six_napoleons.txt

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<s> IT WAS NO VERY UNUSUAL THING FOR MR. LESTRADE OF SCOTLAND YARD TO LOOK IN UPON US OF AN EVENING AND HIS VISITS WERE WELCOME TO SHERLOCK HOLMES FOR THEY ENABLED HIM TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ALL THAT WAS GOING ON AT THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS </s>
<s> IN RETURN FOR THE NEWS WHICH LESTRDE WOULD BRING HOLMES WAS ALWAYS READY TO LISTEN WITH ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS OF ANY CASE UPON WHICH THE DETECTIVE WAS ENGAGED AND WAS ABLE OCCASIONALLY WITHOUT ANY ACTIVE INTERFERENCE TO GIVE SOME HINT OR SUGGESTION DRAWN FROM HIS OWN VAST KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE </s>
<s> ON THIS PARTICULAR EVENING LESTRADE HAD SPOKEN OF THE WEATHER AND THE NEWSPAPERS </s>
<s> THEN HE HAD FALLEN SILENT PUFFING THOUGHTFULLY AT HIS CIGAR </s>
<s> HOLMES LOOKED KEENLY AT HIM </s>
<s> QUOTE ANYTHING REMARKABLE ON HAND QUOTE HE ASKED </s>
<s> OH NO MR. HOLMES NOTHING VERY PARTICULAR </s>
<s> THEN TELL ME ABOUT IT </s>
<s> LESTRADE LAUGHED </s>
<s> WELL MR. HOLMES THERE IS NO USE DENYING THAT THERE IS SOMETHING ON MY MIND </s>
<s> AND YET IT IS SUCH AN ABSURD BUSINESS THAT I HESITATED TO BOTHER YOU ABOUT IT </s>
<s> ON THE OTHER HAND ALTHOUGH IT IS TRIVIAL IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY QUEER AND I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A TASTE FOR ALL THAT IS OUT OF THE COMMON </s>
<s> BUT IN MY OPINION IT COMES MORE IN DOCTOR WATSON'S LINE THAN OURS </s>
<s> DISEASE SAID I </s>
<s> QUOTE MADNESS ANYHOW </s>
<s> AND A QUEER MADNESS TOO </s>
<s> YOU WOULDN'T THINK THERE WAS ANYONE LIVING AT THIS TIME OF DAY WHO HAD SUCH A HATRED OF NAPOLEON THE FIRST THAT HE WOULD BREAK ANY IMAGE OF HIM THAT HE COULD SEE </s>
<s> HOLMES SANK BACK IN HIS CHAIR </s>
<s> THAT'S NO BUSINESS OF MINE SAID HE </s>
<s> EXACTLY </s>
<s> THAT'S WHAT I SAID </s>
<s> BUT THEN WHEN THE MAN COMMITS BURGLARY IN ORDER TO BREAK IMAGES WHICH ARE NOT HIS OWN THAT BRINGS IT AWAY FROM THE DOCTOR AND ON TO THE POLICEMAN </s>
<s> HOLMES SAT UP AGAIN </s>
<s> BURGLARY </s>
<s> THIS IS MORE INTERESTING </s>
<s> LET ME HEAR THE DETAILS QUOTE </s>
<s> LESTRADE TOOK OUT HIS OFFICIAL NOTEBOOK AND REFRESHED HIS MEMORY FROM ITS PAGES </s>
<s> THE FIRST CASE REPORTED WAS FOUR DAYS AGO SAID HE </s>
<s> IT WAS AT THE SHOP OF MORSE HUDSON WHO HAS A PLACE FOR THE SALE OF PICTURES AND STATUES IN THE KENNINGTON ROAD </s>
<s> THE ASSISTANT HAD LEFT THE FRONT SHOP FOR AN INSTANT WHEN HE HEARD A CRASH AND HURRYING IN HE FOUND A PLASTER BUST OF NAPOLEON WHICH STOOD WITH SEVERAL OTHER WORKS OF ART UPON THE COUNTER LYING SHIVERED INTO FRAGMENTS </s>
