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<s> I AM SURPRISED THAT LORD SAINT SIMON HAS NOT ALREADY ARRIVED </s><s> HA </s><s> I FANCY THAT I HEAR HIS STEP NOW UPON THE STAIRS </s><s> IT WAS INDEED OUR VISITOR OF THE AFTERNOON WHO CAME BUSTLING IN DANGLING HIS GLASSES MORE VIGOROUSLY THAN EVER AND WITH A VERY PERTURBED EXPRESSION UPON HIS ARISTOCRATIC FEATURES </s><s> MY MESSENGER REACHED YOU THEN ASKED HOLMES </s><s> QUOTE YES AND I CONFESS THAT THE CONTENTS STARTLED ME BEYOND MEASURE </s><s> HAVE YOU GOOD AUTHORITY FOR WHAT YOU SAY </s><s> THE BEST POSSIBLE </s><s> LORD SAINT SIMON SANK INTO A CHAIR AND PASSED HIS HAND OVER HIS FOREHEAD </s><s> WHAT WILL THE DUKE SAY HE MURMURED WHEN HE HEARS THAT ONE OF THE FAMILY HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO SUCH HUMILIATION </s><s> IT IS THE PUREST ACCIDENT </s><s> I CANNOT ALLOW THAT THERE IS ANY HUMILIATION </s><s> QUOTE AH YOU LOOK ON THESE THINGS FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT QUOTE </s><s> I FAIL TO SEE THAT ANYONE IS TO BLAME </s><s> I CAN HARDLY SEE HOW THE LADY COULD HAVE ACTED OTHERWISE THOUGH HER ABRUPT METHOD OF DOING IT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY TO BE REGRETTED </s><s> HAVING NO MOTHER SHE HAD NO ONE TO ADVISE HER AT SUCH A CRISIS </s><s> IT WAS A SLIGHT SIR A PUBLIC SLIGHT SAID LORD SAINT SIMON TAPPING HIS FINGERS UPON THE TABLE </s><s> YOU MUST MAKE ALLOWANCE FOR THIS POOR GIRL PLACED IN SO UNPRECEDENTED A POSITION </s><s> I WILL MAKE NO ALLOWANCE </s><s> I AM VERY ANGRY INDEED AND I HAVE BEEN SHAMEFULLY USED QUOTE </s><s> I THINK THAT I HEARD A RING SAID HOLMES </s><s> YES THERE ARE STEPS ON THE LANDING </s><s> IF I CANNOT PERSUADE YOU TO TAKE A LENIENT VIEW OF THE MATTER LORD SAINT SIMON I HAVE BROUGHT AN ADVOCATE HERE WHO MAY BE MORE SUCCESSFUL </s><s> HE OPENED THE DOOR AND USHERED IN A LADY AND GENTLEMAN </s><s> LORD SAINT SIMON SAID HE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MR. AND MRS. FRANCIS HAY MOULTON </s><s> THE LADY I THINK YOU HAVE ALREADY MET </s><s> AT THE SIGHT OF THESE NEWCOMERS OUR CLIENT HAD SPRUNG FROM HIS SEAT AND STOOD VERY ERECT WITH HIS EYES CAST DOWN AND HIS HAND THRUST INTO THE BREAST OF HIS FROCK COAT A PICTURE OF OFFENDED DIGNITY </s><s> THE LADY HAD TAKEN A QUICK STEP FORWARD AND HAD HELD OUT HER HAND TO HIM BUT HE STILL REFUSED TO RAISE HIS EYES </s><s> IT WAS AS WELL FOR HIS RESOLUTION PERHAPS FOR HER PLEADING FACE WAS ONE WHICH IT WAS HARD TO RESIST </s><s> QUOTE YOU'RE ANGRY ROBERT QUOTE SAID SHE </s><s> WELL I GUESS YOU HAVE EVERY CAUSE TO BE </s><s> PRAY MAKE NO APOLOGY TO ME SAID LORD SAINT SIMON BITTERLY </s><s> OH YES I KNOW