six_napoleons.txt

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<s> BUT IT WAS NOT OUR PRISONER TO WHOM HOLMES WAS GIVING HIS ATTENTION </s>
<s> SQUATTED ON THE DOORSTEP HE WAS ENGAGED IN MOST CAREFULLY EXAMINING THAT WHICH THE MAN HAD BROUGHT FROM THE HOUSE </s>
<s> IT WAS A BUST OF NAPOLEON </s>
<s> IIKE THE ONE WHICH WE HAD SEEN THAT MORNING AND IT HAD BEEN BROKEN INTO SIMILAR FRAGMENTS </s>
<s> CAREFULLY HOLMES HELD EACH SEPARATE SHARD TO THE LIGHT BUT IN NO WAY DID IT DIFFER FROM ANY OTHER SHATTERED PIECE OF PLASTER </s>
<s> HE HAD JUST COMPLETED HIS EXAMINATION WHEN THE HALL LIGHTS FLEW UP THE DOOR OPENED AND THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE A JOVIAL ROTUND FIGURE IN SHIRT AND TROUSERS PRESENTED HIMSELI </s>
<s> MR. JOSIAH BROWN I SUPPOSE SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> YES SIR AND YOU NO DOUBT ARE MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES </s>
<s> I HAD THE NOTE WHICH YOU SENT BY THE EXPRESS MESSENGER AND I DID EXACTLY WHAT YOU TOLD ME </s>
<s> WE LOCKED EVERY DOOR ON THE INSIDE AND AWAITED DEVELOPMENTS </s>
<s> WELL I'M VERY GLAD TO SEE THAT YOU HAVE GOT THE RASCAL </s>
<s> I HOPE GENTLEMEN THAT YOU WILL COME IN AND HAVE SOME REFRESHMENT </s>
<s> HOWEVER LESTRADE WAS ANXIOUS TO GET HIS MAN INTO SAFE QUARTERS SO WITHIN A FEW MINUTES OUR CAB HAD BCEN SUMMONED AND WE WERE ALL TOUR UPON OUR WAY TO LONDON </s>
<s> NOT A WORD WOULD OUR CAPTIVE SAY. BUT HE GLARED AT US FROM THC SHADOW OF HIS MATTED HAIR. AND ONCE. WHEN MY HAND SEEMED WITHIN HIS REACH HE SNAPPED AT IT LIKE A HUNGRY WOLF </s>
<s> WE STAYED LONG ENOUGH AT THE POLICE STATION TO LEARN THAT A SEARCH OF HIS CLOTHING REVEALED NOTHING SAVE A FEW SHILLINGS AND A LONG SHEATH KNIFE THE HANDLE OF WHICH BORE COPIOUS TRACES OF RECENT BLOOD </s>
<s> THAT'S ALL RIGHT SAID LESTRADE AS WE PARTED </s>
<s> QUOTE HILL KNOWS ALL THESE GENTRY AND HE WILL GIVE A NAME TO HIM </s>
<s> YOU'LL FIND THAT MY THEORY OF THE MAFIA WILL WORK OUT ALL RIGHT </s>
<s> BUT I'M SURE I AM EXCEEDINGLY OBLIGED TO YOU MR. HOLMES FOR THE WORKMANLIKE WAY IN WHICH YOU LAID HANDS UPON HIM </s>
<s> I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND IT ALL YET </s>
<s> I FEAR IT IS RATHER TOO LATE AN HOUR FOR EXPLANATIONS SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> BESIDES THERE ARE ONE OR TWO DETAILS WHICH ARE NOT FINISHED OFF AND IT IS ONE OF THOSE CASES WHICH ARE WORTH WORKING OUT TO THE VERY END </s>
<s> IF YOU WILL COME ROUND ONCE MORE TO MY ROOMS AT SIX O'CLOCK TO MORROW I THINK I SHALL BE ABLE TO SHOW YOU THAT EVEN NOW YOU HAVE NOT GRASPED THE ENTIRE MEANING OF THIS BUSINESS WHICH PRESENTS SOME FEATURES WHICH MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY ORIGINAL IN THE HISTORY OF CRIME </s>
