In this story Dr. Watson wrote one of the work of Holmes’s he did with a little help of Detective Lestrade. The second son of Duke of Balmoral, Lord Robert St. Simon, 41 yrs. old, wed Miss Hatty Doran a young, American and independent woman and only daughter of Aloysius Doran, a man found fortune on gold mining, but on their breakfast reception Hatty left without saying anything to her new husband nor her father and she did not return. Miss Flora Millar a ballet dancer who made some disturbance on the reception that morning, a former ‘acquaintance’ of the Lord Robert, who reported to be the last person seen with Hatty walking in the park, was arrested. Sherlock located Hatty, with the help of the note discovered in the wedding dress of Hatty found by a park keeper. In the meeting set by Sherlock in his place, Hatty explains to Robert that she was married to Francis Hay Moulton before they met. They wed before Francis left to seek his own luck and find his gold. They hide it from her father because he objected Francis for he is poor. Apache Indians attacked Francis’s mine camp, he was held captive and his companions were killed. Hatty thought that Francis was one of the men died and after more than a year of grief, she agreed to marry Robert. Francis escaped and looked for Hatty, he found her on the day of their marriage. And Hatty knew her duty is to her first and real husband, so she left. Robert could not do anything but to sadly accept the bitter truth.
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