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Anything remarkable
on hand, Lestrade?

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No.

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Nothing in particular.

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Then tell us about it.

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Now you've come to
mention it, Mr. Holmes.

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There's no denying
there is something on my mind.

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It first came to my
notice four days ago.

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A certain Morse Hudson has a shop
for the sale of pictures and statues

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in Kennington Road.

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But what happened last night was
more serious and also more singular.

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Burglary.

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Exactly.

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A house of a Doctor Barnicot
was broken into.

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Now this bust was one of a pair
purchased from Morse Hudson

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by Doctor Barnicot.

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He had put it in his house.

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The other, he put two
miles away in his surgery.

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Later that same night.

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This is certainly very novel.

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Yes, I thought it would please you.

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Though in my opinion, it comes more
into Doctor Watson's line than ours.

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Disease?

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I should say madness.

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Queer sort of madness, too.

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You wouldn't think there
was anybody living-

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nowadays, would you, have such
a hatred for Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Actually there are no limits
to the possibilities of monomania.

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You see, there is the condition

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that the modern French psychologists
have called an "idee fixe".

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If someone became obsessed
with, say-

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many injustice committed to an
ancestor during the Napoleonic wars,

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he might form an "idee fixe"
and under its influence.

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He might be capable of
any fantastic outrage.

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My dear Watson, that won't do.

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How do you explain it then?

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I don't attempt to do so.

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My winning.

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I would simply observe-

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that there's a certain method in
this gentleman's eccentric madness.

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I mean, for example,
in Dr. Barnicot's house,

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where a sound might have
aroused the sleeping family,

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the bust was taken outside
before being broken,

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whereas in his surgery, where
there was less danger of alarm,

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it was smashed where he stood.

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I only mentioned it
because you usually have a taste

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for all that is out of the common,
no matter how trivial.

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No, I dare call nothing
trivial, Lestrade.

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Some of my most classic cases have
had the least promising commencement.

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Yeah, that dreadful business
of the Abernetty family.

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I hardly call the dismemberment
of an entire family trivial.

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Well Watson, would you be
so kind as to explain?

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What?

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Well the point is that it
only came to Holmes' notice,

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because the depths which the parsley
had sunk into the butter on a hot day.

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So you see I cannot afford to smile
at your three busts, Lestrade.

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However, I would be obliged
if you would keep me informed

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as to developments.

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Listen to this Holmes, "Come Instantly,
1-3-1 Pitt Street, Kensington, Lestrade."

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What's it about?

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Well it could be anything but I suspect
it's a sequel to his story of last night.

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You know, my "idee fixe".
Finish your coffee.

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There's a cab at the door.

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Two minutes.

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It's attempted murder at least.

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Nothing less will hold
the London message boy.

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There's a deed of violence in that
young fellow's round shoulders

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and out-stretched neck.

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Well, Lestrade will soon tell us.

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Look at this, Watson.

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The bottom steps swilled down
and the others dry.

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Footstep's enough, anyhow.
Yes, but whose?

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It's the Napoleon bust
business again, gentlemen.

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They smashed another?

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I'm afraid the affair
has taken a graver turn.

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This way.

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Mr. Harker, allow me to present,
Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.

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Mr. Horace Harker, of the
Central Press Syndicate.

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Good of you to come, gentlemen.

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Please forgive my agitation.

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No apology necessary, Mr. Harker.

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A body on one's front doorstep
is always unsettling.

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You've told him, then?

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Not a word.

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Now, tell us exactly what occurred.

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It's an extraordinary thing.

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All my life, I've been
collecting other people's news,

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and now I have a real
life story of my own,

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and I can't put two words together.

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If I had been a journalist
and walked in through that door,

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I would have interviewed myself

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and had two columns in
every London newspaper.

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And here I am giving away
valuable copy by telling my story

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over and over again
to a string of different people.