<s> IF EVER I PERMIT YOU TO CHRONICLE ANY MORE OF MY LITTLE PROBLEMS WATSON I FORESEE THAT YOU WILL ENLIVEN YOUR PAGES BY AN ACCOUNT OF THE SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF THE NAPOLEONIC BUSTS </s>
<s> WHEN WE MET AGAIN NEXT EVENING LESTRADE WAS FURNISHED WITH MUCH INFORMATION CONCERNING OUR PRISONER </s>
<s> HIS NAME IT APPEARED WAS BEPPO SECOND NAME UNKNOWN </s>
<s> HE WAS A WELLKNOWN NE'ER DO WELL AMONG THE ITALIAN COLONY </s>
<s> HE HAD ONCE BEEN A SKILFUL SCULPTOR AND HAD EARNED AN HONEST LIVING BUT HE HAD TAKEN TO EVIL COURSES AND HAD TWICE ALREADY BEEN IN JAIL ONCE FOR A PETTY THEFT AND ONCE AS WE HAD ALREADY HEARD FOR STABBING A FELLOW COUNTRYMAN </s>
<s> HE COULD TALK ENGLISH PERFECTLY WELL </s>
<s> HIS REASONS FOR DESTROYING THE BUSTS WERE STILL UNKNOWN AND HE REFUSED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS UPON THE SUBJECT BUT THE POLICE HAD DISCOVERED THAT THESE SAME BUSTS MIGHT VERY WELL HAVE BEEN MADE BY HIS OWN HANDS SINCE HE WAS ENGAGED IN THIS CLASS OF WORK AT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GELDER AND COMPANY </s>
<s> TO ALL THIS INFORMATION MUCH OF WHICH WE ALREADY KNEW HOLMES LISTENED WITH POLITE ATTENTION BUT I WHO KNEW HIM SO WELL COULD CLEARLY SEE THAT HIS THOUGHTS WERE ELSEWHERE AND I DETECTED A MIXTURE OF MINGLED UNEASINESS AND EXPECTATION BENEATH THAT MASK WHICH HE WAS WONT TO ASSUME </s>
<s> AT LAST HE STARTED IN HIS CHAIR AND HIS EYES BRIGHTENED </s>
<s> THERE HAD BEEN A RING AT THE BELL </s>
<s> A MINUTE LATER WE HEARD STEPS UPON THE STAIRS AND AN ELDERLY RED FACED MAN WITH GRIZZLED SIDE WHISKERS WAS USHERED IN </s>
<s> IN HIS RIGHT HAND HE CARRIED AN OLD FASHIONED CARPET BAG WHICH HE PLACED UPON THE TABLE </s>
<s> IS MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES HERE </s>
<s> MY FRIEND BOWED AND SMILED </s>
<s> QUOTE MR. SANDEFORD OF READING I SUPPOSE QUOTE SAID HE </s>
<s> YES SIR I FEAR THAT I AM A LITTLE LATE BUT THE TRAINS WERE AWKWARD </s>
<s> YOU WROTE TO ME ABOUT A BUST THAT IS IN MY POSSESSION </s>
<s> EXACTLY </s>
<s> I HAVE YOUR LETTER HERE </s>
<s> YOU SAID I DESIRE TO POSSESS A COPY OF DEVINE'S NAPOLEON AND AM PREPARED TO PAY YOU TEN POUNDS FOR THE ONE WHICH IS IN YOUR POSSESSION </s>
<s> IS THAT RIGHT </s>
<s> QUOTE CERTAINLY QUOTE </s>
<s> I WAS VERY MUCH SURPRISED AT YOUR LETTER FOR I COULD NOT IMAGINE HOW YOU KNEW THAT I OWNED SUCH A THING </s>
<s> OF COURSE YOU MUST HAVE BEEN SURPRISED BUT THE EXPLANATION IS VERY SIMPLE </s>
<s> MR. HARDING OF HARDING BROTHERS SAID THAT THEY HAD SOLD YOU THEIR LAST COPY AND HE GAVE ME YOUR ADDRESS </s>
<s> OH THAT WAS IT WAS IT </s>
<s> DID HE TELL YOU WHAT I PAID FOR IT </s>
<s> QUOTE NO HE DID NOT QUOTE </s>
<s> WELL I AM AN HONEST MAN THOUGH NOT A VERY RICH ONE </s>
<s> I ONLY GAVE FIFTEEN SHILLINGS FOR THE BUST AND I THINK YOU OUGHT TO KNOW THAT BEFORE I TAKE TEN POUNDS FROM YOU </s>
