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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Capítulo 4, Página 9
“‘Then
if
it
was
removed
it
was
while
you
were
within
a
dozen
yards
of
it?’”
“‘Yes,
but
with
my
back
towards
it.’”
“This
concluded
the
examination
of
the
witness.”
“I
see,”
said
I
as
I
glanced
down
the
column,
“that
the
coroner
in
his
concluding
remarks
was
rather
severe
upon
young
McCarthy.
He
calls
attention,
and
with
reason,
to
the
discrepancy
about
his
father
having
signalled
to
him
before
seeing
him,
also
to
his
refusal
to
give
details
of
his
conversation
with
his
father,
and
his
singular
account
of
his
father’s
dying
words.
They
are
all,
as
he
remarks,
very
much
against
the
son.”
Holmes
laughed
softly
to
himself
and
stretched
himself
out
upon
the
cushioned
seat.
“Both
you
and
the
coroner
have
been
at
some
pains,”
said
he,
“to
single
out
the
very
strongest
points
in
the
young
man’s
favour.
Don’t
you
see
that
you
alternately
give
him
credit
for
having
too
much
imagination
and
too
little?
Too
little,
if
he
could
not
invent
a
cause
of
quarrel
which
would
give
him
the
sympathy
of
the
jury;
too
much,
if
he
evolved
from
his
own
inner
consciousness
anything
so
outré
as
a
dying
reference
to
a
rat,
and
the
incident
of
the
vanishing
cloth.
No,
sir,
I
shall
approach
this
case
from
the
point
of
view
that
what
this
young
man
says
is
true,
and
we
shall
see
whither
that
hypothesis
will
lead
us.
And
now
here
is
my
pocket
Petrarch,
and
not
another
word
shall
I
say
of
this
case
until
we
are
on
the
scene
of
action.
We
lunch
at
Swindon,
and
I
see
that
we
shall
be
there
in
twenty
minutes.”
It
was
nearly
four
o’clock
when
we
at
last,
after
passing
through
the
beautiful
Stroud
Valley,
and
over
the
broad
gleaming
Severn,
found
ourselves
at
the
pretty
little
country-town
of
Ross.
A
lean,
ferret-like
man,
furtive
and
sly-looking,
was
waiting
for
us
upon
the
platform.
In
spite
of
the
light
brown
dustcoat
and
leather-leggings
which
he
wore
in
deference
to
his
rustic
surroundings,
I
had
no
difficulty
in
recognising
Lestrade,
of
Scotland
Yard.
With
him
we
drove
to
the
Hereford
Arms
where
a
room
had
already
been
engaged
for
us.
“I
have
ordered
a
carriage,”
said
Lestrade
as
we
sat
over
a
cup
of
tea.
“I
knew
your
energetic
nature,
and
that
you
would
not
be
happy
until
you
had
been
on
the
scene
of
the
crime.”
“It
was
very
nice
and
complimentary
of
you,”
Holmes
answered.
“It
is
entirely
a
question
of
barometric
pressure.”
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