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However, I've heard of
your name, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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So if you could explain
this queer business

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I'd be more than paid for my
trouble in telling you my story.

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A great deal of my journalistic work
is done at night in my den,

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in that room adjacent to this one.

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At some time, in the small
hours of this morning.

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I shall live that moment
over and over again in my dreams.

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Do we know who the
murdered man was?

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Not yet. But you can see the body
at the mortuary, if you wish.

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Where did you purchase
your bust, Mr. Harker?

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From Mr. Hudson of Kennington Road.

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Do we know what became of it?

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The officer at the door tells me
it's been found in the front garden

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of an empty house
on Campden House Road.

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I was just going round to
see it. Will you come?

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In a moment, Lestrade.

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Well, the intruder either had very
long legs or was a most active man,

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with that area beneath, it was no
mean feat to climb up to this ledge

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let alone, to open the window.

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Mr. Harker, will you come with us
to see the remains of your bust?

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I must make something of it,

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although I have no doubt
that every newspaper in London

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will be on the streets with a full
and detailed account.

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Just my luck.

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Do you remember when the stand
fell down at the Doncaster Races?

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I was the only journalist in that stand,
and my journal was the only one

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that didn't have a published account
because I was too shaken to write a word.

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Now, I should be too late
with a murder on my own doorstep.

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Well?

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We have a long way to go
but there is one suggestive fact.

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He didn't smash this in the house
or immediately outside it.

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Well, perhaps he was so
rattled and bustled

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by meeting this other fellow that
he hardly knew what he was doing.

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That's likely enough.

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But why did he choose to destroy it
outside this particular house?

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It's empty. So he knew
he wouldn't be disturbed.

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Yes, but there's another
empty house

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further up the street
he must have passed.

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Why not destroy it there?

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The lamp.

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By Jove, you're right.

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What are we to make of that?

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Holmes?

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Remember it., docket it.

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We may come on something later,
which will bear upon it.

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Meanwhile, before we
go our separate ways,

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I suggest we make one
last concerted visit.

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Where to?

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The morgue.

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They made nothing of
his identity up to now.

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He was poorly dressed but doesn't
seem to have been a laborer.

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Whoever's responsible did a
nasty job on the fellow's throat.

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Oh, that was the murder
weapon, had a serrated blade.

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But whether it belonged to the murderer
or the dead man we don't yet know.

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Anything in his pockets
to help identify him?

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Precious little.

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If it might interest you, Mr. Holmes.

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Forgive me, Lestrade,
I was just contemplating

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the one mystery that
not even I can solve.

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Death itself. Pray continue.

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As you can see,
he carried very little.

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An apple, some string,
a shilling map of London,

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and a photograph.

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Or a part of one- it's torn.

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Look.

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Ugly looking devil,

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positively Simian.

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What steps do you
propose next, Lestrade?

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Well, the most practical
way of getting at it,

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in my opinion, is to
identify the dead man.

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Once we know who he is
and who his associates are,

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we should have a good
start in learning

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who killed him on the doorstep
of Mr. Horace Harker.

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Don't you think so, Mr. Holmes?

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No doubt. It is not the way
that I would conduct the case.

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Oh what would you do?

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Oh, don't let me
influence you, Lestrade.

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I suggest that you follow
your line of inquiry, and I, mine.

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And we can compare notes,
and each supplement the other.

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But if you are returning
to Pitt Street,

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I would be grateful if
you would tell Mr. Harker

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that I have quite made up my mind

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in this matter.

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And so there was a dangerous
and homicidal lunatic

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with Napoleonic delusions
at his house last night.

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It will help him in his article.

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You don't seriously
believe that, Holmes?

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Don't I? Well, perhaps not.

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I'm sure it will please
Mr. Horace Harker

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and the subscribers to
the Central Press Agency.

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I would be grateful, Lestrade,

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if you could make it convenient
to come around to Baker Street

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at six o'clock this evening.

