Spade sat down in the armchair beside the table and without any preliminary, without an introductory remark of any sort, began to tell the girl about a thing that had happened some years before in the Northwest.
Spade mahai ondoko besaulkian eseri zen, eta inolako sarrerarik gabe, inolako atariko oharrik gabe, hasi zen neskari esaten Ipar-mendebaldean urte batzuk lehenago gertatutako pasadizo bat.