<s> I AM SURE THE SCRUPLE DOES YOU HONOUR MR. SANDEFORD </s>
<s> BUT I HAVE NAMED THAT PRICE SO I INTEND TO STICK TO IT </s>
<s> WELL IT IS VERY HANDSOME OF YOU MR. HOLMES </s>
<s> I BROUGHT THE BUST UP WITH ME AS YOU ASKED ME TO DO </s>
<s> HERE IT IS QUOTE </s>
<s> HE OPENED HIS BAG AND AT LAST WE SAW PLACED UPON OUR TABLE A COMPLETE SPECIMEN OF THAT BUST WHICH WE HAD ALREADY SEEN MORE THAN ONCE IN FRAGMENTS </s>
<s> HOLMES TOOK A PAPER FROM HIS POCKET AND LAID A TEN POUND NOTE UPON THE TABLE </s>
<s> YOU WILL KINDLY SIGN THAT PAPER MR. SANDEFORD IN THE PRESENCE OF THESE WITNESSES </s>
<s> IT IS SIMPLY TO SAY THAT YOU TRANSFER EVERY POSSIBLE RIGHT THAT YOU EVER HAD IN THE BUST TO ME </s>
<s> I AM A METHODICAL MAN YOU SEE AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TURN EVENTS MIGHT TAKE AFTERWARDS </s>
<s> THANK YOU MR. SANDEFORD HERE IS YOUR MONEY AND I WISH YOU A VERY GOOD EVENING </s>
<s> WHEN OUR VISITOR HAD DISAPPEARED SHERLOCK HOLMES'S MOVEMENTS WERE SUCH AS TO RIVET OUR ATTENTION </s>
<s> HE BEGAN BY TAKING A CLEAN WHITE CLOTH FROM A DRAWER AND LAYING IT OVER THE TABLE </s>
<s> THEN HE PLACED HIS NEWLY ACQUIRED BUST IN THE CENTRE OF THE CLOTH </s>
<s> FINALLY HE PICKED UP HIS HUNTING CROP AND STRUCK NAPOLEON A SHARP BLOW ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD </s>
<s> THE FIGURE BROKE INTO FRAGMENTS AND HOLMES BENT EAGERLY OVER THE SHATTERED REMAINS </s>
<s> NEXT INSTANT WITH A LOUD SHOUT OF TRIUMPH HE HELD UP ONE SPLINTER IN WHICH A ROUND DARK OBJECT WAS FIXED LIKE A PLUM IN A PUDDING </s>
<s> GENTLEMEN HE CRIED LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO THE FAMOUS BLACK PEARL OF THE BORGIAS </s>
<s> LESTRADE AND I SAT SILENT FOR A MOMENT AND THEN WITH A SPONTANEOUS IMPULSE WE BOTH BROKE OUT CLAPPING AS AT THE WELL WROUGHT CRISIS OF A PLAY </s>
<s> A FLUSH OF COLOUR SPRANG TO HOLMES'S PALE CHEEKS AND HE BOWED TO US LIKE THE MASTER DRAMATIST WHO RECEIVES THE HOMAGE OF HIS AUDIENCE </s>
<s> IT WAS AT SUCH MOMENTS THAT FOR AN INSTANT HE CEASED TO BE A REASONING MACHINE AND BETRAYED HIS HUMAN LOVE FOR ADMIRATION AND APPLAUSE </s>
<s> THE SAME SINGULARLY PROUD AND RESERVED NATURE WHICH TURNED AWAY WITH DISDAIN FROM POPULAR NOTORIETY WAS CAPABLE OF BEING MOVED TO ITS DEPTHS BY SPONTANEOUS WONDER AND PRAISE FROM A FRIEND </s>
<s> YES GENTLEMEN SAID HE IT IS THE MOST FAMOUS PEARL NOW EXISTING IN THE WORLD AND IT HAS BEEN MY GOOD FORTUNE BY A CONNECTED CHAIN OF INDUCTIVE REASONING TO TRACE IT FROM THE PRINCE OF COLONNA'S BEDROOM AT THE DACRE HOTEL WHERE IT WAS LOST TO THE INTERIOR OF THIS THE LAST OF THE SIX BUSTS OF NAPOLEON WHICH WERE MANUFACTURED BY GELDER AND COMPANY OF STEPNEY </s>
<s> YOU WILL REMEMBER LESTRADE THE SENSATION CAUSED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THIS VALUABLE JEWEL AND THE VAIN EFFORTS OF THE LONDON POLICE TO RECOVER IT </s>