<s> HE RUSHED OUT INTO THE ROAD BUT ALTHOUGH SEVERAL PASSERS BY DECLARED THAT THEY HAD NOTICED A MAN RUN OUT OF THE SHOP HE COULD NEITHER SEE ANYONE NOR COULD HE FIND ANY MEANS OF IDENTIFYING THE RASCAL </s>
<s> IT SEEMED TO BE ONE OF THOSE SENSELESS ACTS OF HOOLIGANISM WHICH OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME AND IT WAS REPORTED TO THE CONSTABLE ON THE BEAT AS SUCH </s>
<s> THE PLASTER CAST WAS NOT WORTH MORE THAN A FEW SHILLINGS AND THE WHOLE AFFAIR APPEARED TO BE TOO CHILDISH FOR ANY PARTICULAR INVESTIGATION </s>
<s> THE SECOND CASE HOWEVER WAS MORE SERIOUS AND ALSO MORE SINGULAR </s>
<s> IT OCCURRED ONLY LAST NIGHT </s>
<s> IN KENNINGTON ROAD AND WITHIN A FEW HUNDRED YARDS OF MORSE HUDSON'S SHOP THERE LIVES A WELL KNOWN MEDICAL PRACTITIONER NAMED DOCTOR BARNICOT WHO HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST PRACTICES UPON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE THAMES </s>
<s> HIS RESIDENCE AND PRINCIPAL CONSULTING ROOM IS AT KENNINGTON ROAD BUT HE HAS A BRANCH SURGERY AND DISPENSARY AT LOWER BRIXTON ROAD TWO MILES AWAY </s>
<s> THIS DOCTOR BARNICOT IS AN ENTHUSIASTIC ADMIRER OF NAPOLEON AND HIS HOUSE IS FULL OF BOOKS PICTURES AND RELICS OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR </s>
<s> SOME LITTLE TIME AGO HE PURCHASED FROM MORSE HUDSON TWO DUPLICATE PLASTER CASTS OF THE FAMOUS HEAD OF NAPOLEON BY THE FRENCH SCULPTOR DEVINE </s>
<s> ONE OF THESE HE PLACED IN HIS HALL IN THE HOUSE AT KENNINGTON ROAD AND THE OTHER ON THE MANTELPIECE OF THE SURGERY AT LOWER BRIXTON </s>
<s> WELL WHEN DOCTOR BARNICOT CAME DOWN THIS MORNING HE WAS ASTONISHED TO FIND THAT HIS HOUSE HAD BEEN BURGLED DURING THE NIGHT BUT THAT NOTHING HAD BEEN TAKEN SAVE THE PLASTER HEAD FROM THE HALL </s>
<s> IT HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT AND HAD BEEN DASHED SAVAGELY AGAINST THE GARDEN WALL UNDER WHICH ITS SPLINTERED FRAGMENTS WERE DISCOVERED </s>
<s> HOLMES RUBBED HIS HANDS </s>
<s> QUOTE THIS IS CERTAINLY VERY NOVEL QUOTE SAID HE </s>
<s> I THOUGHT IT WOULD PLEASE YOU </s>
<s> BUT I HAVE NOT GOT TO THE END YET </s>
<s> DOCTOR BARNICOT WAS DUE AT HIS SURGERY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK AND YOU CAN IMAGINE HIS AMAZEMENT WHEN ON ARRIVING THERE HE FOUND THAT THE WINDOW HAD BEEN OPENED IN THE NIGHT AND THAT THE BROKEN PIECES OF HIS SECOND BUST WERE STREWN ALL OVER THE ROOM </s>
<s> IT HAD BEEN SMASHED TO ATOMS WHERE IT STOOD </s>
<s> IN NEITHER CASE WERE THERE ANY SIGNS WHICH COULD GIVE US A CLUE AS TO THE CRIMINAL OR LUNATIC WHO HAD DONE THE MISCHIEF </s>
<s> NOW MR. HOLMES YOU HAVE GOT THE FACTS </s>
<s> THEY ARE SINGULAR NOT TO SAY GROTESQUE SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> MAY I ASK WHETHER THE TWO BUSTS SMASHED IN DOCTOR BARNICOT'S ROOMS WERE THE EXACT DUPLICATES OF THE ONE WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN MORSE HUDSON'S SHOP </s>
