Notes　Scene 6: The Path to the Pool

"On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came back alive.

「六月三日、つまり先週の月曜日、マッカーシーは午後三時ごろハザリーの自宅を出て、ボスコム池へ下っていった。この小さな湖は、ボスコム谷を流れ下る小川が広がってできたものだ。午前中は男の使用人とロスへ出かけており、三時に重要な約束があるから急がなければならないと、その男に話していた。その約束から、彼は生きて帰らなかった。

"From Hatherley Farmhouse to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred.

「ハザリー農場の家からボスコム池までは四分の一マイルあり、その道を通る彼を二人の人が見ている。一人は名の記されていない老女で、もう一人はターナーに雇われている猟場番、ウィリアム・クラウダーだ。二人とも、マッカーシーは一人で歩いていたと証言している。猟場番はさらに、マッカーシーが通るのを見てから数分もしないうちに、息子のジェームズ・マッカーシーが銃を小脇に抱えて同じ方へ行くのを見たと述べている。彼の記憶に間違いがなければ、そのとき父親はまだ実際に視界に入っており、息子がその後を追っていた。その晩、惨劇が起きたと聞くまでは、それ以上は何も考えなかったという。