"나로서는 잘 정돈해 둔 걸세. 어디에 뭐가 있는지 잘 알고 있단 말일세.""그렇다고 해도 앉을 자리도 없어서야 어디 방이라고 할 수 있겠나? 두 시간 정도면 충분할 걸세. 침실에 있는 것부터 치워보게."홈즈는 내키지 않았지만 내 요구가 당연하다고 생각한 모양이었다.
"치우다 말고 뭐하는 건가?""이것 좀 보겠나? 이게 모두 사건 기록들이라네."뚜껑을 열어보니 안에는 빨간 끈으로 따로따로 묶은 서류가 3분의 2쯤 들어 있었다.
if all the world was convinced that I was dead theywould take liberties, these men, they would soon lay themselvesopen, and sooner or later I could destroy them. Then it would betime for me to announce that I was still in the land of the living.
One or other would certainly get me. On theother hand, if all the world was convinced that I was dead theywould take liberties, these men, they would soon lay themselvesopen, and sooner or later I could destroy them.