The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 42 (2/2)
”But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to her roo ulster, put on a bonnet, and went out”
”Quite so And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who had already ”
”Ah, yes I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, and your relations to her”
Lord St Sied his shoulders and raised his eyebrows
”We have been on a friendly footing for so She used to be at the Allegro I have not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of coainst me, but you knoo, but exceedingly hot-headed and devotedly attached to me She wrote me dreadful letters when she heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the reason why I had the e celebrated so quietly was that I feared lest there ht be a scandal in the church She came to Mr Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towardsher, but I had foreseen the possibility of so of the sort, and I had two police fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again
She was quiet when she saw that there was no good ina row”
”Did your wife hear all this?”
”No, thank goodness, she did not”
”And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?”
”Yes That is what Mr Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as so serious It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some terrible trap for her”
”Well, it is a possible supposition”
”You think so, too?”
”I did not say a probable one But you do not yourself look upon this as likely?”
”I do not think Flora would hurt a fly”
”Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters Pray what is your own theory as to what took place?”
”Well, really, I caiven you all the facts Since you ask me, however, I may say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of this affair, the consciousness that she hadsome little nervous disturbance in ed?”
”Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashi+on”
”Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis,” said Hol ”And now, Lord St Simon, I think that I have nearly all my data May I ask whether you were seated at the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the ?”
”We could see the other side of the road and the Park”
”Quite so Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer
I shall coh to solve this proble
”I have solved it”
”Eh? What was that?”