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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
Capítulo 10, Página 3
“‘MY
DEAR
MR.
SHERLOCK
HOLMES,—Lord
Backwater
tells
me
that
I
may
place
implicit
reliance
upon
your
judgment
and
discretion.
I
have
determined,
therefore,
to
call
upon
you
and
to
consult
you
in
reference
to
the
very
painful
event
which
has
occurred
in
connection
with
my
wedding.
Mr.
Lestrade,
of
Scotland
Yard,
is
acting
already
in
the
matter,
but
he
assures
me
that
he
sees
no
objection
to
your
co-operation,
and
that
he
even
thinks
that
it
might
be
of
some
assistance.
I
will
call
at
four
o’clock
in
the
afternoon,
and,
should
you
have
any
other
engagement
at
that
time,
I
hope
that
you
will
postpone
it,
as
this
matter
is
of
paramount
importance.
Yours
faithfully,”
“‘ROBERT
ST.
SIMON.’”
“It
is
dated
from
Grosvenor
Mansions,
written
with
a
quill
pen,
and
the
noble
lord
has
had
the
misfortune
to
get
a
smear
of
ink
upon
the
outer
side
of
his
right
little
finger,”
remarked
Holmes
as
he
folded
up
the
epistle.
“He
says
four
o’clock.
It
is
three
now.
He
will
be
here
in
an
hour.”
“Then
I
have
just
time,
with
your
assistance,
to
get
clear
upon
the
subject.
Turn
over
those
papers
and
arrange
the
extracts
in
their
order
of
time,
while
I
take
a
glance
as
to
who
our
client
is.”
He
picked
a
red-covered
volume
from
a
line
of
books
of
reference
beside
the
mantelpiece.
“Here
he
is,”
said
he,
sitting
down
and
flattening
it
out
upon
his
knee.
“‘Lord
Robert
Walsingham
de
Vere
St.
Simon,
second
son
of
the
Duke
of
Balmoral.’
Hum!
‘Arms:
Azure,
three
caltrops
in
chief
over
a
fess
sable.
Born
in
1846.’
He’s
forty-one
years
of
age,
which
is
mature
for
marriage.
Was
Under-Secretary
for
the
colonies
in
a
late
administration.
The
Duke,
his
father,
was
at
one
time
Secretary
for
Foreign
Affairs.
They
inherit
Plantagenet
blood
by
direct
descent,
and
Tudor
on
the
distaff
side.
Ha!
Well,
there
is
nothing
very
instructive
in
all
this.
I
think
that
I
must
turn
to
you
Watson,
for
something
more
solid.”
“I
have
very
little
difficulty
in
finding
what
I
want,”
said
I,
“for
the
facts
are
quite
recent,
and
the
matter
struck
me
as
remarkable.
I
feared
to
refer
them
to
you,
however,
as
I
knew
that
you
had
an
inquiry
on
hand
and
that
you
disliked
the
intrusion
of
other
matters.”
“Oh,
you
mean
the
little
problem
of
the
Grosvenor
Square
furniture
van.
That
is
quite
cleared
up
now—though,
indeed,
it
was
obvious
from
the
first.
Pray
give
me
the
results
of
your
newspaper
selections.”
“Here
is
the
first
notice
which
I
can
find.
It
is
in
the
personal
column
of
the
Morning
Post,
and
dates,
as
you
see,
some
weeks
back:
‘A
marriage
has
been
arranged,’
it
says,
‘and
will,
if
rumour
is
correct,
very
shortly
take
place,
between
Lord
Robert
St.
Simon,
second
son
of
the
Duke
of
Balmoral,
and
Miss
Hatty
Doran,
the
only
daughter
of
Aloysius
Doran.
Esq.,
of
San
Francisco,
Cal.,
U.
S.
A.’
That
is
all.”
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