<s> THEY WERE TAKEN FROM THE SAME MOULD </s>
<s> QUOTE SUCH A FACT MUST TELL AGAINST THE THEORY THAT THE MAN WHO BREAKS THEM IS INFLUENCED BY ANY GENERAL HATRED OF NAPOLEON </s>
<s> CONSIDERING HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF STATUES OF THE GREAT EMPEROR MUST EXIST IN LONDON IT IS TOO MUCH TO SUPPOSE SUCH A COINCIDENCE AS THAT A PROMISCUOUS ICONOCLAST SHOULD CHANCE TO BEGIN UPON THREE SPECIMENS OF THE SAME BUST </s>
<s> WELL I THOUGHT AS YOU DO SAID LESTRADE </s>
<s> ON THE OTHER HAND THIS MORSE HUDSON IS THE PURVEYOR OF BUSTS IN THAT PART OF LONDON AND THESE THREE WERE THE ONLY ONES WHICH HAD BEEN IN HIS SHOP FOR YEARS </s>
<s> SO ALTHOUGH AS YOU SAY THERE ARE MANY HUNDREDS OF STATUES IN LONDON IT IS VERY PROBABLE THAT THESE THREE WERE THE ONLY ONES IN THAT DISTRICT </s>
<s> THEREFORE A LOCAL FANATIC WOULD BEGIN WITH THEM </s>
<s> WHAT DO YOU THINK DOCTOR WATSON </s>
<s> THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF MONOMANIA I ANSWERED </s>
<s> QUOTE THERE IS THE CONDITION WHICH THE MODERN FRENCH PSYCHOLOGISTS HAVE CALLED THE IDEE FIXE WHICH MAY BE TRIFLING IN CHARACTER AND ACCOMPANIED BY COMPLETE SANITY IN EVERY OTHER WAY </s>
<s> A MAN WHO HAD READ DEEPLY ABOUT NAPOLEON OR WHO HAD POSSIBLY RECEIVED SOME HEREDITARY FAMILY INJURY THROUGH THE GREAT WAR MIGHT CONCEIVABLY FORM SUCH AN IDEE FIXE AND UNDER ITS INFLUENCE BE CAPABLE OF ANY FANTASTIC OUTRAGE </s>
<s> THAT WON'T DO MY DEAR WATSON SAID HOLMES SHAKING HIS HEAD FOR NO AMOUNT OF IDEE FIXE WOULD ENABLE YOUR INTERESTING MONOMANIAC TO FIND OUT WHERE THESE BUSTS WERE SITUATED </s>
<s> WELL HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN IT </s>
<s> I DON'T ATTEMPT TO DO SO </s>
<s> I WOULD ONLY OBSERVE THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN METHOD IN THE GENTLEMAN'S ECCENTRIC PROCEEDINGS </s>
<s> FOR EXAMPLE IN DOCTOR BARNICOT'S HALL WHERE A SOUND MIGHT AROUSE THE FAMILY THE BUST WAS TAKEN OUTSIDE BEFORE BEING BROKEN WHEREAS IN THE SURGERY WHERE THERE WAS LESS DANGER OF AN ALARM IT WAS SMASHED WHERE IT STOOD </s>
<s> THE AFFAIR SEEMS ABSURDLY TRIFLING AND YET I DARE CALL NOTHING TRIVIAL WHEN I REFLECT THAT SOME OF MY MOST CLASSIC CASES HAVE HAD THE LEAST PROMISING COMMENCEMENT </s>
<s> YOU WILL REMEMBER WATSON HOW THE DREADFUL BUSINESS OF THE ABERNETTY FAMILY WAS FIRST BROUGHT TO MY NOTICE BY THE DEPTH WHICH THE PARSLEY HAD SUNK INTO THE BUTTER UPON A HOT DAY </s>
<s> I CAN'T AFFORD THEREFORE TO SMILE AT YOUR THREE BROKEN BUSTS LESTRADE AND I SHALL BE VERY MUCH OBLIGED TO YOU IF YOU WILL LET ME HEAR OF ANY FRESH DEVELOPMENT OF SO SINGULAR A CHAIN OF EVENTS </s>
<s> THE DEVELOPMENT FOR WHICH MY FRIEND HAD ASKED CAME IN A QUICKER AND AN INFINITELY MORE TRAGIC FORM THAN HE COULD HAVE IMAGINED </s>
