Английский детектив. Джон Бакен. Тридцать девять ступеней / John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps - страница 33

), and the side pocket of his jacket contained an old crocodile-skin cigar-case (а в боковом кармане пиджака был: «содержался» старый портсигар из потертой: «старой» крокодиловой кожи). There was no sign of the little black book in which I had seen him making notes (не было никаких признаков той маленькой черной книжечки, в которой, /как/ я видел, он делал записи). That had no doubt been taken by his murderer (она, вне всяких сомнений, была унесена его убийцей).

 My next thought was whether Scudder had any papers about him to give me a better clue to the business. I drew back the table-cloth and searched his pockets, for I had no longer any shrinking from the body. The face was wonderfully calm for a man who had been struck down in a moment. There was nothing in the breast-pocket, and only a few loose coins and a cigar-holder in the waistcoat. The trousers held a little penknife and some silver, and the side pocket of his jacket contained an old crocodile-skin cigar-case. There was no sign of the little black book in which I had seen him making notes. That had no doubt been taken by his murderer.

But as I looked up from my task I saw (но когда я поднял голову: «поднял глаза от своего задания», я увидел) that some drawers had been pulled out in the writing-table (что несколько ящиков письменного стола были выдвинуты). Scudder would never have left them in that state (Скаддер никогда бы не оставил их в таком положении; to leave), for he was the tidiest of mortals (потому что он был самым аккуратным из смертных; tidy – аккуратный, опрятный). Someone must have been searching for something (кто-то, должно быть, что-то искал) – perhaps for the pocket-book (возможно, /ту самую/ записную книжку).

I went round the flat and found that everything had been ransacked (я обошел всю квартиру и обнаружил, что все было обыскано) – the inside of books (страницы: «внутренности» книг), drawers (выдвижные ящики), cupboards (шкафы), boxes (коробки), even the pockets of the clothes in my wardrobe (даже карманы одежды в моем шкафу), and the sideboard in the dining-room (и сервант в столовой). There was no trace of the book (следов записной книжки нигде не было; trace – след, отпечаток /ноги, лапы и т. п./; следы, остатки /чего-л./, признаки). Most likely the enemy had found it (скорее всего, враг обнаружил ее), but they had not found it on Scudder’s body (но они нашли ее не на теле Скаддера).

I went round the flat and found that everything had been ransacked – the inside of books, drawers, cupboards, boxes, even the pockets of the clothes in my wardrobe, and the sideboard in the dining-room. There was no trace of the book. Most likely the enemy had found it, but they had not found it on Scudder’s body.

Then I got out an atlas and looked at a big map of the British Isles (после этого я вытащил атлас и стал смотреть на большую карту Британских островов; to get out – вынимать, вытаскивать). My notion was to get off to some wild district (моим намерением было удалиться в какой-нибудь малонаселенный район; notion – понятие, представление; намерение, склонность; wild – дикий, дикорастущий; девственный, дикий