THAT I HAVE TREATED YOU REAL BAD AND THAT I SHOULD HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU BEFORE I WENT BUT I WAS KIND OF RATTLED AND FROM THE TIME WHEN I SAW FRANK HERE AGAIN I JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING OR SAYING </s><s> I ONLY WONDER I DIDN'T FALL DOWN AND DO A FAINT RIGHT THERE BEFORE THE ALTAR </s><s> PERHAPS MRS. MOULTON YOU WOULD LIKE MY FRIEND AND ME TO LEAVE THE ROOM WHILE YOU EXPLAIN THIS MATTER </s><s> QUOTE IF I MAY GIVE AN OPINION QUOTE REMARKED THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN QUOTE WE'VE HAD JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH SECRECY OVER THIS BUSINESS ALREADY </s><s> FOR MY PART I SHOULD LIKE ALL EUROPE AND AMERICA TO HEAR THE RIGHTS OF IT </s><s> HE WAS A SMALL WIRY SUNBURNT MAN CLEAN SHAVEN WITH A SHARP FACE AND ALERT MANNER </s><s> THEN I'LL TELL OUR STORY RIGHT AWAY SAID THE LADY </s><s> FRANK HERE AND I MET IN EIGHTY FOUR IN MCQUIRE'S CAMP NEAR THE ROCKIES WHERE PA WAS WORKING A CLAIM </s><s> WE WERE ENGAGED TO EACH OTHER FRANK AND I BUT THEN ONE DAY FATHER STRUCK A RICH POCKET AND MADE A PILE WHILE POOR FRANK HERE HAD A CLAIM THAT PETERED OUT AND CAME TO NOTHING </s><s> THE RICHER PA GREW THE POORER WAS FRANK SO AT LAST PA WOULDN'T HEAR OF OUR ENGAGEMENT LASTING ANY LONGER AND HE TOOK ME AWAY TO FRISCO </s><s> FRANK WOULDN'T THROW UP HIS HAND THOUGH SO HE FOLLOWED ME THERE AND HE SAW ME WITHOUT PA KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT IT </s><s> IT WOULD ONLY HAVE MADE HIM MAD TO KNOW SO WE JUST FIXED IT ALL UP FOR OURSELVES </s><s> FRANK SAID THAT HE WOULD GO AND MAKE HIS PILE TOO AND NEVER COME BACK TO CLAIM ME UNTIL HE HAD AS MUCH AS PA </s><s> SO THEN I PROMISED TO WAIT FOR HIM TO THE END OF TIME AND PLEDGED MYSELF NOT TO MARRY ANYONE ELSE WHILE HE LIVED </s><s> WHY SHOULDN'T WE BE MARRIED RIGHT AWAY THEN SAID HE AND THEN I WILL FEEL SURE OF YOU AND I WON'T CLAIM TO BE YOUR HUSBAND UNTIL I COME BACK </s><s> WELL WE TALKED IT OVER AND HE HAD FIXED IT ALL UP SO NICELY WITH A CLERGYMAN ALL READY IN WAITING THAT WE JUST DID IT RIGHT THERE AND THEN FRANK WENT OFF TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE AND I WENT BACK TO PA </s><s> THE NEXT I HEARD OF FRANK WAS THAT HE WAS IN MONTANA AND THEN HE WENT PROSPECTING IN ARIZONA AND THEN I HEARD OF HIM FROM NEW MEXICO </s><s> AFTER THAT CAME A LONG NEWSPAPER STORY ABOUT HOW A MINERS' CAMP HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY APACHE INDIANS AND THERE WAS MY FRANK'S NAME AMONG THE KILLED </s><s> I FAINTED DEAD AWAY AND I WAS VERY SICK FOR MONTHS AFTER </s><s> PA THOUGHT I HAD A DECLINE AND TOOK ME TO HALF