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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

For some time after John’s father begins living at Horsham, daily life passes peacefully. John next recalls an incident around the New Year of 1885, when his father suddenly cries out at the breakfast table. An envelope is in his hand, and the memory of what happened to his uncle returns as John describes that morning.

"Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the January of '85.「さて、父がホーシャムで暮らし始めたのは八四年の初めで、八五年一月までは、私たちの暮らしは申し分なく順調でした。
On the fourth day after the new year I heard my father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the breakfast-table.新年が明けて四日目、一緒に朝食の席に着いていると、父が驚きの鋭い声を上げるのを聞きました。
There he was, sitting with a newly opened envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the outstretched palm of the other one.父は片手に開けたばかりの封筒を持ち、もう片方の広げた手のひらには、乾いたオレンジの種が五つ載っていました。
He had always laughed at what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon himself.おじのことを話すと、父はいつも私の荒唐無稽な作り話だと笑っていたのに、同じことが自分の身に降りかかった今は、とてもおびえ、当惑していました。
"'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered.「『おい、ジョン、いったいこれはどういう意味だ』と、父はどもりました。
"My heart had turned to lead.「私の心臓は鉛になったようでした。
'It is K. K. K.,' said I.『Ｋ・Ｋ・Ｋだよ』と私は言いました。
"He looked inside the envelope.「父は封筒の中を見ました。
'So it is,' he cried.『そのとおりだ』と叫びました。
'Here are the very letters.『確かにその文字がある。
But what is this written above them?'だが、その上に書いてあるのは何だ』
"'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his shoulder.「『書類を日時計の上に置け』と、私は父の肩越しにのぞいて読みました。