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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Holmes closes the lantern’s cover and the cellar becomes completely dark. Watson cocks his revolver, places it on a box, and crouches behind the wood. In the cold, damp blackness, every nerve grows tense. Holmes whispers that the criminals have only one escape route and checks the arrangements Jones has made above ground.

I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched.私は撃鉄を起こした拳銃を、身をかがめて隠れた木箱の上に置いた。
Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness—such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced.ホームズがランタンの前の遮光板をさっと閉めると、私たちは真っ暗闇の中に取り残された――これまで味わったことのない、まったくの暗闇だった。
The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to flash out at a moment's notice.熱くなった金属のにおいが残っていて、明かりがまだそこにあり、いつでもぱっと照らし出せることを私たちに知らせていた。
To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the vault.期待に神経が張りつめていた私には、急に訪れた闇にも、地下室の冷たくじめじめした空気にも、何か気を滅入らせ、押しつぶすようなものが感じられた。
"They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes.「連中の逃げ道はひとつしかない」とホームズがささやいた。
"That is back through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square.「家の中を抜けて、サックス・コバーグ・スクエアへ戻る道だ。
I hope that you have done what I asked you, Jones?"頼んでおいたことは済ませてくれただろうね、ジョーンズ？」
"I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door."「表の戸口には、警部を一人と巡査を二人待たせてありますな」