THE DOCTORS IN FRISCO </s><s> NOT A WORD OF NEWS CAME FOR A YEAR AND MORE SO THAT I NEVER DOUBTED THAT FRANK WAS REALLY DEAD </s><s> THEN LORD SAINT SIMON CAME TO FRISCO AND WE CAME TO LONDON AND A MARRIAGE WAS ARRANGED AND PA WAS VERY PLEASED BUT I FELT ALL THE TIME THAT NO MAN ON THIS EARTH WOULD EVER TAKE THE PLACE IN MY HEART THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO MY POOR FRANK </s><s> STILL IF I HAD MARRIED LORD SAINT SIMON OF COURSE I'D HAVE DONE MY DUTY BY HIM </s><s> WE CAN'T COMMAND OUR LOVE BUT WE CAN OUR ACTIONS </s><s> I WENT TO THE ALTAR WITH HIM WITH THE INTENTION TO MAKE HIM JUST AS GOOD A WIFE AS IT WAS IN ME TO BE </s><s> BUT YOU MAY IMAGINE WHAT I FELT WHEN JUST AS I CAME TO THE ALTAR RAILS I GLANCED BACK AND SAW FRANK STANDING AND LOOKING AT ME OUT OF THE FIRST PEW </s><s> I THOUGHT IT WAS HIS GHOST AT FIRST BUT WHEN I LOOKED AGAIN THERE HE WAS STILL WITH A KIND OF QUESTION IN HIS EYES AS IF TO ASK ME WHETHER I WERE GLAD OR SORRY TO SEE HIM </s><s> I WONDER I DIDN'T DROP </s><s> I KNOW THAT EVERYTHING WAS TURNING ROUND AND THE WORDS OF THE CLERGYMAN WERE JUST LIKE THE BUZZ OF A BEE IN MY EAR </s><s> I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO </s><s> SHOULD I STOP THE SERVICE AND MAKE A SCENE IN THE CHURCH </s><s> I GLANCED AT HIM AGAIN AND HE SEEMED TO KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING FOR HE RAISED HIS FINGER TO HIS LIPS TO TELL ME TO BE STILL </s><s> THEN I SAW HIM SCRIBBLE ON A PIECE OF PAPER AND I KNEW THAT HE WAS WRITING ME A NOTE </s><s> AS I PASSED HIS PEW ON THE WAY OUT I DROPPED MY BOUQUET OVER TO HIM AND HE SLIPPED THE NOTE INTO MY HAND WHEN HE RETURNED ME THE FLOWERS </s><s> IT WAS ONLY A LINE ASKING ME TO JOIN HIM WHEN HE MADE THE SIGN TO ME TO DO SO </s><s> OF COURSE I NEVER DOUBTED FOR A MOMENT THAT MY FIRST DUTY WAS NOW TO HIM AND I DETERMINED TO DO JUST WHATEVER HE MIGHT DIRECT </s><s> QUOTE WHEN I GOT BACK I TOLD MY MAID WHO HAD KNOWN HIM IN CALIFORNIA AND HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS FRIEND </s><s> I ORDERED HER TO SAY NOTHING BUT TO GET A FEW THINGS PACKED AND MY ULSTER READY </s><s> I KNOW I OUGHT TO HAVE SPOKEN TO LORD SAINT SIMON BUT IT WAS DREADFUL HARD BEFORE HIS MOTHER AND ALL THOSE GREAT PEOPLE </s><s> I JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO RUN AWAY AND EXPLAIN AFTERWARDS </s><s> I HADN'T BEEN AT THE TABLE TEN MINUTES BEFORE I SAW FRANK OUT OF THE WINDOW AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD </s><s> HE BECKONED TO ME AND THEN BEGAN WALKING INTO THE PARK </s><s> I SLIPPED OUT PUT ON MY THINGS AND FOLLOWED HIM </s><s> SOME WOMAN CAME TALKING SOMETHING OR