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布鲁斯-帕廷顿计划-the bruce-partington plans-第4部分

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There was silence in the room。  It was broken by Mycroft Holmes。

〃Can you not make reparation?  It would ease your conscience; and possibly your punishment。〃

〃What reparation can I make?〃

〃Where is Oberstein with the papers?〃

〃I do not know。〃

〃Did he give you no address?〃

〃He said that letters to the Hotel du Louvre; Paris; would eventually reach him。〃

〃Then reparation is still within your power;〃 said Sherlock Holmes。

〃I will do anything I can。  I owe this fellow no particular good…will。  He has been my ruin and my downfall。〃

〃Here are paper and pen。  Sit at this desk and write to my dictation。  Direct the envelope to the address given。  That is right。  Now the letter:

〃Dear Sir:

〃With regard to our transaction; you will no doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing。  
I have a tracing which will make it plete。  
This has involved me in extra trouble; however; and I must ask you for a further advance of five hundred pounds。 
 I will not trust it to the post; nor will I take anything but gold or notes。  
I would e to you abroad; but it would excite remark if I left the country at present。
Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking…room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday。  Remember that only English notes; or gold; will be taken。

〃That will do very well。  I shall be very much surprised if it does not fetch our man。〃

And it did!  It is a matter of history……that secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles……that Oberstein; eager to plete the coup of his lifetime; came to the lure and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in a British prison。  
In his trunk were found the invaluable Bruce…Partington plans; which he had put up for auction in all the naval centres of Europe。

Colonel Walter died in prison towards the end of the second year of his sentence。  
As to Holmes; he returned refreshed to his monograph upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus; which has since been printed for private circulation; and is said by experts to be the last word upon the subject。  

Some weeks afterwards I learned incidentally that my friend spent a day at Windsor;whence be returned with a remarkably fine emerald tie…pin。  
When I asked him if he had bought it; he answered that it was a present from a certain gracious lady in whose interests he had once been fortunate enough to carry out a small mission。  
He said no more; but I fancy that I could guess at that lady's august name; and I have little doubt that the emerald pin will forever recall to my friend's memory the adventure of the Bruce…Partington plans。





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