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Until then, I would like to keep
this photograph-

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found in the dead man's pocket.

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Oh, Mr. Holmes that
might be a vital clue.

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I trust it is, otherwise
it's of no interest to me.

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Good luck, Lestrade.

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What we pay our taxes for,
I don't know,

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when any ruffian can walk in and
break one's goods under one's nose.

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A superb bit of
craftsmanship it was, too,

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taken from a marble copy of
the Emperor's head by Devins.

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Are you familiar, by any chance,
with that great artists oeuvre.

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Yes, indeed.
Speaking of familiarly,

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do you recognize the
man in this photograph?

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Man in the photograph?
Yes, indeed, I do, Mr. Holmes.

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The name's Beppo.

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Beppo?

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Yes, he was a sort of
Italian piecework man,

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who made himself useful
here in the shop.

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Oh, he could carve a bit,
and frame, and guild.

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I took him on about ten days ago,

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but he only stayed a week
and then just disappeared.

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Didn't even collect his wages.

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Perhaps he was responsible
for the breakages.

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Responsible for the breakages?
Huh, responsible for the breakages?

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My dear sir, this is an
international conspiracy.

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A Nihilist plot.
Red Republicans, I call them.

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Yes. No one but an Anarchist
would go about breaking statues.

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Did they break every
one that you sold?

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Break every one I sold?
Well, hardly that.

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Just the two bought by a local doctor
and the one left here in my shop.

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If anything happened to the
other three, I know nothing of it.

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Three? So there was
six to begin with?

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Six to begin with?
Yes, yes. A batch of six.

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I ordered them especially
from Gelder & Company of Stepney.

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They do excellent molding work.

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Do you happen to know the names
and addresses of the other customers?

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My ledgers, Mr. Holmes, are
confidential.

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Mr. Hudson,

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if your theory's correct, ought
we to warn these people of this,

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this most dangerous plot?

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And who better to do that
than Mr. Sherlock Holmes?

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Yes, quite right. Quite right, sir

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Yes, the country slumbers
but we shall remain vigilant.

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Follow me, sir.

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Here we are. Mr. Josiah
Brown of Chiswick,

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and Mrs. Sandeford of Reading.

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Mrs?

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Mr. Hudson.

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Did your two busts differ
in anyway from the other four?

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Differ from the other four?
No, no. They were all identical

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and all with a beautiful
decoration, which I ordered especially.

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Apart from the decoration, were your
six busts the same as all the others?

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The same as all the others?
Well, I suppose so.

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But you'd have to apply direct to
Gelder & Company to find that out,

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In person.

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Excellent idea.

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Gentlemen? Gentlemen?
When you meet the manager

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would you be good enough
to warn him of the conspiracy?

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With all the busts they have
on the premises,

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the Red Republicans
could have a field day.

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Normally we sell the
bust without decoration,

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but Mr. Hudson ordered that
the whole uniform be painted.

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It was extra detail and made it
a very special, it's sure.

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In times of the construction,
however, there is no reason

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why the six Napoleons
we sold to him

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should be different from
hundreds of others.

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You see, the two molds are put
together and filled with plaster

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to make the complete bust.

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Are they solid?

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Solid? Yes, of course.
Naturally.

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Then, they are placed in a special
room to dry and afterwards stored.

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Their wholesale price is six shillings
but we would get twelve or more.

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I can think of no reason that
someone should wish to destroy them.

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Or murder for them.

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Murder?

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So,

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your interest in the molding
process had ulterior motives?

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Herr Mendelstam, I wonder if you happen to
recognize the man in this photograph?

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The rascal.

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Yes, indeed. I know him very well.

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This has always been a
respectable establishment

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and the only time we ever had the
police in here was over this fellow.

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About a year ago, he knifed
another Italian in the street

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and ran in here with
the police on his heels.

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Was his name Beppo, by any chance?

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Beppo? Yes!