<s> I WAS MYSELF CONSULTED UPON THE CASE BUT I WAS UNABLE TO THROW ANY LIGHT UPON IT </s>
<s> SUSPICION FELL UPON THE MAID OF THE PRINCESS WHO WAS AN ITALIAN AND IT WAS PROVED THAT SHE HAD A BROTHER IN LONDON BUT WE FAILED TO TRACE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THEM </s>
<s> THE MAID'S NAME WAS LUCRETIA VENUCCI AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THIS PIETRO WHO WAS MURDERED TWO NIGHTS AGO WAS THE BROTHER </s>
<s> I HAVE BEEN LOOKING UP THE DATES IN THE OLD FILES OF THE PAPER AND I FIND THAT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PEARL WAS EXACTLY TWO DAYS BEFORE THE ARREST OF BEPPO FOR SOME CRIME OF VIOLENCE AN EVENT WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE FACTORY OF GELDER AND COMPANY AT THE VERY MOMENT WHEN THESE BUSTS WERE BEING MADE </s>
<s> NOW YOU CLEARLY SEE THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS THOUGH YOU SEE THEM OF COURSE IN THE INVERSE ORDER TO THE WAY IN WHICH THEY PRESENTED THEMSELVES TO ME </s>
<s> BEPPO HAD THE PEARL IN HIS POSSESSION </s>
<s> HE MAY HAVE STOLEN IT FROM PIETRO HE MAY HAVE BEEN PIETRO'S CONFEDERATE HE MAY HAVE BEEN THE GO BETWEEN OF PIETRO AND HIS SISTER </s>
<s> IT IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE TO US WHICH IS THE CORRECT SOLUTION </s>
<s> THE MAIN FACT IS THAT HE HAD THE PEARL AND AT THAT MOMENT WHEN IT WAS ON HIS PERSON HE WAS PURSUED BY THE POLICE </s>
<s> HE MADE FOR THE FACTORY IN WHICH HE WORKED AND HE KNEW THAT HE HAD ONLY A FEW MINUTES IN WHICH TO CONCEAL THIS ENORMOUSLY VALUABLE PRIZE WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE BE FOUND ON HIM WHEN HE WAS SEARCHED </s>
<s> SIX PLASTER CASTS OF NAPOLEON WERE DRYING IN THE PASSAGE </s>
<s> ONE OF THEM WAS STILL SOFT </s>
<s> IN AN INSTANT BEPPO A SKILFUL WORKMAN MADE A SMALL HOLE IN THE WET PLASTER DROPPED IN THE PEARL AND WITH A FEW TOUCHES COVERED OVER THE APERTURE ONCE MORE </s>
<s> IT WAS AN ADMIRABLE HIDING PLACE </s>
<s> NO ONE COULD POSSIBLY FIND IT </s>
<s> BUT BEPPO WAS CONDEMNED TO A YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT AND IN THE MEANWHILE HIS SIX BUSTS WERE SCATTERED OVER LONDON </s>
<s> HE COULD NOT TELL WHICH CONTAINED HIS TREASURE </s>
<s> ONLY BY BREAKING THEM COULD HE SEE </s>
<s> EVEN SHAKING WOULD TELL HIM NOTHING FOR AS THE PLASTER WAS WET IT WAS PROBABLE THAT THE PEARL WOULD ADHERE TO IT AS IN FACT IT HAS DONE </s>
<s> BEPPO DID NOT DESPAIR AND HE CONDUCTED HIS SEARCH WITH CONSIDERABLE INGENUITY AND PERSEVERANCE </s>
<s> THROUGH A COUSIN WHO WORKS WITH GELDER HE FOUND OUT THE RETAIL FIRMS WHO HAD BOUGHT THE BUSTS </s>
<s> HE MANAGED TO FIND EMPLOYMENT WITH MORSE HUDSON AND IN THAT WAY TRACKED DOWN THREE OF THEM </s>
<s> THE PEARL WAS NOT THERE </s>
