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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Capítulo 12, Página 14
“I
am
so
delighted
that
you
have
come,”
she
said
earnestly.
“It
is
so
very
kind
of
you
both;
but
indeed
I
do
not
know
what
I
should
do.
Your
advice
will
be
altogether
invaluable
to
me.”
“Pray
tell
us
what
has
happened
to
you.”
“I
will
do
so,
and
I
must
be
quick,
for
I
have
promised
Mr.
Rucastle
to
be
back
before
three.
I
got
his
leave
to
come
into
town
this
morning,
though
he
little
knew
for
what
purpose.”
“Let
us
have
everything
in
its
due
order.”
Holmes
thrust
his
long
thin
legs
out
towards
the
fire
and
composed
himself
to
listen.
“In
the
first
place,
I
may
say
that
I
have
met,
on
the
whole,
with
no
actual
ill-treatment
from
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Rucastle.
It
is
only
fair
to
them
to
say
that.
But
I
cannot
understand
them,
and
I
am
not
easy
in
my
mind
about
them.”
“What
can
you
not
understand?”
“Their
reasons
for
their
conduct.
But
you
shall
have
it
all
just
as
it
occurred.
When
I
came
down,
Mr.
Rucastle
met
me
here
and
drove
me
in
his
dog-cart
to
the
Copper
Beeches.
It
is,
as
he
said,
beautifully
situated,
but
it
is
not
beautiful
in
itself,
for
it
is
a
large
square
block
of
a
house,
whitewashed,
but
all
stained
and
streaked
with
damp
and
bad
weather.
There
are
grounds
round
it,
woods
on
three
sides,
and
on
the
fourth
a
field
which
slopes
down
to
the
Southampton
high
road,
which
curves
past
about
a
hundred
yards
from
the
front
door.
This
ground
in
front
belongs
to
the
house,
but
the
woods
all
round
are
part
of
Lord
Southerton’s
preserves.
A
clump
of
copper
beeches
immediately
in
front
of
the
hall
door
has
given
its
name
to
the
place.”
“I
was
driven
over
by
my
employer,
who
was
as
amiable
as
ever,
and
was
introduced
by
him
that
evening
to
his
wife
and
the
child.
There
was
no
truth,
Mr.
Holmes,
in
the
conjecture
which
seemed
to
us
to
be
probable
in
your
rooms
at
Baker
Street.
Mrs.
Rucastle
is
not
mad.
I
found
her
to
be
a
silent,
pale-faced
woman,
much
younger
than
her
husband,
not
more
than
thirty,
I
should
think,
while
he
can
hardly
be
less
than
forty-five.
From
their
conversation
I
have
gathered
that
they
have
been
married
about
seven
years,
that
he
was
a
widower,
and
that
his
only
child
by
the
first
wife
was
the
daughter
who
has
gone
to
Philadelphia.
Mr.
Rucastle
told
me
in
private
that
the
reason
why
she
had
left
them
was
that
she
had
an
unreasoning
aversion
to
her
stepmother.
As
the
daughter
could
not
have
been
less
than
twenty,
I
can
quite
imagine
that
her
position
must
have
been
uncomfortable
with
her
father’s
young
wife.”
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