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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Wilson confirms that Spaulding still works for him. The household consists only of the assistant, a fourteen-year-old girl who cooks and cleans, and Wilson himself, a widower. The three lived quietly until the advertisement disturbed their routine. Eight weeks earlier, Spaulding entered with the newspaper and wished aloud that he had red hair.

"Yes, sir.「ええ、おります。
He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple cooking and keeps the place clean—that's all I have in the house, for I am a widower and never had any family.あの男と、簡単な料理と掃除をしてくれる十四の娘と、家にいるのはそれだけでして、なにしろ私は男やもめで、家族を持ったこともないんです。
We live very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads and pay our debts, if we do nothing more.三人でごく静かに暮らしておりまして、ほかに何ができるわけでもありませんが、雨露をしのいで借金を払うくらいはできております。
"The first thing that put us out was that advertisement.「そんな暮らしを最初にかき乱したのが、例の広告でした。
Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says:スポールディングのやつが、ちょうど八週間前の今日、まさにこの新聞を手にして店へ下りてきましてね、こう言うんです。
"'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.'「『ああウィルソンさん、自分が赤毛の男だったら、どんなにいいか』
"'Why that?' I asks.「『そりゃまた、どうして？』と私は聞きます。