解説　場面 115「言っておきたいこと」

"Well, I am glad from my heart that you are here, for indeed the responsibility and the mystery were both becoming too much for my nerves. But how in the name of wonder did you come here, and what have you been doing? I thought that you were in Baker Street working out that case of blackmailing."

「とにかく、君がここにいてくれて心の底からうれしいよ。実際、責任も謎も、私の神経には重すぎるものになりかけていた。しかし一体どうやってここへ来て、今まで何をしていたんだ。私は君がベイカー・ストリートで、あの脅迫事件を解いていると思っていた」

"That was what I wished you to think."

「そう思ってもらいたかったのだ」

"Then you use me, and yet do not trust me!" I cried with some bitterness. "I think that I have deserved better at your hands, Holmes."

「じゃあ、君は私を利用しながら、信用はしなかったのか」と、私は少しの苦々しさを込めて叫んだ。「ホームズ、私にはもっと誠実に扱ってもらう資格があったと思う」

"My dear fellow, you have been invaluable to me in this as in many other cases, and I beg that you will forgive me if I have seemed to play a trick upon you. In truth, it was partly for your own sake that I did it, and it was my appreciation of the danger which you ran which led me to come down and examine the matter for myself. Had I been with Sir Henry and you it is confident that my point of view would have been the same as yours, and my presence would have warned our very formidable opponents to be on their guard. As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment."

「親愛なる友よ、この事件でも、それ以外の多くの事件でも、君は私にとってかけがえのない存在だ。もし私が君に小細工をしたように見えたなら、どうか許してほしい。実のところ、これをしたのは半ば君のためでもある。君が冒している危険を十分に認識したからこそ、私はここへ来て、自分で事件を調べたのだ。ヘンリー卿と君のそばにいたなら、私も間違いなく君と同じ視点で見ていただろう。そして私の存在は、非常に手ごわい相手に警戒を促していたはずだ。現実には、館に暮らしていてはとてもできないほど自由に動き回ることができた。そして今なおこの件の未知の要素として、決定的な瞬間に全力を投じられる」