1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Adventure number 8 in the return of Sherlock, Holmes by Sir, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Arthur Conan Doyle. This LibriVox recording is in 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,600 the public domain. Adventure 8, the adventure of 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:17,300 the six Napoleon's. It was no very unusual thing for 5 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:19,300 mr. Lestrade of Scotland Yard to 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,800 look in Upon Us of an evening. And his visits were welcome to 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,300 Sherlock Holmes. For they enabled him to keep in 8 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:29,100 touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters in 9 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:30,800 return. For the news which lestrade 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,200 would bring Holmes was always ready to listen with attention 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,900 to the details of any case upon which the detective was engaged 12 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:41,600 and was able occasionally without any active interference 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,800 to give some hint or suggestion drawn from his In vast knowledge 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,200 and experience on this particular evening lestrade, had 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,300 spoken of the weather, and the newspapers. 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Then he had fallen silent puffing thoughtfully at his 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,200 cigar Holmes, looked keenly at him. 18 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,100 Anything remarkable on hand. He asked. 19 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:05,000 Oh no, mr. Holmes. 20 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,800 Nothing. Very particular then tell me 21 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,700 about it. Lestrade laughed. 22 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:13,500 Well, mr. Holmes. 23 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:17,200 There's no use denying that there is something on my mind 24 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:21,400 and yet, it is such an absurd business, but I hesitated to 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,900 bother you about it on the other hand. 26 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,600 Although it is Trivial. It is undoubtedly, queer. 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,700 And I know that you have a taste for all that is out of the 28 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:35,300 common, but in my opinion, it comes more in. 29 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:42,500 Dr. Watson's line than ours disease said, I Madness anyhow, 30 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,300 and acquia Madness. To you wouldn't think there was 31 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:47,900 anyone living at this time of day. 32 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:49,600 It was such a hatred of Napoleon. 33 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,900 The first that he would break any image of him that he could 34 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:56,300 see. Holmes sank, back in his chair. 35 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,500 that's no business of mine said, he, Exactly. 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,100 That's what I said. But then when the man commits 37 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,100 burglary in order to break images, which are not his own 38 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:14,300 brings, it away from the doctor and onto the policeman Holmes, 39 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:16,900 sat up again. Burglary. 40 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:22,800 This is more interesting. Let me hear the details lestrade 41 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,600 took out his official notebook and refreshed his memory from 42 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,800 its pages. The first case reported was four 43 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,100 days ago said he it was a shop of Morse Hudson. 44 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,700 It was a place for the sale of pictures and statues in the 45 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:41,600 Kennington Road. The assistant had left the front 46 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,700 shot for an instant when he heard a crash and hurrying any 47 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:48,900 found, a plaster, bust of Napoleon, which stud with 48 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:52,700 several other works of art on the counter lying shivered into 49 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:56,200 fragments. He rushed out into the road, but 50 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,300 although several Passes by re Claire that they had noticed a 51 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:03,400 man run out of the shop. He could neither see anyone nor 52 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,400 could he find any means of identifying? 53 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,100 The Rascal it seemed to be one of those senseless acts of 54 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:12,700 hooliganism, which occur from time to time and it was reported 55 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:16,700 to the Constable on the beat as such, the plaster cast was not 56 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:19,800 worth more than a few Shillings and they all the fair appear to 57 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,700 be too childish for any particular investigation. 58 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:28,200 The second case, however, was more serious and also more 59 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,600 singular. It occurred only last night in 60 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,800 Kennington Road and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson 61 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,700 shop. Their lives, a well-known 62 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:40,300 medical practitioner named dr. Barnak. 63 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,900 Oh, who is one of the largest practices upon the south side of 64 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:49,000 the stems, his residence. And principal Consulting room is 65 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,300 at Kennington Road. But he has a branch surgery in 66 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:58,000 dispensary at lower Brixton. Road, two miles away, this dr. 67 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,500 Barnak are is an enthusiastic admirer of Napoleon. 68 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:05,300 And his house is full of books, pictures, and Relics of the 69 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:08,300 French Emperor. Some little time ago. 70 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,300 He purchased from Morse Hudson to duplicate plaster. 71 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:15,600 Casts of the famous Ed of Napoleon by the French sculptor 72 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,600 Devine. One of these he placed in his 73 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,000 all in the house at Kennington Road and the other on the 74 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,400 mantelpiece of the surgery at lower Brixton. 75 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:27,800 Well, when dr. Barnett got came down this 76 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,900 morning, he was astonished to find that his house had been 77 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:34,100 burgled during the night, but the nothing had been taken. 78 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,200 Say the plaster head from the hall. 79 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:40,000 It had been carried out and have been dashed savagely against the 80 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,600 Garden Wall under which it splintered fragments were 81 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,000 discovered. Holmes rubbed his hands. 82 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:52,500 This is certainly very novel. Said he I thought it would 83 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,900 please you but I've not got to the end yet. 84 00:04:56,500 --> 00:05:00,100 Dr. Barnak awaz do is surgery at 12 o'clock. 85 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:03,100 And you can imagine his amazement went on arriving 86 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:05,200 there. He found that the window had 87 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,300 been opened in the night and that the broken pieces of his 88 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:10,800 second bust was strewn all over the room. 89 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,800 It had been smashed to atoms where it stood. 90 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:17,600 In either case, were there any signs which could give us a clue 91 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,400 as to the criminal or lunatic who done the Mischief now? 92 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,000 Mr. Holmes. You've got the facts. 93 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,400 They are singular not to say grotesque said, Holmes. 94 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,800 May I ask whether the to bust smashed in? 95 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,600 Dr. Barnak its rooms, were the exact duplicates of the one, 96 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,300 which was destroyed in Morse Hudson's shop. 97 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:43,500 They were taken from the same mold. 98 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,300 Such a fact must tell against the theory that the man who 99 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:51,200 breaks them is influenced by any general, hatred of Napoleon, 100 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:54,900 considering how many hundreds of statues of the great emperor 101 00:05:54,900 --> 00:05:58,500 must exist in London. It is too much to suppose such a 102 00:05:58,508 --> 00:06:02,300 coincidence as that a promiscuous iconoclast, should 103 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:05,800 chance to begin upon three specimens of the same bust. 104 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:13,000 Well, I thought as you do, said lestrade on the other end, this 105 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,100 Morse Hudson is a purveyor of busts in that part of London. 106 00:06:17,700 --> 00:06:20,400 And these three were the only ones which have been in his shop 107 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,100 for years. So although as you say, there 108 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:26,500 are many hundreds of statues in London. 109 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:30,600 It is very probable that these three were the only ones in that 110 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:35,100 District, therefore a local fanatic would begin with them. 111 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,100 What do you think? Dr. Watson? 