Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance.

When Lestrade praises the detective, Holmes shows an appreciative and joyful reaction, which Watson notes: '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.' Finally he picked up his hunting-crop and struck Napoleon a sharp blow on the top of the head. Dr 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. He smashes it and finds, in the plaster fragments, the black pearl of the Borgias which had been stolen months ago by Lucrecia Venucci, Pietro's sister.

'You will kindly sign that paper, Mr Sandeford, in the presence of these witnesses. 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 gaol - once for a petty theft and once, as we had already heard, for stabbing a fellow-countryman. 'I don't attempt to do so. But it was not our prisoner to whom Holmes was giving his attention. It represented an alert, sharp-featured simian man with thick eyebrows, and a very peculiar projection of the lower part of the face like the muzzle of a baboon.

Holmes begs the manager not to talk to the cousin about Beppo. The matter is very important, and the farther I go with it the more important it seems to grow.

But Beppo was condemned to a year's imprisonment, and in the meanwhile his six busts were scattered over London. Carefully Holmes held each separate shard to the light, but in no way did it differ from any other shattered piece of plaster. It is of no consequence to us which is the correct solution.

Morse Hudson is one of the sellers of the Napoleon statues that are the unfortunate victims of a crime... Mr. Barnicot. Then I seized the poker and went downstairs When I entered this room I found the window wide open, and I at once observed that the bust was gone from the mantelpiece. I shall be surprised if we don't get some help down there.' When finished the busts were put on a table in the passage to dry, and afterwards stored. I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results.
'Hill knows all these gentry, and he will give a name to him. At the first shop, owned by a Mr. Hudson, Holmes and Watson learn that the three busts he sold came from Gelder's factory, and the merchant recognizes the man in the photograph: His name is Beppo, a former employee of his who had left only days before. This has always been a respectable establishment, and the only time that we have ever had the police in it was over this very fellow.

I am a methodical man, you see, and you never know what turn events might take afterwards. Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy city merchants we found the sculpture works for which we searched.

What steps do you propose to take now, Lestrade?'
Whether it was the weapon which did the deed, or whether it belonged to the dead man, I do not know. Learn more about how these characters fit into this puzzle of a mystery, each revealing a new clue so Sherlock Holmes can solve the crime. In half an hour we had reached Pitt Street, a quiet little backwater just beside one of the briskest currents of London life. But I have named that price, so I intend to stick to it.' In that case our friend the image-breaker has begun operations in another quarter of London. That was all he could tell us.

The man is not a lunatic, ...

In an instant, without the least sound to warn us of his coming, the garden gate swung open, and a lithe, dark figure, as swift and active as an ape, rushed up the garden path. Then suddenly, about five minutes later, there came a most horrible yell - the most dreadful sound, Mr Holmes, that ever I heard. Beppo was his name - his second name I never knew.

Holmes pointed to the street-lamp above our heads.



The story was adapted as a short silent film titled The Six Napoleons (1922) in the Stoll film series starring Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes. 'To remember it - to docket it.

But I have great hopes - in fact, the betting is exactly two to one - that if you will come with us tonight I shall be able to help you to lay him by the heels.'

Another bust has been smashed, this one purchased from a different merchant, named Harding. 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. The manager, a big blond German, received us civilly, and gave a clear answer to all Holmes's questions. Actor Role Jeremy Brett: Sherlock Holmes: Edward Hardwicke: Doctor Watson: Eric Sykes Horace Harker Colin Jeavons: Inspector Lestrade: Gerald Campion Morse Hudson Vincenzo Nicoli He lay on his back, his knees drawn up, and his mouth horribly open. 'That's all right,' said Lestrade, as we parted. There is no particular reason for keeping a watch upon that book. 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. 'In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson's shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr Barnicot, who has one of the largest practices upon the south side of the Thames.

That's what I said. Three - two and one are three - two of Dr Barnicot's and one smashed in broad daylight on my own counter. However, it's a two to one chance that we get something to pay us for our trouble.'

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.'

He is a tall man, sunburnt, very powerful, not more than thirty. Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast, and of no real value whatever. So it was to-day. Lestrade believes a madman is looting seemingly random locations to smash busts (statues) of Napoleon.


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