福爾摩斯探案經典:《恐怖谷》第5章Part10
"I did; but his face would become very grave and he would shake his head. 'It is bad enough that one of us should have been in its shadow,' he said. 'Please God it shall never fall upon you!' It was some real valley in which he had lived and in which something terrible had occurred to him, of that I am certain; but I can tell you no more."
"And he never mentioned any names?"
"Yes, he was delirious with fever once when he had his hunting accident three years ago. Then I remember that there was a name that came continually to his lips. He spoke it with anger and a sort of horror. McGinty was the name--Bodymaster McGinty. I asked him when he recovered who Bodymaster McGinty was, and whose body he was master of. 'Never of mine, thank God!' he answered with a laugh, and that was all I could get from him. But there is a connection between Bodymaster McGinty and the Valley of Fear."
"There is one other point," said Inspector MacDonald. "You met Mr. Douglas in a boarding house in London, did you not, and became engaged to him there? Was there any romance, anything secret or mysterious, about the wedding?"
"There was romance. There is always romance. There was nothing mysterious."
"He had no rival?"
"No, I was quite free."
"You have heard, no doubt, that his wedding ring has been taken. Does that suggest anything to you? Suppose that some enemy of his old life had tracked him down and committed this crime, what possible reason could he have for taking his wedding ring?"
For an instant I could have sworn that the faintest shadow of a smile flickered over the woman's lips.
“我問過他，可是他一聽就臉色陰沉，連連搖頭說：‘我們兩個人中有一個處於它的魔影籠罩之下，這就夠糟糕的了。''但願上帝保佑，這不會落到你的頭上。'這一定是有某一個真正的山谷，他曾在那裏住過，而且在那裏曾有一些可怕的事情在他身上發生——這一點，我敢肯定——其它我就再沒有什麼東西可以告訴你們的了。”
“他從沒有提過什麼人的名字嗎？”
“提到過的。三年前，他打獵時出了點意外，在發燒中，曾經說過胡話。我記得他不斷說起一個名字，他說的時候，很是憤怒，而且有些恐怖。這人的名字是麥金蒂——身主麥金蒂。後來他病好了，我問他，身主麥金蒂是誰，他主管誰的身體？他哈哈一笑回答說，‘謝天謝地，他可不管我的身體。'我從他那裏得到的全部情況也就是這些了。不過，身主麥金蒂和'恐怖谷'之間一定是有關係的。”
“還有一點，"警官麥克唐納說道，“你是在倫敦一家公寓裏和道格拉斯先生相識的，並且在那兒和他訂的婚，是嗎？關於你們的婚事，有什麼戀愛過程，有什麼祕密的或是神祕的事嗎？”
“戀愛過程是有的，總是要有戀愛過程的。可是沒有什麼神祕的。”
“他沒有情敵嗎？”
“沒有，那時我根本還沒有男朋友。”
“你當然聽說過，他的結婚戒指被人拿走了。這件事和你有什麼關係嗎？假定是他過去生活裏的仇人追蹤到這裏並下了毒手，那麼，把他的結婚戒指拿走的原因可能是什麼呢？”
一瞬間，我敢說道格拉斯夫人脣邊掠過一絲微笑。