112 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,200 There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania. 113 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,300 I answered. There is the condition which the 114 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:48,800 modern French psychologist of called the idee fixe, which may 115 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,600 be trifling in character. And the company had my complete 116 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,400 sanity in every other way. A man, who'd read deeply about 117 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,700 Napoleon or who had possibly received some hereditary family 118 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:03,500 injury through the Great War. Might conceivably form such an 119 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:08,100 idée fixe and under Influence. Be capable of any fantastic 120 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:11,300 outrage. That won't do. 121 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:15,800 My dear Watson said, Holmes shaking his head for no amount 122 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,900 of idee fixe would enable your interesting monomaniac to find 123 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:23,400 out where these busts were situated. 124 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:29,800 Well, how do you explain it? I don't attempt to do so, I 125 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,300 would only observe that there is a certain method in the 126 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:34,400 gentleman's eccentric, proceedings. 127 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,500 For example in dr. Barnak arts hall where a sound 128 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:42,900 might arouse the family. The bust was taken outside 129 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,700 before being broken. Whereas in the surgery where 130 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:48,500 there are less danger of an alarm. 131 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,500 It was smashed where it stood. The affair seems absurdly 132 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:55,700 trifling and yet I dare call nothing trivial. 133 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:59,300 When I reflect that. Some of my most classic cases 134 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:01,900 have had the least promising commencement. 135 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:06,000 You will remember Watson how the Dreadful business of the a 136 00:08:06,008 --> 00:08:09,700 bonetti family was first brought to my notice by the depth to 137 00:08:09,707 --> 00:08:13,000 which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day. 138 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:18,800 And I cannot afford therefore to smile at your three, broken 139 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,700 busts lestrade and I shall be very much obliged to you. 140 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,600 If you will. Let me hear of any fresh 141 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,600 developments of so singular a chain of events. 142 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:31,900 The development for which my friend had asked came in a 143 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:35,200 quicker and an infinitely more tragic form than he could have 144 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,299 imagined. I was still dressing in my 145 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:39,700 bedroom. Next morning. 146 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,400 When there was a tap at the door and Holmes entered a telegram in 147 00:08:44,408 --> 00:08:46,800 his hand. He read it aloud. 148 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,800 Come instantly 131 Pitt Street, Kensington lestrade. 149 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:57,600 What is it? Then I asked don't know. 150 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,700 Maybe anything, but I suspect it is. 151 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,400 The sequel of the story of the statues. 152 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:07,500 In that case, our friend, the image breaker has begun 153 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:09,800 operations in another quarter of London. 154 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:13,500 There's coffee on the table Watson and I have a cab at the 155 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:16,400 door in. Half an hour. 156 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,600 We had reached Pitt Street a quiet little Backwater just 157 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,000 beside one of the riskiest currents of London. 158 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,800 Life number 131, was one of a row all flat-chested respect. 159 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,100 All and most unromantic dwellings as we drove up. 160 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:36,100 We found the railings in front of the house lined by a curious 161 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:40,200 crowd Holmes, whistled by George. 162 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,700 It's attempted murder at the least. 163 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,700 Nothing less will hold the London message, boy, there's a 164 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:50,300 deed of violence indicated in that fellow's round, shoulders. 165 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:53,600 And outstretched neck. What's this Watson? 166 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:57,600 The top steps swill down in the other ones dry. 167 00:09:58,300 --> 00:10:01,900 Footsteps enough. Anyhow, well, well there's 168 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:06,000 lestrade at the front window and we shall soon know all about it. 169 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,700 The official received us with a very grave face and showed us 170 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:14,100 into a sitting room where an exceedingly, unkempt? 171 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:18,900 And agitated elderly, man, clad in a flannel dressing gown was 172 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:22,600 pacing up and down. He was introduced to us as the 173 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,100 owner of the house. Mr. Horace, Harker of the 174 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:31,200 central press syndicate. It's a Napoleon busts business. 175 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,500 Again said lestrade you seem interested. 176 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:35,900 Last night. Mr. Holmes. 177 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:39,100 So I thought perhaps you would be glad to be present. 178 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,600 Now that the affair has taken a very much Graver turn. 179 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,200 What has it turned to then. To murder. 180 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,400 Mr. ARCA, will you tell these gentlemen, exactly what has 181 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,700 occurred? The man in the dressing gown 182 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:57,900 turned upon us with a most Melancholy face. 183 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,400 It's an extraordinary thing said he, but all my life. 184 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,900 I've been collecting other people's news. 185 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:09,200 And now that a real piece of news has come my own way. 186 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,300 I am so confused and bothered that I can't put two words 187 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:16,600 together if I'd come in here as a journalist. 188 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,500 I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every 189 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:24,100 evening paper. As it is, I'm giving away 190 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:27,800 valuable copy by telling my story over and over to a string 191 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,900 of different people and I can make no use of it myself. 192 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,400 However, I've heard your name, mr. 193 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,400 Sherlock Holmes. And if you'll only explain this 194 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,500 queer business, and I shall be paid for my trouble in telling 195 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:46,800 you, the story. Holmes sat down and listened, it 196 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,600 all seems to center around that bust of Napoleon, which I bought 197 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,300 for This Very Room about four months ago. 198 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,800 I picked it up cheap from Harding Brothers, two doors from 199 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,500 The High Street Station. A great deal of my journalistic. 200 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:05,000 Work is done at night and I often write until the early 201 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,600 morning. So it was today. 202 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:11,500 I was sitting in my Den which is at the back of the top of the 203 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:15,400 house about 3:00. Talk when I was convinced that I 204 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:20,000 heard some sounds down stairs, I listened, but they were not 205 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,300 repeated and I concluded that they came from outside then 206 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:26,800 suddenly about five minutes later. 207 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,800 They came a most horrible. Yell the most Dreadful sound. 208 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,400 Mr. Holmes that ever, I heard it will ring in my ears. 209 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,400 As long as I live. I sat Frozen with horror for a 210 00:12:38,408 --> 00:12:41,300 minute or two. Then I seized the poker and went 211 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:47,300 downstairs when I Had this room. I found the window wide open and 212 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:51,400 I at once observed that the bust was gone from the mantelpiece. 213 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,200 Why? Any burglar should take such a 214 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,900 thing passes? My understanding for it was only 215 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,200 a plaster cast and of the no real value, whatever. 