<s> THEN WITH THE HELP OF SOME ITALIAN EMPLOYE HE SUCCEEDED IN FINDING OUT WHERE THE OTHER THREE BUSTS HAD GONE </s>
<s> THE FIRST WAS AT HARKER'S </s>
<s> THERE HE WAS DOGGED BY HIS CONFEDERATE WHO HELD BEPPO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOSS OF THE PEARL AND HE STABBED HIM IN THE SCUFFLE WHICH FOLLOWED QUOTE </s>
<s> IF HE WAS HIS CONFEDERATE WHY SHOULD HE CARRY HIS PHOTOGRAPH </s>
<s> I ASKED </s>
<s> AS A MEANS OF TRACING HIM IF HE WISHED TO INQUIRE ABOUT HIM FROM ANY THIRD PERSON </s>
<s> THAT WAS THE OBVIOUS REASON </s>
<s> WELL AFTER THE MURDER I CALCULATED THAT BEPPO WOULD PROBABLY HURRY RATHER THAN DELAY HIS MOVEMENTS </s>
<s> HE WOULD FEAR THAT THE POLICE WOULD READ HIS SECRET AND SO HE HASTENED ON BEFORE THEY SHOULD GET AHEAD OF HIM </s>
<s> OF COURSE I COULD NOT SAY THAT HE HAD NOT FOUND THE PEARL IN HARKER'S BUST </s>
<s> I HAD NOT EVEN CONCLUDED FOR CERTAIN THAT IT WAS THE PEARL BUT IT WAS EVIDENT TO ME THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING SINCE HE CARRIED THE BUST PAST THE OTHER HOUSES IN ORDER TO BREAK IT IN THE GARDEN WHICH HAD A LAMP OVERLOOKING IT </s>
<s> SINCE HARKER'S BUST WAS ONE IN THREE THE CHANCES WERE EXACTLY AS I TOLD YOU TWO TO ONE AGAINST THE PEARL BEING INSIDE IT THERE REMAINED TWO BUSTS AND IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT HE WOULD GO FOR THE LONDON ONE FIRST </s>
<s> I WARNED THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE SO AS TO AVOID A SECOND TRAGEDY AND WE WENT DOWN WITH THE HAPPIEST RESULTS </s>
<s> BY THAT TIME OF COURSE I KNEW FOR CERTAIN THAT IT WAS THE BORGIA PEARL THAT WE WERE AFTER </s>
<s> THE NAME OF THE MURDERED MAN LINKED THE ONE EVENT WITH THE OTHER </s>
<s> THERE ONLY REMAINED A SINGLE BUST THE READING ONE AND THE PEARL MUST BE THERE </s>
<s> I BOUGHT IT IN YOUR PRESENCE FROM THE OWNER AND THERE IT LIES </s>
<s> WE SAT IN SILENCE FOR A MOMENT </s>
<s> WELL SAID LESTRADE I'VE SEEN YOU HANDLE A GOOD MANY CASES MR. HOLMES BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT I EVER KNEW A MORE WORKMANLIKE ONE THAN THAT </s>
<s> WE'RE NOT JEALOUS OF YOU AT SCOTLAND YARD </s>
<s> NO SIR WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU AND IF YOU COME DOWN TO MORROW THERE'S NOT A MAN FROM THE OLDEST INSPECTOR TO THE YOUNGEST CONSTABLE WHO WOULDN'T BE GLAD TO SHAKE YOU BY THE HAND </s>
<s> QUOTE THANK YOU QUOTE SAID HOLMES </s>
<s> THANK YOU AND AS HE TURNED AWAY IT SEEMED TO ME THAT HE WAS MORE NEARLY MOVED BY THE SOFTER HUMAN EMOTIONS THAN I HAD EVER SEEN HIM </s>
<s> A MOMENT LATER HE WAS THE COLD AND PRACTICAL THINKER ONCE MORE </s>
<s> PUT THE PEARL IN THE SAFE WATSON SAID HE AND GET OUT THE PAPERS OF THE CONK SINGLETON FORGERY CASE </s>
<s> GOOD BYE LESTRADE </s>
<s> IF ANY LITTLE PROBLEM COMES YOUR WAY I SHALL BE HAPPY IF I CAN TO GIVE YOU A HINT OR TWO AS TO ITS SOLUTION </s>