<s> I WAS STILL DRESSING IN MY BEDROOM NEXT MORNING WHEN THERE WAS A TAP AT THE DOOR AND HOLMES ENTERED A TELEGRAM IN HIS HAND </s>
<s> HE READ IT ALOUD QUOTE COME INSTANTLY ONE HUNDRED THIRTY ONE PITT STREET KENSINGTON </s>
<s> LESTRADE </s>
<s> WHAT IS IT THEN </s>
<s> I ASKED </s>
<s> DON'T KNOW MAY BE ANYTHING </s>
<s> BUT I SUSPECT IT IS THE SEQUEL OF THE STORY OF THE STATUES </s>
<s> IN THAT CASE OUR FRIEND THE IMAGEBREAKER HAS BEGUN OPERATIONS IN ANOTHER QUARTER OF LONDON </s>
<s> THERE'S COFFEE ON THE TABLE WATSON AND I HAVE A CAB AT THE DOOR </s>
<s> IN HALF AN HOUR WE HAD REACHED PITT STREET A QUIET LITTLE BACKWATER JUST BESIDE ONE OF THE BRISKEST CURRENTS OF LONDON LIFE </s>
<s> NUMBER ONE HUNDRED THIRTY ONE WAS ONE OF A ROW ALL FLAT CHESTED RESPECTABLE AND MOST UNROMANTIC DWELLINGS </s>
<s> AS WE DROVE UP WE FOUND THE RAILINGS IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE LINED BY A CURIOUS CROWD </s>
<s> HOLMES WHISTLED </s>
<s> BY GEORGE IT'S ATTEMPTED MURDER AT THE LEAST </s>
<s> NOTHING LESS WILL HOLD THE LONDON MESSAGE BOY </s>
<s> THERE'S A DEED OF VIOLENCE INDICATED IN THAT FELLOW'S ROUND SHOULDERS AND OUTSTRETCHED NECK </s>
<s> WHAT'S THIS WATSON </s>
<s> THE TOP STEPS SWILLED DOWN AND THE OTHER ONES DRY </s>
<s> FOOTSTEPS ENOUGH ANYHOW </s>
<s> WELL WELL THERE'S LESTRADE AT THE FRONT WINDOW AND WE SHALL SOON KNOW ALL ABOUT IT QUOTE </s>
<s> THE OFFICIAL RECEIVED US WITH A VERY GRAVE FACE AND SHOWED US INTO A SITTING ROOM WHERE AN EXCEEDINGLY UNKEMPT AND AGITATED ELDERLY MAN CLAD IN A FLANNEL DRESSING GOWN WAS PACING UP AND DOWN </s>
<s> HE WAS INTRODUCED TO US AS THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE MR. HORACE HARKER OF THE CENTRAL PRESS SYNDICATE </s>
<s> IT'S THE NAPOLEON BUST BUSINESS AGAIN SAID LESTRADE </s>
<s> YOU SEEMED INTERESTED LAST NIGHT MR. HOLMES SO I THOUGHT PERHAPS YOU WOULD BE GLAD TO BE PRESENT NOW THAT THE AFFAIR HAS TAKEN A VERY MUCH GRAVER TURN </s>
<s> WHAT HAS IT TURNED TO THEN </s>
<s> TO MURDER </s>
<s> MR. HARKER WILL YOU TELL THESE GENTLEMEN EXACTLY WHAT HAS OCCURRED </s>
<s> THE MAN IN THE DRESSING GOWN TURNED UPON US WITH A MOST MELANCHOLY FACE </s>
<s> QUOTE IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY THING QUOTE SAID HE QUOTE THAT ALL MY LIFE I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING OTHER PEOPLE'S NEWS AND NOW THAT A REAL PIECE OF NEWS HAS COME MY OWN WAY I AM SO CONFUSED AND BOTHERED THAT I CAN'T PUT TWO WORDS TOGETHER </s>
<s> IF I HAD COME IN HERE AS A JOURNALIST I SHOULD HAVE INTERVIEWED MYSELF AND HAD TWO COLUMNS IN EVERY EVENING PAPER </s>
<s> AS IT IS I AM GIVING AWAY VALUABLE COPY BY TELLING MY STORY OVER AND OVER TO A STRING OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND I CAN MAKE NO USE OF IT MYSELF </s>
