福爾摩斯探案集·單身貴族案 第29期:真相大白(6)
"When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, and had always been his friend.
"回到寓所，我告訴了我的女傭人。她在加利福尼亞時就認識他，并且一直和他很友好。
I ordered her to say nothing, but to get a few things packed and my ulster ready.
我囑咐她什么也不要說，只要收拾一些東西，準備好我的長外套。
I know I ought to have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before his mother and all those great people.
我知道我應該向圣西蒙勛爵說明一下，但是在他母親和那些大人物面前難以張口。
I just made up my mind to run away and explain afterwards.
我只好下決心不辭而別，以后再作解釋。
I hadn't been at the table ten minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of the road.
我到餐桌就座還不到十分鐘，就看見弗蘭克站在窗外馬路的另一邊。
He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park.
他向我招了招手，隨即走進了公園。
I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him.
我穿戴好溜了出來，跟上他。
Some woman came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to me
這時有一個女人過來跟我談了些圣西蒙勛爵的閑話，
seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little secret of his own before marriage also
從她的只言片語中透露，似乎他在結婚前也有他自己的一點兒秘密，
but I managed to get away from her and soon overtook Frank.
但是我設法擺脫了她，很快就趕上了弗蘭克。
We got into a cab together, and away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square,
我們一起坐上了一輛出租馬車，駛往他在戈登廣場租下的寓所，
and that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting.
在盼了那么些歲月之后，這次我才真的算是結婚了。
Frank had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to 'Frisco,
弗蘭克在亞利桑那被印地安人囚禁過，后來他越獄逃跑，長途跋涉來到舊金山，
found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to England, followed me there,
他發(fā)現我以為他死了，并且已經到英國去了，他追蹤到了這里，
and had come upon me at last on the very morning of my second wedding."
終于在我舉行第二次婚禮的當天早上找到了我。"
"I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name and the church but not where the lady lived."
"我是在一張報紙上看到的，"這位美國人補充說。"報紙上登著教堂的名字，但沒有提到女方的住處。"
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