216 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:05,900 You can see for yourself that anyone going out through that 217 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:09,700 open window could reach the front doorstep by taking a long 218 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:12,700 stride. This was clearly what? 219 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:16,300 The burglar had done. So I went round and opened the 220 00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:21,000 door stepping out into the dark. I nearly fell over a dead man 221 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 who was lying there. I ran back for a light and there 222 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,800 was a poor fellow a great gash in his throat and the whole 223 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,400 place swimming in blood he lay on his back. 224 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:36,700 With his knees drawn up and his mouth horribly open. 225 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,300 I shall see him in my dreams. I had just time to blow on my 226 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:44,100 police whistle. And then I must have fainted 227 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:45,200 for. I knew nothing more. 228 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,400 Until I found the policeman standing over me in the hall. 229 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:53,600 Well, who was the mud man asked Holmes? 230 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:59,000 There's nothing to show who he was said, lestrade You shall see 231 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,300 the body at the mortuary, but we've made nothing of it up to 232 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:06,600 now he is a tall man. Sam burn very powerful. 233 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,200 Not more than three. He's poorly dressed and yet does 234 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:15,400 not appear to be a laborer, a horn handle clasp-knife was 235 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,200 lying in a pool of blood beside him, whether it was The weapon 236 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,500 which did the deed and whether it belonged to the dead man, I 237 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:25,000 do not know. There was no name on his 238 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,200 clothing and nothing in his pockets over an apple. 239 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:33,700 Some string, a shilling map of London and a photograph here. 240 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:37,200 It is. It was evidently taken by a 241 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,300 snapshot from a small camera. It represented an alert sharp 242 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:46,300 featured Simeon, man with thick eyebrows and a very peculiar 243 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:48,600 projection of the lower part of the face. 244 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:54,000 Like the muzzle of a baboon. And what became of the bust and 245 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,100 asked Holmes. After a careful study of this 246 00:14:56,100 --> 00:15:01,200 picture, we add news of it. Just before you came is been 247 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,500 found in the front garden of an empty house in Camden House 248 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:07,600 Road. It was broken into fragments. 249 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:12,700 I'm going around now to see it. Will you come certainly? 250 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:15,500 I must just take one look around. 251 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:18,800 He examined the carpet and the window. 252 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,000 Fellow had either very long legs or was a most active man said he 253 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,600 with an area beneath. It was no mean feat to reach 254 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,700 that window ledge and open that window getting back was 255 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:34,900 comparatively simple. Are you coming with us to see 256 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:36,900 the remains of your bust? Mr. Harker? 257 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,500 The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing 258 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:44,900 table. I must try and make something of 259 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:49,400 it said he though I have no doubt that the first editions of 260 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,800 the evening papers are out already with full details. 261 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,500 It's like my luck. You remember, when the stand 262 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:59,600 felid Doncaster? Well, I was the only journalist 263 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,500 in the stand and my journal. The only one that had no account 264 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:07,100 of it for. I was too shaken to write it and 265 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:11,000 now I'll be too late with a murder done on my own doorstep. 266 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,700 As we left the room, we heard His Pain traveling shrilly over 267 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:19,300 the foolscap. The spot where the fragments of 268 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:23,300 the bust had been found was only a few hundred yards away for the 269 00:16:23,308 --> 00:16:25,600 first time. Our eyes rested upon this 270 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,200 presentiment of the great emperor, which seemed to raise 271 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,300 such frantic and destructive hatred in the mind of the 272 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:35,600 unknown. It lay scattered in splintered 273 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,700 shards upon the grass, Holmes picked up several of them and 274 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:43,600 examined them carefully. I was convinced from his intent 275 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,600 face and is purposeful manner that at last he was upon her. 276 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:52,400 Lou. Well asked lestrade Holmes 277 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,100 Shrugged his shoulders. We have a long way to go yet, 278 00:16:56,300 --> 00:17:03,600 said he and yet and yet well, we have some suggestive facts to 279 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,000 act upon the possession of this trifling. 280 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,500 Bust was worth more in the eyes of this strange criminal and a 281 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:14,599 human life. That is one point. 282 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:17,500 Then there is a singular fact that he did not break. 283 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:20,599 It in the house or immediately outside the house. 284 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:23,000 If to break it was his soul object. 285 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:27,700 He was rattled and bustled by meeting this other fellow. 286 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,600 You hardly knew what he was doing. 287 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:33,600 Well, that's likely enough. But I wish to call your 288 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,500 attention, very particularly to the position of this house in 289 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:40,700 the garden of which the bust was destroyed. 290 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,800 Lestrade looked about him. He was an empty house. 291 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,200 And so he knew that he would not be disturbed in the garden. 292 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:53,800 Yes, but there is another empty house, farther up the street, 293 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,400 which he must have passed before he came to this one. 294 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,900 Why did he not break it there? Since it is evident that every 295 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:03,800 yard that he carried it. Increased the risk of someone 296 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,500 meeting him. Our give it up said, lestrade 297 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:11,000 Holmes pointed to the Street Lamp above our heads. 298 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,500 He could see what he was doing here and he could not there. 299 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,000 That was his reason. By jove, that's true, said the 300 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,600 detective now that I come to think of it. 301 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,900 Dr. Barney Cuts bust was broken. Not far from his red lamp. 302 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:31,800 Well, mr. Holmes. 303 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,100 What are we to do with that fact? 304 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:38,900 To remember it to dock it. It we may come upon something 305 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:42,400 later, which will bear upon it. What steps do you propose to 306 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,700 take now lestrade? The most practical way of 307 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:49,900 getting at it. In my opinion is to identify the 308 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:54,400 dead man, there should be no difficulty about that when we 309 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,000 found out who he is, and who his associates are, we should have a 310 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 good start in learning, what he was doing in Pitt Street last 311 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 night and who it was? Who met him and killed him on 312 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,400 the doorstep of mr. Horace Harker, don't you think 313 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,100 so? No doubt and yet it is not quite 314 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:13,400 the way in which I should approach the case. 315 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:17,300 What would you do then? Oh, you must not. 316 00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:21,400 Let me influence you in any way. I suggest that you go on your 317 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,800 line and I on mine, we can compare notes afterwards. 318 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:27,800 And each will supplement the other. 319 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:33,700 Very good said lestrade, if you are going back to Pitt Street. 320 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:36,700 You might see. Mr. Horace Harker, tell him from 321 00:19:36,700 --> 00:19:40,000 me that I have quite made up my mind and that it is certain that 322 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,300 a dangerous homicidal lunatic. With a Napoleonic delusions was 323 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:47,500 in his house last night. It will be useful for his 324 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:53,300 article lestrade stared. You don't seriously believe that 325 00:19:54,200 --> 00:20:00,200 Holmes smiled, don't I, well perhaps I don't but I'm sure 326 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,900 that it will interest. Mr. Horace Harker, and the 327 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:05,400 subscribers of the central press Syndicate. 