11.4 The last Deaths

4.The Last Deaths
4．最后的死亡
But they did. The next morning we read in the newspaper that John Openshaw was dead. A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station. The police said it was an accident, but Holmes was very angry about it.


但他们还是那么做了。第二天早上我们从报纸上得知约翰·奥彭肖死了。一个警察在滑铁卢车站附近的河里发现了他。警方说那是事故，但是福尔摩斯对此非常气愤。


He came to me for help and those men murdered him! I'm going to find them, if it's the last thing I do!' he said to me, and he hurried out of the house.


“他来找我求助，那些人竟然谋杀了他！我要找出他们，哪怕这是我做的最后一件事！”他对我说，然后就匆匆出门了。


In the evening, when he came back to Baker Street, he was tired, but pleased. 'Watson!' he said, 'I know the names of Openshaw's enemies! And now I'm going to send them a surprise! This will frighten them!' He took five pips from an orange and put them in an envelope. On it he wrote 'S. H. for J. C. '


晚上，他回到贝克街，看上去很疲惫，但是很高兴。“华生！”他说，“我知道奥彭肖的敌人的名字了！现在我要吓他们一跳！这会震住他们的！”他从一个桔子里取出五个核，把它们放进一个信封里。他在上面写道：“S. H. 给J. C. ”。


I'm sending the pips, not from the K. K. K, but from me, Sherlock Holmes, to Captain James Calhoun. His ship is called the Star. He and his men are sailing back to Georgia, USA, now.'


“寄桔核给詹姆斯·卡尔霍恩船长的不是三K党，而是我，夏洛克·福尔摩斯。他的船叫‘繁星号’。他和他的手下现在正返航回美国佐治亚州。”


How did you find him, Holmes?' I asked.


“你是怎么找到他的，福尔摩斯？”我问。


Ship's papers,' he said. 'I've looked at hundreds of them today. Only one ship, the Star, was in the three ports at the right times, and this morning the Star left London to sail back to Georgia. I found out that the captain and two of his men, all Americans, weren't on the ship last night, so I'm sure they killed poor John Openshaw. When they arrive in America, they'll get the pips and then the police will catch them!'


“轮船的文件，”他说，“我今天看了几百份。只有一艘船，‘繁星号’，在正确的时间停留在那三个港口，今天上午，‘繁星号’离开伦敦返回佐治亚州。我发现三个美国人，船长和他的两个手下昨晚不在船上，所以我敢肯定是他们杀死了可怜的约翰·奥彭肖。到达美国的时候，他们会收到桔核，警察也会抓住他们的！”


Sherlock Holmes is a very clever detective, but he can do nothing about the weather. The winter storms at sea that year were worse than ever, and so the Star never arrived in Georgia, and nobody saw the captain or his men again. The murderers of John Openshaw did not get the pips, but, in the end, death came to them.


夏洛克·福尔摩斯是个非常聪明的侦探，但是他对天气无能为力。那年冬天，海上的风暴比以往任何时候都厉害，而“繁星号”没能到达佐治亚，也没有人再看到过船长和他的手下。杀害约翰·奥彭肖的凶手没有收到桔核，但是最后也没有逃脱死亡的惩罚。