解説　場面 200「最初の経歴から」

"My inquiries show beyond all question that the family portrait did not lie, and that this fellow was indeed a Baskerville. He was a son of that Rodger Baskerville, the younger brother of Sir Charles, who fled with a sinister reputation to South America, where he was said to have died unmarried. He did, as a matter of fact, marry, and had one child, this fellow, whose real name is the same as his father's. He married Beryl Garcia, one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire. His reason for attempting this special line of business was that he had struck up an acquaintance with a consumptive tutor upon the voyage home, and that he had used this man's ability to make the undertaking a success. Fraser, the tutor, died however, and the school which had begun well sank from disrepute into infamy. The Vandeleurs found it convenient to change their name to Stapleton, and he brought the remains of his fortune, his schemes for the future, and his taste for entomology to the south of England. I learned at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.

「私の調査から、一族の肖像画が偽りを示しておらず、あの男が確かにバスカヴィル家の人間だったことは疑いない。彼は、サー・チャールズの弟で、いかがわしい評判を残して南米へ逃げ、独身のまま死んだといわれていたロジャー・バスカヴィルの息子だった。実際には彼は結婚し、子供を一人もうけていた。それがあの男で、本名は父親と同じだ。彼はコスタリカ随一の美女の一人、ベリル・ガルシアと結婚し、公金をかなり横領した後、名をヴァンデラーに変えてイングランドへ逃げ、ヨークシャー東部に学校を開いた。彼がこの特別な事業に手を出したのは、帰国の航海で肺病を患う教師と知り合い、その男の能力を利用して事業を成功させたからだ。しかし教師のフレイザーが死ぬと、好調に始まった学校は評判を落とし、ついには悪名に沈んだ。ヴァンデラー夫妻はステイプルトンへ改名するのが都合よいと考え、彼は残った財産と将来の企み、昆虫学への興味を携えてイングランド南部へ移った。私は大英博物館で、彼がその分野で認められた権威であり、ヨークシャー時代に彼が最初に記載したある蛾には、ヴァンデラーの名が永久に付けられていることを知った。