328 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:09,500 Now Watson, I think that we shall find that we have a long 329 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:12,000 and rather complex day's work before us. 330 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:15,700 I should be glad lestrade. If you could make it convenient 331 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:20,600 to meet us at Baker Street at 6:00 this evening until then I 332 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,400 should like to keep this Photograph found in the Dead 333 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:24,400 Man's. Get. 334 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,800 It is possible that I may have to ask your company and 335 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,700 assistance upon a small Expedition, which will have be 336 00:20:30,708 --> 00:20:33,900 undertaken to night. If my chain of reasoning, should 337 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:38,500 prove to be correct, until then. Goodbye and good luck. 338 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,700 Sherlock, Holmes, and I walk together to the High Street 339 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:45,900 where we stopped the shop of Harding Brothers, whence, the 340 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:50,400 bust had been purchased a young assistant, informed us, that mr. 341 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,500 Harding would be absent until afternoon and that he was 342 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:57,900 himself a newcomer who could give us no information Holmes's 343 00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:00,800 face showed his disappointment and annoyance. 344 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:05,600 Well, well, we can't expect to have it all our own way Watson. 345 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,400 He said, at last we must come back in the afternoon. 346 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:11,800 If mr. Harding will not be here until 347 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,300 then. I am as you have, no doubt 348 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:18,800 surmised endeavouring to trace these busts to their Source in 349 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:20,500 order to find. If there is not something 350 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:23,700 peculiar, which may account for their remarkable fate. 351 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:27,500 Let us make for mr. Morse, Hudson of the Kennington 352 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,700 Road and see if he can throw any light upon the problem. 353 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:34,400 A drive of an hour. Brought us to the picture 354 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,000 dealers establishment. He was a small Stout man with a 355 00:21:38,008 --> 00:21:42,300 red face and a peppery manner. Yes, sir, or more? 356 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:46,900 Very counter sir said he what we pay rates and taxes for, I don't 357 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:50,100 know when any Ruffian can come in and break ones Goods. 358 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:51,800 Yes, sir. It was. 359 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:54,500 I Who Sold? Dr. Barnak 'it is two statues. 360 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:57,900 Disgraceful, sir a nihilist plot. 361 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:01,100 That's what I make it. No one but an anarchist could go 362 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:04,300 about Making statues. Red Republicans. 363 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:07,300 That's what I call him. Who did I get the statues from? 364 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,700 I don't see what that's Got to Do With It. 365 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:13,100 Well, if you really want to know, I got them from Gilder and 366 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:15,700 Company in Church, Street Stepney. 367 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,000 They're well-known house in the trade and have been this 20 368 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,700 years. How many had I 3 2? 369 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:24,700 And 1 or 3 to have dr. Barnak? 370 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:27,900 'It's and one smashed in broad daylight on my own counter. 371 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:31,700 Do I know that photograph? No, I Don't. 372 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,300 Yes, I do though why it's better Poe. 373 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:38,900 He was a kind of Italian piecework, man who made himself 374 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:42,000 useful in the shop. You could carve a bit and Guild 375 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,000 and frame and do odd jobs. The fellow left me last week and 376 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,800 I've heard nothing of him since no, I don't know where he came 377 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,800 from nor where he went to. I had nothing against him. 378 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,700 While he was here. He was gone. 379 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:56,700 Two days before the bust was smashed. 380 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,800 Well, that's all we could reasonably expect from Morse 381 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,100 Hudson. Said, Holmes as we emerge from 382 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:06,000 the shop. We have this Beppo as a common 383 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,200 factor both in Kennington and in Kensington, so that is worth a 384 00:23:11,208 --> 00:23:13,300 10 mile drive. Now. 385 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:17,500 Watson, let us make the gelder and Company of Stepney, the 386 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:21,400 source and origin of the busts. I shall be surprised if we don't 387 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,000 get some help down there. In Rapid succession, we pass 388 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,400 through the Fringe of fashionable. 389 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,500 London Hotel London. See a trickle London literary, 390 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:36,300 London, commercial London. And finally Maritime London, to 391 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:40,500 we came to a Riverside City of a hundred thousand Souls where the 392 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:44,300 tenement houses swelter and reeked with the outcasts of 393 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:47,300 Europe here in a broad thoroughfare. 394 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:50,200 Once the Abode of wealthy City Merchants. 395 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:53,400 We found the sculpture works for which we searched. 396 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:57,200 Outside was a considerable yard full of monumental. 397 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:02,700 Masonry inside was a large room in which 50 workers were carving 398 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:08,300 or molding the manager, a big blond German received a civilly 399 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:12,500 and gave a clear answer to all homes is questions a reference 400 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:15,200 to his books. Showed that hundreds of caste 401 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,300 have been taken from a marble Copy of davines Head of 402 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,600 Napoleon, but that the three which have been sent to Morse 403 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,900 Hudson a year or so before. Had been half of a batch of six, 404 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:30,700 the other three being sent to Harding Brothers of Kensington. 405 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,300 There was no reason why those six should be different from any 406 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:38,500 of the other castes. He could suggest no possible. 407 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:41,100 Cause why anyone should wish to destroy them? 408 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:46,600 In fact, he laughed at the idea. Their wholesale price was six 409 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,500 shillings, but the retailer would get 12 or more. 410 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:53,400 The cast was taken into molds from each side of the face. 411 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,100 And then these two profiles of plaster of Paris, would join 412 00:24:57,100 --> 00:24:59,100 together to make the complete bust. 413 00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:03,300 The work was usually done by Italians in the room. 414 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:07,600 We were in when finished the busts were put on a table in the 415 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:12,500 passage to dry and afterwards, stored that was all he could 416 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,500 tell us. But the production of the 417 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:19,100 photograph had a remarkable effect upon the manager, his 418 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:21,900 face flushed with anger and his brows. 419 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:27,100 Not it over his blue. Teutonic eyes has a rascal he 420 00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:28,800 cried. Yes, indeed. 421 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,200 I know him very well. This has been also a respectable 422 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,600 establishment and the only times that we have ever had. 423 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,500 The police in it was overseas, very fellow. 424 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,000 It was more than a year ago. Now he knifed another Italian in 425 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,800 the street. Then he came to the works with 426 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,000 the police on his heels. And he was taken here. 427 00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:52,400 Beppo was his name. His second name. 428 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,100 I never knew serves me, right? For engaging, a man with such a 429 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,800 face, but he was a good Workman. One of the best. 430 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,900 What did he get? The man lived. 431 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:06,800 And he got off with the year. I have no doubt. 432 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,600 He's out now, but he's not there to show his nose. 433 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,900 Here. We have a cousin of his here. 434 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:13,900 And I daresay. He could tell you where he is. 435 00:26:13,900 --> 00:26:17,300 He is no. No cried Holmes. 