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His second name, I never knew.

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Served me right for employing
a man with such a face.

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But he was a good workman,
one of the best.

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Do you happen to remember
exactly when he was arrested?

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I could check the pay list.

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According to Morse Hudson's records,

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you sold him six Napoleon's
on June the third of last year.

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Now, let me see. That is correct.

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And Beppo, last collected his wages
on May the twentieth of that same year.

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Then he must have been arrested
sometime the following week.

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Well, no doubt the police
have the exact details.

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The young Italian survived, so Beppo
only went to prison for one year.

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We have a cousin of
his work in here.

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Perhaps you would wish
to speak with him?

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No.

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Not a word to the cousin, I beg of you.
The matter is very important.

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And the further I go with it
the more important it seems.

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Ah so, yeah, I merely thought his cousin
might know when Beppo is to be released.

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Mendelstam,

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if my surmises are correct,

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our friend Beppo has been out
of jail for at least eleven days.

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Hey, Watson.

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Harker has baited the traps.

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What do you mean?

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The press is a very valuable
institution if one knows how to use it.

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Read all about it.

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Very cunning, Holmes.

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Thank you, Watson.

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Lestrade!

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Mr. Holmes. Doctor.

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Please sit down.

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Thank you.

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Well, uh...

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What luck, Mr. Holmes?

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We've had a very busy day.
Not entirely wasted.

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I can trace each of the busts
now from the beginning.

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The busts!

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Well of course, you have your
own methods, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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Not for me to say
a word against them,

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but I think I've done a
better day's work than you.

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I've identified the dead man.

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Splendid! Who is it?

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Pietro Venucci, son of a
respectable Italian tradesman

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and involved with a
secret political society.

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Red Anarchist?

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Oh you've been talking to
Morse Hudson, haven't you?

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Do go on, Lestrade.

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I refer, of course, to the Mafia,

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which, as you may know, enforces
its decrees by assassination.

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Obviously our murderer broke
the rules in some fashion

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and Pietro is put on his track.

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Possibly with that photograph
to aid identification,

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they meet but Pietro receives
his own death wound in the scuffle.

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Excellent, Lestrade, but
I don't-

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quite follow your explanation
of the destruction of the busts.

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Oh, the busts!

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You can never get those busts out
of your head. The busts are nothing.

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Petty larceny, six months
at most. No, no, no.

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It's murder we're really investigating.

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And I tell you,

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I'm gathering all the
threads into my hand.

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And the next stage?

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Awe well now,

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we have an inspector who's made a
specialty out of the Italian quarter.

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I shall go down there with him, find the
man in that photograph you're carrying,

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arrest him for murder.

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What do you say, Mr. Holmes?

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Will you come with us?

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I think not.

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I fancy Chiswick as the address
most likely to find him.

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Chiswick?

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If you and some of your men will
come with us to Chiswick tonight,

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I will go to the Italian
quarter with you tomorrow

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and there will be no
harm in the delay.

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I suggest you dine with us, and
then you're welcome to the sofa.

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A few hours sleep
will do us all good.

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I don't intend to leave
the house before eleven.

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It is unlikely that we shall
be home before morning.

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But Mr. Holmes...

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In the meantime,

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I have a letter to send
by Express Messenger.

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Mrs. Hudson? Mrs. Hudson?

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Chiswick?

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Eleven o'clock!
Gentlemen, on your feet.

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Come along, Lestrade.

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Watson, I think you've been
overgenerous with the port.

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You've been frugal enough
with your information.

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Ah that will be our four-wheeler.

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Don't forget the revolver,
Watson, and bring the rugs.

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This outing wouldn't be inspired
by your "id fixe", would it?

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"Idee fixe".

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Yes. The plaster bust.

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I have great hopes, Lestrade.

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In fact, I bet it's exactly two-to-one
that if you come with us tonight

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you'll have the murderer in
custody before the sun rises.