<s> HOWEVER I'VE HEARD YOUR NAME MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND IF YOU'LL ONLY EXPLAIN THIS QUEER BUSINESS I SHALL BE PAID FOR MY TROUBLE IN TELLING YOU THE STORY </s>
<s> HOLMES SAT DOWN AND LISTENED </s>
<s> IT ALL SEEMS TO CENTRE ROUND THAT BUST OF NAPOLEON WHICH I BOUGHT FOR THIS VERY ROOM ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AGO </s>
<s> I PICKED IT UP CHEAP FROM HARDING BROTHERS TWO DOORS FROM THE HIGH STREET STATION </s>
<s> A GREAT DEAL OF MY JOURNALISTIC WORK IS DONE AT NIGHT AND I OFTEN WRITE UNTIL THE EARLY MORNING </s>
<s> SO IT WAS TO DAY </s>
<s> I WAS SITTING IN MY DEN WHICH IS AT THE BACK OF THE TOP OF THE HOUSE ABOUT THREE O'CLOCK WHEN I WAS CONVINCED THAT L. HEARD SOME SOUNDS DOWNSTAIRS </s>
<s> I LISTENED BUT THEY WERE NOT REPEATED AND I CONCLUDED THAT THEY CAME FROM OUTSIDE </s>
<s> THEN SUDDENLY ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER THERE CAME A MOST HORRIBLE YELL THE MOST DREADFUL SOUND MR. HOLMES THAT EVER I HEARD </s>
<s> IT WILL RING IN MY EARS AS LONG AS I LIVE </s>
<s> I SAT FROZEN WITH HORROR FOR A MINUTE OR TWO </s>
<s> THEN I SEIZED THE POKER AND WENT DOWNSTAIRS </s>
<s> WHEN I ENTERED THIS ROOM I FOUND THE WINDOW WIDE OPEN AND I AT ONCE OBSERVED THAT THE BUST WAS GONE FROM THE MANTELPIECE </s>
<s> WHY ANY BURGLAR SHOULD TAKE SUCH A THING PASSES MY UNDERSTANDING FOR IT WAS ONLY A PLASTER CAST AND OF NO REAL VALUE WHATEVER </s>
<s> YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF THAT ANYONE GOING OUT THROUGH THAT OPEN WINDOW COULD REACH THE FRONT DOORSTEP BY TAKING A LONG STRIDE </s>
<s> THIS WAS CLEARLY WHAT THE BURGLAR HAD DONE SO I WENT ROUND AND OPENED THE DOOR </s>
<s> STEPPING OUT INTO THE DARK I NEARLY FELL OVER A DEAD MAN WHO WAS LYING THERE </s>
<s> I RAN BACK FOR A LIGHT AND THERE WAS THE POOR FELLOW A GREAT GASH IN HIS THROAT AND THE WHOLE PLACE SWIMMING IN BLOOD </s>
<s> HE LAY ON HIS BACK HIS KNEES DRAWN UP AND HIS MOUTH HORRIBLY OPEN </s>
<s> I SHALL SEE HIM IN MY DREAMS </s>
<s> I HAD JUST TIME TO BLOW ON MY POLICE WHISTLE AND THEN I MUST HAVE FAINTED FOR I KNEW NOTHING MORE UNTIL I FOUND THE POLICEMAN STANDING OVER ME IN THE HALL </s>
<s> WELL WHO WAS THE MURDERED MAN ASKED HOLMES </s>
<s> QUOTE THERE'S NOTHING TO SHOW WHO HE WAS QUOTE SAID LESTRADE </s>
<s> YOU SHALL SEE THE BODY AT THE MORTUARY BUT WE HAVE MADE NOTHING OF IT UP TO NOW </s>
<s> HE IS A TALL MAN SUNBURNED VERY POWERFUL NOT MORE THAN THIRTY </s>
<s> HE IS POORLY DRESSED AND YET DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A LABOURER </s>
<s> A HORN HANDLED CLASP KNIFE WAS LYING IN A POOL OF BLOOD BESIDE HIM </s>
<s> WHETHER IT WAS THE WEAPON WHICH DID THE DEED OR WHETHER IT BELONGED TO THE DEAD MAN I DO NOT KNOW </s>