436 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:20,700 Not a word to the cousin. Not a word, I beg of you. 437 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,700 The matter is very important and the father I go with it. 438 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:29,400 The more important. It seems to grow when you 439 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,400 referred in your ledger to the sale of those. 440 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,300 Casts. I observe that the date was June 441 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:37,400 3rd of last year. Could you give me the date? 442 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,400 When Beppo was arrested? I could tell you roughly by zap. 443 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,200 A least the manager answered. Yes. 444 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,000 He continued after some turning over of the pages. 445 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:53,200 He was paid last on May 20th. Thank you said Holmes. 446 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:56,400 I don't think that I need intrude upon your time and 447 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,300 patience anymore with a last word of caution that he should 448 00:27:00,300 --> 00:27:02,200 say nothing. As to our researches. 449 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:07,600 We turned our faces Westward. Once more, the afternoon was Far 450 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,700 Advanced before we were able to snatch a hasty luncheon. 451 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:13,900 At a restaurant. A news bill at the entrance 452 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:18,600 announced Kensington outrage, Murder by a madman and the 453 00:27:18,608 --> 00:27:20,500 contents of the paper showed that mr. 454 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:23,400 Horace Harker. Had got his accounted of print 455 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,000 after all two columns were occupied with a highly 456 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,600 Sensational and Flowery rendering of the whole incident 457 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:34,600 homes, propped against the cruet stand and read it while he ate 458 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,400 once. Or twice. 459 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,800 He chuckled, this is all right. Watson said he listen to this. 460 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:46,800 It is satisfactory to know that they can be no difference of 461 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:51,200 opinion upon this case since mr. Lestrade one of the most 462 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,600 experienced members of the official force and mr. 463 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,700 Sherlock Holmes, The well-known Consulting expert have each come 464 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:02,000 to the conclusion that the grotesque series of incidents, 465 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,400 which have ended in. So, tragic a fashion arise from 466 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,200 lunacy rather than from deliberate crime. 467 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:10,800 No explanation. Save mental. 468 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:16,000 Aberration can cover the facts. The Press Watson is a most 469 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,800 valuable institution if you only know how to use it. 470 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,100 And now, if you have quite finished, we will hark back to 471 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:27,400 Kensington and see what the manager of Harding Brothers. 472 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,400 Has to say, on the matter. The founder of that great 473 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,700 Emporium proved to be a Brisk. Crisp little person. 474 00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:38,500 Very Dapper and quick with a clear head and a ready tongue. 475 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,500 Yes, sir. I have already read the account 476 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:44,600 in the evening papers. Mr. Horace Harker is a customer 477 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,000 of ours. We supplied him with the bust. 478 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,900 Some months ago. We ordered three busts of that 479 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,500 sword from gelderland company of Stepney. 480 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:58,100 They're all sold now to whom. Oh my dear Say by Consulting our 481 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:00,400 sales book we could Easily. Tell you. 482 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,100 Yes, we have the entries here, 12. 483 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:06,600 Mr. Harker. You see and want to mr. 484 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,300 Josiah, Brown of Laburnum Lodge. Laburnum Veil, chizik and 12. 485 00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:13,900 Mr. Sandiford of lower Grove Road Reading. 486 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,600 Now. I have never seen this face, 487 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,200 which you show me in the photograph. 488 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:20,600 You would hardly forget it. Would you sir? 489 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:24,500 For I've seldom seen an uglier. Have we any Italians on the 490 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:26,100 staff? Yes, sir. 491 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,900 We have several among our work people and the cleaners. 492 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,300 I daresay they might get a peep at that sales book, if they 493 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:36,300 wanted to there is no particular reason for keeping a watch upon 494 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:37,900 that book. Well. 495 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,100 Well, it's a very strange business and I hope that you 496 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:42,600 will. Let me know if anything comes of 497 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,800 your inquiries. Holmes, it taken several notes 498 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,500 during mr. Harding's evidence. 499 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:52,100 And I could see that he was thoroughly Satisfied by the turn 500 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:55,400 which Affairs were taking, he made no remark. 501 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,000 However, say that, unless we hurried, we should be late for 502 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,400 our appointment with the strawed sure, enough. 503 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:05,800 When we reached Baker Street, the detective was already there 504 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:10,100 and we found him pacing up and down in a fever of impatience. 505 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,700 This look of importance showed that his days work had not been 506 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:18,300 in vain. Well, he asked what luck. 507 00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:22,700 Mr. Holmes. We had a very busy day and not 508 00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:25,700 entirely a wasted one. My friend explained. 509 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:30,100 We have seen both the retailers and also the wholesale 510 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:34,000 manufacturers, I can trace each of the busts now from the 511 00:30:34,008 --> 00:30:37,800 beginning. The busts cried lestrade. 512 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,800 Well, well, you have your own methods, mr. 513 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,400 Sherlock Holmes. And it's not for me to say a 514 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,500 word against them. But I think I've done a better 515 00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:51,000 days work than you. I have identified the dead man. 516 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,700 You don't say so and found a cause for the crime Splendid. 517 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,800 We have an inspector who makes a specialty of saffron Hill and 518 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,300 the Italian quarter. Well, this dead man. 519 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:09,900 At some Catholic emblem, round his neck and that along with his 520 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:14,300 color made me think he was from the south inspector ill. 521 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:16,100 Knew him, the moment. He caught sight of him. 522 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:20,200 His name is Pietro venucci from Naples. 523 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:22,800 And he's one of the greatest Cutthroats in London. 524 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,100 He is connected with the mafia, which is, you know, is a secret 525 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:31,000 political Society enforcing its decrees by murder. 526 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,000 Now, you see how the affair begins to clear up. 527 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:40,800 The other fellow is probably an Italian also and a member of the 528 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,500 mafia. He's broken the rules in some 529 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:47,800 fashion. Pietro is set upon his track. 530 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,000 Probably the photograph, we found in his pocket is the man 531 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,300 himself so that he may not knife the wrong person. 532 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,100 A dog's the fella. He sees him, enter our house. 533 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,200 He waits outside for him and in the scuffle, he receives his own 534 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,000 death wound. How's that? 535 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,500 Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Holmes clapped his hands 536 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,700 approvingly. Excellent lestrade. 537 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,400 Excellent. He cried but I didn't quite 538 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,700 follow your Mission of the destruction of the busts, the 539 00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:21,600 busts. You never can get those busts 540 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,700 out of your head after all. That's nothing. 541 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,300 Petty larceny. Six months at the most, is the 542 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:31,400 murder that we're really investigating and I tell you 543 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,000 that I'm gathering all the threads into my hands. 544 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,200 And the next stage is a very simple. 545 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,700 One. I shall go down with eel to the 546 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:43,400 Italian quarter, find the man whose photograph. 547 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,300 We've got an arrest him on the Charge of murder. 