OTHER ABOUT LORD SAINT SIMON TO ME SEEMED TO ME FROM THE LITTLE I HEARD AS IF HE HAD A LITTLE SECRET OF HIS OWN BEFORE MARRIAGE ALSO BUT I MANAGED TO GET AWAY FROM HER AND SOON OVERTOOK FRANK </s><s> WE GOT INTO A CAB TOGETHER AND AWAY WE DROVE TO SOME LODGINGS HE HAD TAKEN IN GORDON SQUARE AND THAT WAS MY TRUE WEDDING AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS OF WAITING </s><s> FRANK HAD BEEN A PRISONER AMONG THE APACHES HAD ESCAPED CAME ON TO FRISCO FOUND THAT I HAD GIVEN HIM UP FOR DEAD AND HAD GONE TO ENGLAND FOLLOWED ME THERE AND HAD COME UPON ME AT LAST ON THE VERY MORNING OF MY SECOND WEDDING </s><s> I SAW IT IN A PAPER EXPLAINED THE AMERICAN </s><s> IT GAVE THE NAME AND THE CHURCH BUT NOT WHERE THE LADY LIVED </s><s> THEN WE HAD A TALK AS TO WHAT WE SHOULD DO AND FRANK WAS ALL FOR OPENNESS BUT I WAS SO ASHAMED OF IT ALL THAT I FELT AS IF I SHOULD LIKE TO VANISH AWAY AND NEVER SEE ANY OF THEM AGAIN JUST SENDING A LINE TO PA PERHAPS TO SHOW HIM THAT I WAS ALIVE </s><s> IT WAS AWFUL TO ME TO THINK OF ALL THOSE LORDS AND LADIES SITTING ROUND THAT BREAKFAST TABLE AND WAITING FOR ME TO COME BACK </s><s> SO FRANK TOOK MY WEDDING CLOTHES AND THINGS AND MADE A BUNDLE OF THEM SO THAT I SHOULD NOT BE TRACED AND DROPPED THEM AWAY SOMEWHERE WHERE NO ONE COULD FIND THEM </s><s> IT IS LIKELY THAT WE SHOULD HAVE GONE ON TO PARIS TO MORROW ONLY THAT THIS GOOD GENTLEMAN MR. HOLMES CAME ROUND TO US THIS EVENING THOUGH HOW HE FOUND US IS MORE THAN I CAN THINK AND HE SHOWED US VERY CLEARLY AND KINDLY THAT I WAS WRONG AND THAT FRANK WAS RIGHT AND THAT WE SHOULD BE PUTTING OURSELVES IN THE WRONG IF WE WERE SO SECRET </s><s> THEN HE OFFERED TO GIVE US A CHANCE OF TALKING TO LORD SAINT SIMON ALONE AND SO WE CAME RIGHT AWAY ROUND TO HIS ROOMS AT ONCE </s><s> NOW ROBERT YOU HAVE HEARD IT ALL AND I AM VERY SORRY IF I HAVE GIVEN YOU PAIN AND I HOPE THAT YOU DO NOT THINK VERY MEANLY OF ME </s><s> LORD SAINT SIMON HAD BY NO MEANS RELAXED HIS RIGID ATTITUDE BUT HAD LISTENED WITH A FROWNING BROW AND A COMPRESSED LIP TO THIS LONG NARRATIVE </s><s> QUOTE EXCUSE ME QUOTE HE SAID QUOTE BUT IT IS NOT MY CUSTOM TO DISCUSS MY MOST INTIMATE PERSONAL AFFAIRS IN THIS PUBLIC MANNER QUOTE </s><s> THEN YOU WON'T FORGIVE ME </s><s> YOU WON'T SHAKE HANDS BEFORE I GO </s><s> OH CERTAINLY IF IT WOULD GIVE YOU ANY PLEASURE </s><s> HE PUT OUT HIS HAND AND COLDLY GRASPED THAT WHICH SHE EXTENDED TO HIM </s><s> I HAD HOPED SUGGESTED HOLMES THAT YOU WOULD HAVE JOINED US IN A FRIENDLY SUPPER </s><s> I THINK THAT THERE YOU ASK A LITTLE TOO MUCH RESPONDED HIS LORDSHIP </s><s> QUOTE I MAY BE FORCED TO ACQUIESCE IN THESE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BUT