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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Kate believes Isa is in a riverside opium den. His longer absence has made her increasingly anxious, yet she cannot safely go into the place alone. After hearing her troubling account, Watson considers what he can do at once as both Isa's doctor and a trusted acquaintance of the family.

There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of it.事情はそういうことで、取るべき道はもちろん一つしかなかった。
Might I not escort her to this place?私が彼女をそこへ連れていけばよいのではないか。
And then, as a second thought, why should she come at all?いや、考えてみれば、そもそも彼女が行く必要などあるだろうか。
I was Isa Whitney's medical adviser, and as such I had influence over him.私はアイザ・ホイットニーの主治医なのだから、彼も私の言うことなら聞くだろう。
I could manage it better if I were alone.一人で行く方がうまく運べるはずだった。
I promised her on my word that I would send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the address which she had given me.教えられた住所に本当にいるのなら、二時間以内に馬車で家へ送り届けると、私は固く約束した。
And so in ten minutes I had left my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to be.こうして十分後には、私は肘掛け椅子と明るい居間を後にし、ハンサム馬車で東へ急いでいた。そのときも奇妙な使いだと思ったが、どれほど奇妙なものになるかは、その後にならなければ分からなかった。