福尔摩斯探案全集哪个版本最好 福尔摩斯探案经典:《恐怖谷》第1章Part3

福尔摩斯探案经典:《恐怖谷》第1章Part3  

"Well
well
it is surely not quite so bad as that. The cipher message begins with a large 534
does it not? We may take it as a working hypothesis that 534 is the particular page to which the cipher refers. So our book has already bee a LARGE book
which is surely something gained. What other indications have we as to the nature of this large book? The next sign is C2. What do you make of that
Watson?"
"Chapter the second
no doubt."
"Hardly that
Watson. You will
I am sure
agree with me that if the page be given
the number of the chapter is immaterial. Also that if page 534 finds us only in the second chapter
the length of the first one must have been really intolerable."
"Column!" I cried.
"Brilliant
Watson. You are scintillating this Morning. If it is not column
then I am very much deceived. So now
you see
we begin to visualize a large book printed in double columns which are each of a considerable length
since one of the words is numbered in the document as the o hundred and niy-third. Have we reached the limits of what reason can supply?"
"I fear that we have."
"Surely you do yourself an injustice. One more coruscation
my dear Watson--yet another brain-wave! Had the volume been an unusual one
he would have sent it to me. Instead of that
he had intended
before his plans were nipped
to send me the clue in this envelope. He says so in his note. This would seem to indicate that the book is one which he thought I would have no difficulty in finding for myself. He had it--and he imagined that I would have it
too. In short
Watson
it is a very mon book."
"What you say certainly sounds plausible."
"So we have contracted our field of search to a large book
printed in double columns and in mon use."
"The Bible!" I cried triumphantly.
"Good
Watson
good! But not
if I may say so
quite good enough! Even if I accepted the pliment for myself I could hardly name any volume which would be less likely to lie at the elbow of one of Moriarty's associates. Besides
the editions of Holy Writ are so numerous that he could hardly suppose that o copies would have the same pagination. This is clearly a book which is standardized. He knows for certain that his page 534 will exactly agree with my page 534."
"But very few books would correspond with that."
"Exactly. Therein lies our salvation. Our search is narrowed down to standardized books which anyone may be supposed to possess."
"Bradshaw!"