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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

The account moves to a day when the visitor went into London. He recalls meeting someone in Regent Street and the exchange that followed. How did a conversation begun at a street corner develop? Before Holmes and Watson, he retells the words spoken there in their original order, continuing his explanation of the events that followed.

"I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his foot.「投資の用事でロンドンへ出たとき、リージェント街であの男に会いました。ろくな上着も靴も身に着けていませんでした。
"'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be as good as a family to you.「『やあ、ジャック』と、あの男は私の腕に触れて言うのです。『おれたちは、あんたの家族も同然になってやろう。
There's two of us, me and my son, and you can have the keeping of us.おれと息子の二人だから、養ってもらえるな。
If you don't—it's a fine, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman within hail.'嫌だと言うなら……イングランドは、結構な、法を守る国だからな。呼べば届く所には、いつでも警官がいるんだぜ』
"Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land ever since.「それで、あの二人は西部へやってきました。振り払うすべはなく、それ以来ずっと、私のいちばんよい土地に、借地料も払わず住んでいるのです。
There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my elbow.休息も、平穏も、忘れる時もありませんでした。どこを向いても、あのずるくにやついた顔が、すぐそばにありました。
It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more afraid of her knowing my past than of the police.アリスが成長するにつれ、事態はひどくなりました。私が警察よりも、娘に過去を知られることを恐れていると、あの男はすぐに気づいたからです。
Whatever he wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing which I could not give.欲しいものは何でも手に入れねば気が済まず、私は土地も金も家も、何一つ逆らわずに渡しました。そうして、とうとう、渡せないものを求めてきたのです。
He asked for Alice.アリスを求めてきたのです。