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I'm not a betting man, Mr. Holmes.

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Then you have nothing
to lose by it, do you?

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Except a good nights' sleep.

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Watson, if you've caught
a cold it's your fault.

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You left the rugs behind.

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Sorry, Holmes.

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Is that two o'clock?

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I don't suppose we can smoke, can we?

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Nope.

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Thought as much.

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Are your men in position?

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Oh, yes.

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Have a humbug, Lestrade?

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Watson,

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this is no time for humbugs.

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Look!

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Is that who you expected?

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His name's Beppo.

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Good name for a monkey.

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He'll leave by the back door.

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How do you know that?

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Because all the other doors are locked.

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Oh dear, it's smashed.

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Mr. Josiah Brown, I presume?

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Yes, sir. And you, no doubt,
are Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

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I had the note you sent
by the express messenger

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and I did exactly as you told me.

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Following your instructions,
we locked every door,

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so as to lead him into the back.

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And I'm very glad to
see you have the rascal.

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Now I hope, gentlemen, you will come
and partake in some refreshment.

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Thank you, Mr. Brown.
The hour is rather late.

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Good night.

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Oh, good night.

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Come, Watson, we have work to do.

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Work? What work?

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Lestrade, if you will come around to
Baker Street tonight at six o'clock

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I hope to be able to show you
that you still have not grasped

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the full meaning of this business.

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Oh, I think you'll find
my theory of the Mafia

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will work out all right, Mr. Holmes.

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Good night, Lestrade.

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Come along, now.

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Baker Street, please.

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And now, Watson,

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I commend to you the universal
answer to almost all the problems.

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What's that, Holmes?

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Sleep.

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Good morning, Watson.

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And since the manager
of Gelder & Company

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was mainly responsible for
Beppo's initial arrest,

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we see the breaking of the busts
as a pathetic attempt to revenge himself.

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And it was possibly the
senseless acts of violence,

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which transgressed the
Mafia's code of behavior

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and lead to the murder
of young Venucci.

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There, I think that takes care of
those details you mentioned last night.

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Don't you, Mr. Holmes?

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Holmes!

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Yes, Watson.

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Well, what do you think
of Lestrade's theories?

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I'm sure that they are of the
greatest interest but I regret to say

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I've not listened to a word of them.
Forgive my inattention, Lestrade,

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I had a rather late night.

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Look, what do you think I had?

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Come in.

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Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?

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I fear I am a little late
but the trains were very awkward.

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No matter, no matter.
Have you brought the item?

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Oh, these are my
friends and colleagues,

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Doctor Watson and Inspector
Lestrade of Scotland Yard.

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You may speak freely
in front of them.

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Gentlemen, you said in your telegram
that Mr. Hudson had given you my address.

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Mr. Sandeford of Reading.

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The same, sir. How do you do?

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It's those busts again.

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Correct, Lestrade.

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Did he also tell you just
how much my wife paid for it?

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No, he did not.

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Well sir, I am an honest man
and not a very rich one,

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and she only gave fifteen shillings for
it and I think you ought to know that

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before I take the ten pounds from you
that you offered in your telegraph.

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Oh your scruple does you much
honor, Mr. Sandeford,

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but I have stated my price
and I shall stick to it.

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Oh, thank you, Mr. Holmes, that's very
handsome of you. Your bust, sir.

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You know my wife has
always maintained,

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there is a marked resemblance
between myself and the Emperor.

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I can't say I see it myself.

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Sixth Napoleon.

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I contacted Mrs. Sandeford
by telegram this morning.

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Now,

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if you will sign this paper
in front of witnesses,

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it is simply to say that you
transferred every possible rights

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that you would ever
have in the bust to me.

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I'd be happy to, Mr. Holmes,
happy, happy, happy.

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I am and a methodical man
one never knows

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what turn of events my take afterwards.
Here is your ten-pound note, sir.

