福尔摩斯探案经典:《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.
“我问过他，可是他一听就脸色阴沉，连连摇头说：‘我们两个人中有一个处于它的魔影笼罩之下，这就够糟糕的了。''但愿上帝保佑，这不会落到你的头上。'这一定是有某一个真正的山谷，他曾在那里住过，而且在那里曾有一些可怕的事情在他身上发生——这一点，我敢肯定——其它我就再没有什么东西可以告诉你们的了。”
“他从没有提过什么人的名字吗？”
“提到过的。三年前，他打猎时出了点意外，在发烧中，曾经说过胡话。我记得他不断说起一个名字，他说的时候，很是愤怒，而且有些恐怖。这人的名字是麦金蒂——身主麦金蒂。后来他病好了，我问他，身主麦金蒂是谁，他主管谁的身体？他哈哈一笑回答说，‘谢天谢地，他可不管我的身体。'我从他那里得到的全部情况也就是这些了。不过，身主麦金蒂和'恐怖谷'之间一定是有关系的。”
“还有一点，"警官麦克唐纳说道，“你是在伦敦一家公寓里和道格拉斯先生相识的，并且在那儿和他订的婚，是吗？关于你们的婚事，有什么恋爱过程，有什么秘密的或是神秘的事吗？”
“恋爱过程是有的，总是要有恋爱过程的。可是没有什么神秘的。”
“他没有情敌吗？”
“没有，那时我根本还没有男朋友。”
“你当然听说过，他的结婚戒指被人拿走了。这件事和你有什么关系吗？假定是他过去生活里的仇人追踪到这里并下了毒手，那么，把他的结婚戒指拿走的原因可能是什么呢？”
一瞬间，我敢说道格拉斯夫人唇边掠过一丝微笑。
