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最后的故事《雷神桥》以一段著名的段落开头,在这段文字中,华生揭示了在考克斯银行查令十字分行的金库中存在“一个被旅行磨损的、破旧的锡制公文箱,盖子上画着我的名字,约翰·h·华生,医学博士,已故印度军队”(Case-Book, 23)。这是一家真正的银行,成立于1758年,专门作为一家军队机构,负责军队后勤和官兵的支付:对于军事客户,它不仅要照顾工资,还要照顾税收、保险和账单,它在英属印度和不列颠群岛都有分支机构。因此,对于一名前印度军医来说,开设一个账户是一个合乎逻辑的选择。在第一次世界大战期间,它在查令十字街16-18号的分行是世界上最繁忙的银行之一,为从前线回来的人开放24小时它的战时扩张无法持续,1923年被劳合社银行(Lloyd’s Bank)接管,就在《海滨报》(the Strand)发表《雷神之桥》(Thor Bridge)的第二年,尽管劳合社后来出售了它在印度的业务,最终成为了考克斯与国王旅行社(Cox and Kings travel),并蓬勃发展至今。
The late story ‘Thor Bridge’ opens with a celebrated passage in which Watson reveals the existence of ‘a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, MD, Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid’ (Case-Book, 23) in the vaults of the Charing Cross branch of Cox and Co. bank. This was a real bank, founded in 1758 and which specialised as an army agency, responsible for army logistics and payments to officers and men: for its military customers it would have taken care not only of salaries but also of tax, insurance and bills, and it had branches across British India as well as the British Isles. For a former Indian Army doctor, therefore, it would have been a logical choice for placing an account, and its branch at 16–18 Charing Cross was, during the First World War, one of the busiest banks in the world, open all hours for men returning from the front.1 Its wartime expansion could not be sustained and it was taken over by Lloyd’s Bank in 1923, the year after ‘Thor Bridge’ was published in the Strand, although Lloyd’s later sold its Indian operations which eventually became Cox and Kings travel agent, and which flourishes to this day.