I CAN HARDLY BE EXPECTED TO MAKE MERRY OVER THEM </s><s> I THINK THAT WITH YOUR PERMISSION I WILL NOW WISH YOU ALL A VERY GOOD NIGHT </s><s> HE INCLUDED US ALL IN A SWEEPING BOW AND STALKED OUT OF THE ROOM </s><s> THEN I TRUST THAT YOU AT LEAST WILL HONOUR ME WITH YOUR COMPANY SAID SHERLOCK HOLMES </s><s> IT IS ALWAYS A JOY TO MEET AN AMERICAN MR. MOULTON FOR I AM ONE OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE FOLLY OF A MONARCH AND THE BLUNDERING OF A MINISTER IN FAR GONE YEARS WILL NOT PREVENT OUR CHILDREN FROM BEING SOME DAY CITIZENS OF THE SAME WORLD WIDE COUNTRY UNDER A FLAG WHICH SHALL BE A QUARTERING OF THE UNION JACK WITH THE STARS AND STRIPES </s><s> THE CASE HAS BEEN AN INTERESTING ONE REMARKED HOLMES WHEN OUR VISITORS HAD LEFT US BECAUSE IT SERVES TO SHOW VERY CLEARLY HOW SIMPLE THE EXPLANATION MAY BE OF AN AFFAIR WHICH AT FIRST SIGHT SEEMS TO BE ALMOST INEXPLICABLE </s><s> NOTHING COULD BE MORE NATURAL THAN THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS AS NARRATED BY THIS LADY AND NOTHING STRANGER THAN THE RESULT WHEN VIEWED FOR INSTANCE BY MR. LESTRADE OF SCOTLAND YARD </s><s> QUOTE YOU WERE NOT YOURSELF AT FAULT AT ALL THEN QUOTE </s><s> FROM THE FIRST TWO FACTS WERE VERY OBVIOUS TO ME THE ONE THAT THE LADY HAD BEEN QUITE WILLING TO UNDERGO THE WEDDING CEREMONY THE OTHER THAT SHE HAD REPENTED OF IT WITHIN A FEW MINUTES OF RETURNING HOME </s><s> OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING HAD OCCURRED DURING THE MORNING THEN TO CAUSE HER TO CHANGE HER MIND </s><s> WHAT COULD THAT SOMETHING BE </s><s> SHE COULD NOT HAVE SPOKEN TO ANYONE WHEN SHE WAS OUT FOR SHE HAD BEEN IN THE COMPANY OF THE BRIDEGROOM </s><s> HAD SHE SEEN SOMEONE THEN </s><s> IF SHE HAD IT MUST BE SOMEONE FROM AMERICA BECAUSE SHE HAD SPENT SO SHORT A TIME IN THIS COUNTRY THAT SHE COULD HARDLY HAVE ALLOWED ANYONE TO ACQUIRE SO DEEP AN INFLUENCE OVER HER THAT THE MERE SIGHT OF HIM WOULD INDUCE HER TO CHANGE HER PLANS SO COMPLETELY </s><s> YOU SEE WE HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED BY A PROCESS OF EXCLUSION AT THE IDEA THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE SEEN AN AMERICAN </s><s> THEN WHO COULD THIS AMERICAN BE AND WHY SHOULD HE POSSESS SO MUCH INFLUENCE OVER HER </s><s> IT MIGHT BE A LOVER IT MIGHT BE A HUSBAND </s><s> HER YOUNG WOMANHOOD HAD I KNEW BEEN SPENT IN ROUGH SCENES AND UNDER STRANGE CONDITIONS </s><s> SO FAR I HAD GOT BEFORE I EVER HEARD LORD SAINT SIMON'S NARRATIVE </s><s> WHEN HE TOLD US OF A MAN IN A PEW OF THE CHANGE IN THE BRIDE'S MANNER OF SO TRANSPARENT A DEVICE FOR OBTAINING A NOTE AS THE DROPPING OF A BOUQUET OF