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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Capítulo 4, Página 15
“I
cannot
admire
his
taste,”
I
remarked,
“if
it
is
indeed
a
fact
that
he
was
averse
to
a
marriage
with
so
charming
a
young
lady
as
this
Miss
Turner.”
“Ah,
thereby
hangs
a
rather
painful
tale.
This
fellow
is
madly,
insanely,
in
love
with
her,
but
some
two
years
ago,
when
he
was
only
a
lad,
and
before
he
really
knew
her,
for
she
had
been
away
five
years
at
a
boarding-school,
what
does
the
idiot
do
but
get
into
the
clutches
of
a
barmaid
in
Bristol
and
marry
her
at
a
registry
office?
No
one
knows
a
word
of
the
matter,
but
you
can
imagine
how
maddening
it
must
be
to
him
to
be
upbraided
for
not
doing
what
he
would
give
his
very
eyes
to
do,
but
what
he
knows
to
be
absolutely
impossible.
It
was
sheer
frenzy
of
this
sort
which
made
him
throw
his
hands
up
into
the
air
when
his
father,
at
their
last
interview,
was
goading
him
on
to
propose
to
Miss
Turner.
On
the
other
hand,
he
had
no
means
of
supporting
himself,
and
his
father,
who
was
by
all
accounts
a
very
hard
man,
would
have
thrown
him
over
utterly
had
he
known
the
truth.
It
was
with
his
barmaid
wife
that
he
had
spent
the
last
three
days
in
Bristol,
and
his
father
did
not
know
where
he
was.
Mark
that
point.
It
is
of
importance.
Good
has
come
out
of
evil,
however,
for
the
barmaid,
finding
from
the
papers
that
he
is
in
serious
trouble
and
likely
to
be
hanged,
has
thrown
him
over
utterly
and
has
written
to
him
to
say
that
she
has
a
husband
already
in
the
Bermuda
Dockyard,
so
that
there
is
really
no
tie
between
them.
I
think
that
that
bit
of
news
has
consoled
young
McCarthy
for
all
that
he
has
suffered.”
“But
if
he
is
innocent,
who
has
done
it?”
“Ah!
who?
I
would
call
your
attention
very
particularly
to
two
points.
One
is
that
the
murdered
man
had
an
appointment
with
someone
at
the
pool,
and
that
the
someone
could
not
have
been
his
son,
for
his
son
was
away,
and
he
did
not
know
when
he
would
return.
The
second
is
that
the
murdered
man
was
heard
to
cry
‘Cooee!’
before
he
knew
that
his
son
had
returned.
Those
are
the
crucial
points
upon
which
the
case
depends.
And
now
let
us
talk
about
George
Meredith,
if
you
please,
and
we
shall
leave
all
minor
matters
until
to-morrow.”
There
was
no
rain,
as
Holmes
had
foretold,
and
the
morning
broke
bright
and
cloudless.
At
nine
o’clock
Lestrade
called
for
us
with
the
carriage,
and
we
set
off
for
Hatherley
Farm
and
the
Boscombe
Pool.
“There
is
serious
news
this
morning,”
Lestrade
observed.
“It
is
said
that
Mr.
Turner,
of
the
Hall,
is
so
ill
that
his
life
is
despaired
of.”
“An
elderly
man,
I
presume?”
said
Holmes.
“About
sixty;
but
his
constitution
has
been
shattered
by
his
life
abroad,
and
he
has
been
in
failing
health
for
some
time.
This
business
has
had
a
very
bad
effect
upon
him.
He
was
an
old
friend
of
McCarthy’s,
and,
I
may
add,
a
great
benefactor
to
him,
for
I
have
learned
that
he
gave
him
Hatherley
Farm
rent
free.”
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