548 00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:50,300 Will you come with us? I think not. 549 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:53,600 Now, I fancy we can attain our end in a simpler way. 550 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:57,000 I can't say for certain because it all depends. 551 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,700 Well, it all depends upon a factor which is completely 552 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:04,300 outside our control, but I have Great Hopes. 553 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:08,700 In fact, the betting is exactly two to one that if you will come 554 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:11,400 with us tonight. I shall be able to help you to 555 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:17,600 lay him by the heels. In the Italian core know I fancy 556 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,600 chizik is an address, which is more likely to find him. 557 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,300 If you will come with me to chizik tonight lestrade. 558 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,000 I'll promise to go to the Italian quarter with you 559 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,100 tomorrow and no harm will be done by the delay. 560 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:34,700 And now I think that a few hours sleep would do us all good for I 561 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:38,900 do not propose to leave before 11:00 and it is unlikely that we 562 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:43,200 shall be back before morning. You'll dine with us lestrade and 563 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,600 then you're welcome to the sofa until it's time for us to start. 564 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:50,300 In the meantime Watson. I should be glad if you would 565 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:54,600 ring for an Express messenger. For I have a letter to send and 566 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,100 it is important that it should go at once. 567 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:01,600 Home, spend the evening in rummaging among the files of the 568 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,900 old daily papers with which one of our lumber rooms was packed. 569 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:10,699 When at last he descended it was with Triumph in his eyes, but he 570 00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:14,000 said nothing to either of us as to the result of his researches, 571 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,900 for my own part. I had followed step by step the 572 00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:21,100 methods by which he had traced to various windings of this 573 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:25,500 complex case and though I could not yet perceive the goal, which 574 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:30,000 we would reach I Stood clearly that Holmes expected, this 575 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,600 grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two remaining 576 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,100 busts. One of which I remembered was at 577 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,199 chizik. No doubt. 578 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,000 The object of our journey was to catch him in the very act and I 579 00:34:43,007 --> 00:34:44,800 could not. But admire, the cunning with 580 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,800 which my friend had inserted a wrong clue in the evening paper. 581 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,100 So as to give the fellow, the idea that he could continue his 582 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:56,800 scheme with impunity. I was not surprised when home 583 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,400 suggested that I should take my revolver with me. 584 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:03,200 He had himself, picked up, the loaded hunting crop, which was 585 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,000 his favorite weapon. A four-wheeler was at the door 586 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,600 at 11:00 and in it, we drove to a spot at the other side of 587 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,400 Hammersmith Bridge here. The cabmen was directed to wait 588 00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:18,000 a short walk. Brought us to a secluded Road 589 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,300 fringed with Pleasant houses. Each standing in its own 590 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:24,200 grounds, in the light of a Street Lamp. 591 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,000 We read Laburnum Villa upon the gatepost of one of them. 592 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,800 The occupants had evidently retired to rest for all was dark 593 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:34,900 safe for a fan light, over the hall door. 594 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,100 Which shed a little single blurred Circle onto the Garden 595 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,200 Path. The wooden fence which separated 596 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,400 the grounds from the road through a dense, black shadow 597 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,200 upon that inner side. And here it was that we 598 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,400 crouched. I fear that you'll have a long. 599 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,300 Wait Holmes whispered. We may thank Our Stars at it is 600 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:56,800 not raining. I don't think we can even 601 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,900 venture to smoke to pass the time. 602 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,700 However, it's a two to one chance that we get something to 603 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:07,200 pay us for our trouble. It's proved. 604 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,600 However that our vigil was not to be so long as Holmes had led 605 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,500 us to fear and it ended in a very sudden and singular 606 00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:18,300 fashion. In an instant without the least 607 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:22,600 sound to warn us of his coming, the garden gate, swung open and 608 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,900 allies, dark figure, as Swift and active, as an ape rushed up 609 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:30,100 the Garden Path. We saw it whisk past the light 610 00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:33,200 thrown from over the door and disappear against the black 611 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,700 shadow of the house. There was a long, pause during 612 00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:40,800 which we held our breath. And then a very gentle creaking 613 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:46,700 sound came to our ears. The window was being opened the 614 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:49,000 noise ceased. And again, there was a long 615 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,600 silence. The fellow was making his way 616 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,800 into the house. We saw the sudden flash of a 617 00:36:54,808 --> 00:36:59,000 dart Lantern inside the room. What he sought was evidently not 618 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,500 there. For again. 619 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:03,500 We saw the flash through another blind and then through another 620 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,600 Let us go to the open window will NAB him as he climbs out 621 00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:12,600 Astrid whispered. But before we could move the man 622 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,300 had emerged again as he came out into the glimmering patch of 623 00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:17,700 light. We saw that. 624 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:20,000 He carried something white under his arm. 625 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,800 He looked stealthily all around him. 626 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:27,400 The Silence of the deserted Street, reassured him turning 627 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,700 his back upon us. He laid down his burden and the 628 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:33,100 next instant. There was the sound of a Sharp 629 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:35,900 tap followed by a Platter and rattle. 630 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:40,400 The man was so intent upon what he was doing, but he never heard 631 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,600 our steps as we stole across the grass. 632 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,800 Plot with the bound of a tiger, Holmes was on his back and an 633 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,500 instant later. The strata and I had him by the 634 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,900 wrist and the hand cuffs had been fastened. 635 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,200 As we turned him over. I saw a hideous sallow face with 636 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,900 writhing Furious features glaring up at us. 637 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,000 And I knew that it was indeed the man of the photograph whom 638 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,100 we had secured but it was not our prisoner to whom Holmes was 639 00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:11,300 giving his attention squatted on the doorstep. 640 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,400 He was engaged in most carefully examining that, which the man 641 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,400 had brought from the house. It was a bust of Napoleon. 642 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:23,100 Like the one which we had seen that morning and I've been 643 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:27,600 broken too similar. Fragments carefully Holmes, held 644 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,400 each separate Shard to the light, but in no way did it 645 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,900 differ from any other shattered piece of plaster? 646 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:37,900 He had just completed his examination when the whole 647 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:41,400 lights flew up the door opened and the owner of the house. 648 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:44,600 A jovial rotund figure in shirt and trousers. 649 00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:48,900 Presented himself. Mr. Josiah Brown. 650 00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,800 I suppose said Holmes. Yes, sir. 651 00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:53,700 And you no doubt. Ah, mr. 652 00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:56,900 Sherlock Holmes. I had the note which you sent by 653 00:38:56,900 --> 00:39:00,700 the express messenger and I did exactly what you told me. 654 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,200 We looked every door on the inside and awaited developments. 