第37章 幸运的套鞋 The Goloshes of Fortune 续 (第1/22页)

5. 职员的变形

thE cLERK’S tRANSFoRmAtIoN

我们当然没有忘记那个守夜人。过了一会儿，他想起了自己找到并送到医院的那双套鞋，于是他去把它们取了回来。

the watchman, whom we of course have not forgotten, thought, after a while, of the goloshes which he had found and taken to the hospital; so he went and fetched them.

但是中尉和街上的任何人都认不出这是他们的套鞋，所以他把它们交给了警察。

but neither the lieutenant nor any one in the street could recognize them as their own, so he gave them up to the police.

“它们看起来和我的套鞋一模一样。”一个职员说道，他检查着放在自己那双套鞋旁边的这双不知名的鞋子。“即使是鞋匠的眼睛也很难分辨出这两双鞋。”

“they look exactly like my own goloshes,” said one of the clerks, examining the unknown articles, as they stood by the side of his own. “It would require even more than the eye of a shoemaker to know one pair from the other.”

“职员先生。”一个拿着一些文件走进来的仆人说道。

“master clerk,” said a servant who entered with some papers.

职员转过身跟那个人说话；但跟那人说完后，他又转回去看那双套鞋，现在他比以往任何时候都更疑惑右边的那双还是左边的那双是他的。

the clerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him, he turned to look at the goloshes again, and now he was in greater doubt than ever as to whether the pair on the right or on the left belonged to him.

“那双湿的一定是我的。” 他想；但他想错了，恰恰相反。

“those that are wet must be mine,” thought he; but he thought wrong, it was just the reverse.

幸运女神的套鞋是那双湿的；而且，再说，警察局的一个职员为什么就不能有时犯错呢？

the goloshes of Fortune were the wet pair; and, besides, why should not a clerk in a police office be wrong sometimes?

于是他穿上那双套鞋，把文件塞进口袋，腋下夹着几份手