however, they have established a very serious case against the son of the murdered man."もっとも、今回の事件では、殺された男の息子に対し、非常に重大な嫌疑を裏付ける証拠がそろっている」
"It is a murder, then?"「すると、殺人なのかい」
"Well, it is conjectured to be so.「まあ、そう推測されている。
I shall take nothing for granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into it.自分で調べる機会を得るまでは、何も当然のこととして受け入れはしない。
I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have been able to understand it, in a very few words.私が理解できた限りの事情を、ごく手短に説明しよう。