655 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,100 Well, I'm very glad to see that you've got the Rascal. 656 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,300 I hope gentleman that you'll come in and have some 657 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:15,000 refreshment. However, lestrade was anxious to 658 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,100 get his man into safe quarters. So within a few minutes, our cab 659 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:22,700 had been summoned and we were all for upon our way to London. 660 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:25,800 Not a word, would our captive say? 661 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,800 But he glared at us from the shadow of his matted hair. 662 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,200 And once when my hand seemed within his reach he snapped at 663 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,900 it like a Hungry Wolf. We stayed long enough at the 664 00:39:36,908 --> 00:39:39,800 police station to learn that. A search of his clothing 665 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,100 revealed. Nothing save a few Shillings and 666 00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:46,100 along sheath-knife, the handle of which bore copious traces of 667 00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:50,200 recent blood. That's all right, said lestrade 668 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,300 as we parted, he'll knows all these Gentry and will give a 669 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:56,700 name to him. You'll find that my theory of 670 00:39:56,700 --> 00:40:00,300 the mafia will work out. All right, but I'm sure I'm 671 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:03,800 exceedingly obliged to you. Mr. Holmes for the Workman like 672 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,000 way in which you've Laid hands upon him. 673 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,300 I don't quite understand it all yet. 674 00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:12,800 I fear it is rather too late an hour for explanations said 675 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,900 Holmes besides, there are one or two details which are not 676 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:20,800 finished off and it is one of those cases which are worth 677 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,700 working out to the very end. If you will come around. 678 00:40:24,700 --> 00:40:27,900 Once more to my rooms at 6:00 tomorrow. 679 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,700 I think I shall be able to show you that even now you have not 680 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:35,400 grasped the entire meaning of this business which presents 681 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,000 some features which make it absolutely original in. 682 00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:43,300 History of crime. If Ever, I permit you to 683 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:47,900 Chronicle anymore of my little problems Watson, I foresee that 684 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:50,900 you will enliven your pages by an account of the single 685 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:53,600 adventure of the Napoleonic busts. 686 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,200 When we met again next evening, the strad was furnished with 687 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,800 much information concerning our prisoner, his name. 688 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,300 It appeared was Beppo, second name unknown. 689 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,800 He was a well-known ne'er-do-well among the Italian 690 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:13,200 colony had once been a skillful sculptor and earned an honest 691 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,300 living. But he had taken to evil 692 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:19,000 courses, and a twice. Already been in jail once for a 693 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,000 petty theft and once as we had already heard for stabbing a 694 00:41:23,008 --> 00:41:26,500 fellow Countryman, He could talk English perfectly. 695 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:31,200 Well, his reasons for destroying the bus was still unknown and 696 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,200 you refuse to answer any questions upon the subject. 697 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,700 But the police had discovered that these same busts might very 698 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:41,900 well have been made by his own hands. 699 00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:44,800 Since he was engaged in this class of work at the 700 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,600 establishment of gelder and Company, to all this 701 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,700 information, much of which we already knew Holmes listened 702 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:57,800 with polite attention, but I who knew him so well could clearly 703 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,800 see that his thoughts were elsewhere. 704 00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:03,200 And I detected a mixture of mingled, uneasiness and 705 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,500 expectation beneath that mask. Which he was wont to assume at 706 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,900 last he started in his chair and his eyes brightened. 707 00:42:12,700 --> 00:42:14,100 There had been a ring at the Bell. 708 00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:17,900 A minute later. We heard steps upon the stairs 709 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,200 and an elderly red-faced man with grizzled side-whiskers was 710 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,100 ushered in in his right hand. He carried an old-fashioned 711 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:28,800 carpet bag, which he placed upon the table. 712 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,000 Is mr. Sherlock Holmes here, my friend 713 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,600 bowed and smiled. Mr. Sandiford of reading. 714 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,500 I suppose said he yes, sir. I fear that I'm a little late 715 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,700 but the trains were awkward. You wrote to me about a bus that 716 00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:48,700 is in my possession. Exactly. 717 00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:54,000 I have your letter here. You said, I desire to possess a 718 00:42:54,008 --> 00:42:57,300 copy of davines Napoleon and and prepared to pay. 719 00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:00,300 You 10 pounds for the one which is in Position. 720 00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:03,400 Is that right? Certainly. 721 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:07,500 Now, I was very much surprised at your letter for I could not 722 00:43:07,500 --> 00:43:10,200 imagine how you knew that I own such a thing. 723 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,000 Of course, you must have been surprised but the explanation is 724 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,100 very simple. Mr. Harding of Harding Brothers. 725 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,700 Said that they had sold you their last copy and he gave me 726 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:25,300 your address. Oh, that was it. 727 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:28,100 Was it, did he tell you what? I paid for it? 728 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,200 No, he did not well, I am an honest man, though. 729 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,700 Not a very rich one. I only gave 15 Shillings for the 730 00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:39,900 bust and I think you ought to know that before I take 10 731 00:43:39,900 --> 00:43:43,700 pounds from you. I am sure the scrupled as you 732 00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:46,300 honor, mr. Sandeford, but I have named that 733 00:43:46,300 --> 00:43:48,800 price. So I intend to stick to it. 734 00:43:49,700 --> 00:43:51,800 Well, it's very handsome of you. Mr. Holmes. 735 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,700 I bought the bust up with me, as you asked me to do. 736 00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:58,500 Here it is. He opened his bag. 737 00:43:58,900 --> 00:44:03,400 And at last, we saw placed upon our table a complete specimen of 738 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:07,100 that bust which we had already seen more than once in fragments 739 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,500 Holmes. Took a paper from his pocket and 740 00:44:10,500 --> 00:44:12,600 laid a ten pound note upon the table. 741 00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:17,200 You will kindly sign that paper. Mr. Sandiford in the presence of 742 00:44:17,207 --> 00:44:20,200 these Witnesses. It is simply to say that you 743 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,600 transfer every possible, right? That you ever had in the bust to 744 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,000 me. I am a methodical man. 745 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,200 You see? And you never know what turn 746 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,800 events might take afterwards. Thank you. 747 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,200 Mr. Sanford. Here is your money and I wish 748 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,800 you a very good evening. When our visitor had 749 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,400 disappeared, Sherlock Holmes is movements with such as to rivet 750 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,900 our attention. He began by taking a clean white 751 00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:48,000 cloth from a drawer and laying it over the table. 752 00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:52,400 Then he placed his newly acquired bust in the center of 753 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,500 the cloth. Finally. 754 00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:58,500 He picked up his hunting-crop and struck Napoleon a sharp. 755 00:44:58,500 --> 00:45:03,300 Blow on the top of the head, the figure broke into fragments and 756 00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:05,800 homes bent eagerly over the shattered remains. 757 00:45:06,700 --> 00:45:09,900 Next, instant with a loud. Shout of Triumph. 758 00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:15,000 He held up one splinter in which a round, dark object was fixed. 759 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,400 Like a plum in a pudding, gentleman. 760 00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:21,200 He cried. Let me introduce you to the 761 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,900 famous black pearl of The Borgias. 762 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,500 Estrada. And I sat silent for a moment 763 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:32,100 and then with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke a 764 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:36,700 clapping as at the well-wrought crisis of a play, a flush of 765 00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:38,900 color sprang to Holmes's pale cheeks. 