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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

The account that began in the sitting room continues. Holmes listens without interrupting, and Watson follows the visitor's words as well. The events being described reach further than either listener had expected. Following their course through time, the visitor's explanation gradually draws closer to the present circumstances from which the conversation began in the sitting room.

"One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and we lay in wait for it and attacked it.「ある日、バララットからメルボルンへ金の護送隊が下ってきたので、私たちは待ち伏せて襲いました。
There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley.相手の騎兵も六人、こちらも六人で、際どい勝負でしたが、最初の一斉射撃で四人を馬から撃ち落としました。
Three of our boys were killed, however, before we got the swag.しかし、獲物を手にするまでに、こちらの仲間も三人死にました。
I put my pistol to the head of the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy.私は荷馬車の御者の頭に拳銃を突き付けましたが、それが、ほかならぬこのマッカーシーでした。
I wish to the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every feature.あのとき撃っておけばと、神にかけて思います。しかし私は命を助けました。その意地の悪い小さな目が、私の顔立ちを一つ残らず覚えようとするかのように、じっとこちらを見ていたのにです。
We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made our way over to England without being suspected.私たちは金を持って逃げ、裕福になり、疑われることなくイングランドへ渡りました。
There I parted from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and respectable life.そこで昔の仲間と別れ、静かで堅実な暮らしに落ち着こうと決心したのです。
I bought this estate, which chanced to be in the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, to make up for the way in which I had earned it.たまたま売りに出ていたこの土地を買い、その金を得たやり方の埋め合わせに、いくらか善いことをしようと努めました。
I married, too, and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice.結婚もしました。妻は若くして死にましたが、大切な娘のアリスを残してくれました。
Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down the right path as nothing else had ever done.まだ赤ん坊だった頃から、その小さな手は、それまでどんなものにもできなかったように、私を正しい道へ導いてくれる気がしたものです。
In a word, I turned over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past.要するに、私は心を入れ替え、過去の埋め合わせをしようと最善を尽くしました。
All was going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me.すべてがうまくいっていたところへ、マッカーシーが私に取り付いたのです。