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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

The plain envelope carries a Gravesend postmark dated that day. Holmes examines its paper, ink, address, and seal, noting differences between the writing outside and the note within. He explains these several physical clues carefully to Mrs. St. Clair before judging what the message can establish about her husband's safety.

"The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried itself.「お名前の部分は真っ黒なインクで、自然に乾いています。
The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that blotting-paper has been used.残りは灰色がかっていて、吸い取り紙を使ったことが分かります。
If it had been written straight off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade.続けて全部書いてから吸い取ったなら、どこにも深い黒は残らなかったでしょう。
This man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not familiar with it.この人は名前を書き、それから一度間を置いて住所を書いた。それは住所をよく知らなかったということにほかなりません。
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.もちろん些細なことですが、些細なことほど大切なものはありません。
Let us now see the letter.さて、手紙を見ましょう。
Ha! there has been an enclosure here!"おや、ここには同封物がありましたね」
"Yes, there was a ring.「ええ、指輪が。
His signet-ring."主人の印章指輪です」
"And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?"「そして、これがご主人の筆跡なのは確かですか」
"One of his hands."「主人の筆跡の一つです」
"One?"「一つですって」
"His hand when he wrote hurriedly.「急いで書くときの字です。
It is very unlike his usual writing, and yet I know it well."普段の字とはずいぶん違いますが、私にはよく分かるのです」