HER RESORT TO HER CONFIDENTIAL MAID AND OF HER VERY SIGNIFICANT ALLUSION TO CLAIMJUMPING WHICH IN MINERS' PARLANCE MEANS TAKING POSSESSION OF THAT WHICH ANOTHER PERSON HAS A PRIOR CLAIM TO THE WHOLE SITUATION BECAME ABSOLUTELY CLEAR </s><s> SHE HAD GONE OFF WITH A MAN AND THE MAN WAS EITHER A LOVER OR WAS A PREVIOUS HUSBAND THE CHANCES BEING IN FAVOUR OF THE LATTER </s><s> AND HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU FIND THEM </s><s> IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT BUT FRIEND LESTRADE HELD INFORMATION IN HIS HANDS THE VALUE OF WHICH HE DID NOT HIMSELF KNOW </s><s> THE INITIALS WERE OF COURSE OF THE HIGHEST IMPORTANCE BUT MORE VALUABLE STILL WAS IT TO KNOW THAT WITHIN A WEEK HE HAD SETTLED HIS BILL AT ONE OF THE MOST SELECT LONDON HOTELS </s><s> QUOTE HOW DID YOU DEDUCE THE SELECT QUOTE </s><s> BY THE SELECT PRICES </s><s> EIGHT SHILLINGS FOR A BED AND EIGHTPENCE FOR A GLASS OF SHERRY POINTED TO ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOTELS </s><s> THERE ARE NOT MANY IN LONDON WHICH CHARGE AT THAT RATE </s><s> IN THE SECOND ONE WHICH I VISITED IN NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE I LEARNED BY AN INSPECTION OF THE BOOK THAT FRANCIS H. MOULTON AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN HAD LEFT ONLY THE DAY BEFORE AND ON LOOKING OVER THE ENTRIES AGAINST HIM I CAME UPON THE VERY ITEMS WHICH I HAD SEEN IN THE DUPLICATE BILL </s><s> HIS LETTERS WERE TO BE FORWARDED TO TWO HUNDRED TWENTY SIX GORDON SQUARE SO THITHER I TRAVELLED AND BEING FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO FIND THE LOVING COUPLE AT HOME L. VENTURED TO GIVE THEM SOME PATERNAL ADVICE AND TO POINT OUT TO THEM THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER IN EVERY WAY THAT THEY SHOULD MAKE THEIR POSITION A LITTLE CLEARER BOTH TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND TO LORD SAINT SIMON IN PARTICULAR </s><s> I INVITED THEM TO MEET HIM HERE AND AS YOU SEE I MADE HIM KEEP THE APPOINTMENT </s><s> BUT WITH NO VERY GOOD RESULT I REMARKED </s><s> HIS CONDUCT WAS CERTAINLY NOT VERY GRACIOUS </s><s> AH WATSON SAID HOLMES SMILING PERHAPS YOU WOULD NOT BE VERY GRACIOUS EITHER IF AFTER ALL THE TROUBLE OF WOOING AND WEDDING YOU FOUND YOURSELF DEPRIVED IN AN INSTANT OF WIFE AND OF FORTUNE </s><s> I THINK THAT WE MAY JUDGE LORD SAINT SIMON VERY MERCIFULLY AND THANK OUR STARS THAT WE ARE NEVER LIKELY TO FIND OURSELVES IN THE SAME POSITION </s><s> DRAW YOUR CHAIR UP AND HAND ME MY VIOLIN FOR THE ONLY PROBLEM WE HAVE STILL TO SOLVE IS HOW TO WHILE AWAY THESE BLEAK AUTUMNAL EVENINGS QUOTE </s>
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