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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

For eight weeks Wilson has copied the encyclopedia every day. His completed pages now fill a shelf, and steady work should soon carry him into the entries beginning with B. Paper costs are mounting, but the employment has proceeded smoothly. His account now reaches the morning of his visit to Holmes, when everything unexpectedly changes.

"Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very long.「こうして八週間が過ぎ、私は修道院長や弓術や甲冑や建築やアッティカについて書き写して、この調子でせっせと励めば、まもなくBの項に進めるだろうと思っていました。
It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.紙代もそこそこかかりましたが、書いたものでもう棚がひとつ埋まりそうなほどでした。
And then suddenly the whole business came to an end."ところが突然、何もかもが終わってしまったんです」
"To an end?"「終わったと？」
"Yes, sir.「ええ、そうなんです。
And no later than this morning.それもつい今朝のことです。
I went to my work as usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack.いつもどおり十時に仕事に行きますと、ドアは閉まって鍵がかかっていて、扉板の真ん中に小さな四角い厚紙が鋲で留めてありました。
Here it is, and you can read for yourself."これがそうです、どうぞご自分でお読みください」