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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

At dawn, after the arrests, Holmes and Watson relax with drinks in Baker Street. Watson still wants to understand what the Red-Headed League really was and why anyone would pay four pounds a week for copying an encyclopedia. Holmes begins retracing the reasoning that allowed him to see the purpose behind the ridiculous employment.

"You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day.「いいかね、ワトソン」と、明け方、ベイカー街でウイスキーソーダのグラスを前にしてホームズは説明した。「組合の広告だの百科事典の書き写しだのという、このいささか奇抜な騒ぎのねらいが、あまり利口でないあの質屋を毎日何時間か店から遠ざけておくこと以外にありえないのは、最初からまったく明らかだった。
It was a curious way of managing it, but, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better.妙なやり方ではあるが、正直なところ、これ以上うまい手はちょっと思いつかないね。
The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair.この方法は、きっと相棒の髪の色を見て、クレイの抜け目ない頭に浮かんだのだろう。
The £ 4 a week was a lure which must draw him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands?週四ポンドはあの男を必ず食いつかせる餌だったし、何千ポンドという大勝負をしている連中にとって、そんな額が何だというのだ？
They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the week.連中は広告を出し、悪党の一人が仮の事務所を構え、もう一人の悪党が主人をそそのかして応募させ、二人がかりで、毎朝欠かさずあの男を確実に留守にさせたというわけだ。
From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation."あの助手が半分の給料で雇われに来たと聞いたときから、その職にありつきたい何か強い動機があるのは、私には明らかだった」
"But how could you guess what the motive was?"「だが、その動機が何なのか、どうして見当がついたんだい？」