766 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,300 And he bowed to us, like the master dramatist, who receives 767 00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:46,700 the homage of his audience. It was at such moments that for 768 00:45:46,700 --> 00:45:48,700 an instant. He ceased to be a reasoning 769 00:45:48,700 --> 00:45:52,800 machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and 770 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,400 Applause. The same singularly, proud and 771 00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,700 reserved nature, which turned away with disdain from popular. 772 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:03,900 Notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by 773 00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:07,000 spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend. 774 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,200 Yes, gentlemen said he it is the most famous Pearl. 775 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,600 Now, existing in the world and it has been my good fortune by a 776 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,100 connected chain of inductive reasoning to trace it from the 777 00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:23,700 prince of colonna's bedroom at the duck of hotel, where it was 778 00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:28,600 lost to the interior of this. The last of the six busts of 779 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,500 Napoleon, which were manufactured by gelder and 780 00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:36,100 Company of Stepney. You will remember lestrade the 781 00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:37,800 sensation caused by The Disappearance. 782 00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:41,200 Aaron's of this valuable jewel and the vain efforts of the 783 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,700 London, Police to recover it. I was myself consulted upon the 784 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:48,900 case, but I was unable to throw any light upon it. 785 00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:53,500 Suspicion fell upon the made of the princess who was an Italian 786 00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:57,300 and it was proved that she had a brother in London, but we failed 787 00:46:57,300 --> 00:46:59,300 to trace any connection between them. 788 00:47:00,100 --> 00:47:05,500 The maid's name was Lucretia venucci and there is no doubt in 789 00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:10,700 my mind that this Pietro Row who was murdered two nights ago was 790 00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:13,800 the brother. I have been looking at the dates 791 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,900 in the old files of the paper. And I find that The 792 00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:20,300 Disappearance of the Pearl was exactly, two days before the 793 00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:25,200 arrest of Beppo, for some Crime Of Violence, an event which took 794 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:29,900 place in the factory of gelda and Company at the very moment 795 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,200 when these busts were being made. 796 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,300 Now, you clearly see the sequence of events, though. 797 00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:40,300 You see them. Of course in the inverse order 798 00:47:40,300 --> 00:47:43,000 to the way in which they presented themselves to me. 799 00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:46,400 Beppo had the Pearl in his possession. 800 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,200 He may have stolen it from Pietro. 801 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,700 He may have been Pietro's Confederate. 802 00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:55,000 He may have been the go-between of Pietro and his sister. 803 00:47:55,700 --> 00:47:58,800 It is of no consequence to us, which is the correct solution. 804 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:04,500 The main fact, is that he had the Pearl And at that moment, 805 00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:08,900 when it was on his person, he was pursued by the police he 806 00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:12,300 made for the factory in which he worked, and he knew that he had 807 00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:15,100 only a few minutes in which to conceal, this enormously 808 00:48:15,100 --> 00:48:19,000 valuable prize, which would otherwise be found on him when 809 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,700 he was searched. Six plaster, casts of Napoleon, 810 00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:27,000 were drying in the passage. One of them was still soft in an 811 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,900 instant Beppo. A skilful Workman made a small 812 00:48:30,900 --> 00:48:33,100 hole in the wet plaster Dropped In. 813 00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:35,500 The Pearl. And with a few touches covered 814 00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:39,800 over the aperture once more, it was an admirable hiding place. 815 00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:44,400 No one could possibly find it. But Beppo was condemned to a 816 00:48:44,408 --> 00:48:47,400 years imprisonment. And in the meanwhile, his six 817 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,600 busts were scattered over London, he could not tell which 818 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,000 contained his treasure only by breaking them. 819 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,100 Could he see even shaking would tell him nothing for. 820 00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:01,600 As the plaster was wet? It was probable that the Pearl 821 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,800 would adhere to it. I was in fact, it is done. 822 00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:08,600 Beppo. Did not Despair and he conducted 823 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,800 his search with considerable Ingenuity and perseverance 824 00:49:12,500 --> 00:49:14,300 through a cousin who works with gelder. 825 00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:17,200 He found out the retail firms who had bought the busts. 826 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,500 He managed to find employment with Morse Hudson. 827 00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:23,100 And in that way track down three of them. 828 00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:27,400 The Pearl was not there then with the help of some Italian 829 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,200 employee. He succeeded in finding out 830 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,100 where the other three busts had gone. 831 00:49:33,100 --> 00:49:37,200 The first was at Hawkers there. He was dogged by his Confederate 832 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:40,200 who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the Pearl. 833 00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,100 And he stabbed him in the scuffle, which followed, if you 834 00:49:44,100 --> 00:49:46,700 was his Confederate. Why should he carries 835 00:49:46,700 --> 00:49:50,400 photograph? I asked as a means of tracing 836 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,200 him if he wished to inquire about him from any third person. 837 00:49:55,100 --> 00:49:58,500 And that was the obvious reason. Well, after the murder, I 838 00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:00,700 calculated. That Beppo would probably hurry 839 00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:04,100 rather than delay his movements he would Fear that the police 840 00:50:04,100 --> 00:50:07,300 would read his secret. And so he hastened on before 841 00:50:07,300 --> 00:50:10,100 they could get ahead of him. Of course. 842 00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,300 I could not say that he had not found the Pearl in Harker's 843 00:50:13,300 --> 00:50:15,700 bust. I'd not even concluded for 844 00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:19,600 certain that it was the Pearl but it was evident to me that he 845 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,000 was looking for something. Since he carried the bust, pass 846 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,600 the other houses in order to break it in the garden which had 847 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,100 a lamp. Overlooking it. 848 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,700 Since Harker's bust was one in three. 849 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,800 The chances were exactly. As I told you two to one against 850 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:40,600 a pearl being inside it there remained two busts and it was 851 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,600 obvious that he would go for the London one. 852 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,400 First. I warned the inmates of the 853 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,100 house. So as to avoid a second tragedy 854 00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:52,800 and we went down with the happiest results by that time, 855 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,200 of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia Pearl 856 00:50:56,200 --> 00:51:00,500 that we were after The name of the murdered man, linked the one 857 00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:04,800 event with the other there only remained a single bust the 858 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,400 reading one and the Pearl must be there. 859 00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:11,300 I bought it in your presence from the owner and there it 860 00:51:11,300 --> 00:51:15,000 lies. We sat in silence for a moment. 861 00:51:16,300 --> 00:51:20,800 Well said lestrade I've seen you and low good many cases. 862 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,900 Mr. Holmes, but I don't know that I've ever know more Workman 863 00:51:24,900 --> 00:51:28,800 like one than that. We're not jealous of you at 864 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,900 Scotland Yard. No, sir. 865 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,600 We are very proud of you. And if you come down tomorrow, 866 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,900 there's not a man from the oldest inspector to the youngest 867 00:51:37,900 --> 00:51:40,900 Constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you, by the end. 868 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,800 Thank you, said Holmes. Thank you. 869 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,900 And as he turned away, it seemed to me that he was more nearly 870 00:51:48,900 --> 00:51:52,300 moved by the softer, human emotions, and I had ever seen 871 00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:54,800 him. A moment later. 872 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:59,300 He was the cold and practical thinker once more put the Pearl 873 00:51:59,300 --> 00:52:02,600 in the safe. Watson said he and get out the 874 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,800 papers of The Conch Singleton, forgery case. 875 00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,800 Goodbye lestrade. If any little problem comes your 876 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,600 way. I shall be happy. 877 00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:15,500 If I can to give you a hint or two as to its solution. 878 00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:21,900 End of the adventure of the six Napoleon's.