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Good evening, Mr. Sandeford.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Holmes.
It's good evening, gentlemen.

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Okey. And it's very, very kind
of you and thank you so much...

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Now gentlemen, if you will
give me your undivided attention.

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Gentlemen, allow me to
introduce you to one of-

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the most precious objects
in the world.

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The famous black pearl of the Borgias!

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Bravo, Holmes, bravo!

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Oh, your legerdemain
rivals that Maskelyne himself?

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This surpasses it.

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The Borgias pearl's been
missing since it disappeared

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from the Prince of Colonna's
bedroom in that Dacre Hotel,

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over a year ago.

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As you may remember, Lestrade, I was
consulted upon the case at the time.

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Observe and learn.

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The moment the name Venucci
surfaced to this case,

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I immediately became intrigued.

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The Princess of Colonna's maid, for
some time, had been one,

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Lucrezia Venucci.
Suspicion fell on her.

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And it was proved that she
had a brother in London

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but we failed to trace any
connection between them.

47:19.837 --> 47:22.296
Beppo was the connection.

47:22.506 --> 47:25.800
He had been courting Lucrezia Venucci

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for some time.

47:29.304 --> 47:30.555
Where did you get that?

47:31.974 --> 47:33.057
Papa Venucci.

47:33.851 --> 47:35.393
Oh, I see.

47:35.644 --> 47:39.730
When the Venucci family
planned to steal the black pearl,

47:40.566 --> 47:43.734
they used Beppo as a go between
for Lucrezia and her brother.

47:44.069 --> 47:47.405
Beppo gleaned enough information
to execute the robber himself

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and make off with the pearl.

47:49.658 --> 47:51.242
Pietro Venucci, the brother,

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caught up with him
outside Gelder's workshop,

47:54.204 --> 47:58.040
Beppo stabbed him he then
fled into the warehouse

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and took refuge in the drying room.

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He knew he only had moments
in which to conceal the pearl,

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which would otherwise be found
on him when he was searched.

48:07.217 --> 48:10.094
Among all the plaster
casts drying that day,

48:10.262 --> 48:12.054
he made for the batch of six

48:12.639 --> 48:14.724
that had been earmarked
for Morse Hudson

48:15.559 --> 48:18.853
and the base of one
of them was still soft.

48:28.155 --> 48:30.114
It was an admirable hiding place.

48:32.451 --> 48:34.118
As soon as Beppo got out of prison,

48:35.913 --> 48:38.873
he managed to find employment
with Mr. Morse Hudson,

48:39.082 --> 48:41.792
and set about tracking
the six Napoleons down.

48:42.336 --> 48:44.629
He found and destroyed
three of them.

48:45.464 --> 48:48.257
But the night he located Harker's,

48:48.634 --> 48:54.639
Pietro Venucci, intent on vengeance,
accosted him and this time

48:54.765 --> 48:57.391
Beppo slit his throat.

48:57.643 --> 49:01.812
With only two busts left, it was likely
he would try the London one first.

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Hence our visit to Chiswick.

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Exactly, Watson.

49:05.984 --> 49:08.486
That left only the Reading bust.

49:08.987 --> 49:10.988
I bought it in your
presence from the owner

49:12.824 --> 49:13.824
and there it lies.

49:19.081 --> 49:21.415
Well, Mr. Holmes.

49:27.381 --> 49:30.299
I've seen you handle a
good many cases in my time,

49:31.677 --> 49:35.346
but I don't know that I ever knew
a more workman-like one than this.

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We're not jealous of you,
you know, at Scotland Yard.

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No, sir, we're proud of you.

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If you come down tomorrow there's
not a man from the oldest inspector

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to the youngest constable

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who wouldn't be glad
to shake you by the hand.

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Thank you.

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Would you get down the Conk-Singleton
forgery case, please Watson?

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Goodbye, Lestrade.

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And if any little
problem comes your way,