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There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania, I answered. There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ide fixe, which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man
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The development for which my friend had asked came in a quicker and an infinitely more tragic form than he could have imagined. I was still dressing in my bedroom next morning when there was a tap at the door and Holmes entered, a telegram in his han
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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. He was introduced to us as the owner of the houseMr. Ho
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It all seems to centre round that bust of Napoleon which I bought for this very room about four months ago. I picked it up cheap from Harding Brothers, two doors from the High Street Station. A great deal of my journalistic work is done at night, and
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Well, who was the murdered man? asked Holmes. There's nothing to show who he was, said Lestrade. You shall see the body at the mortuary, but we have made nothing of it up to now. He is a tall man, sunburned, very powerful, not more than thirty. He is
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I must try and make something of it, said he, though I have no doubt that the first editions of the evening papers are out already with full details. It's like my luck! You remember when the stand fell at Doncaster? Well, I was the only journalist in
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Well, that's likely enough. But I wish to call your attention very particularly to the position of this house in the garden of which the bust was destroyed. Lestrade looked about him. It was an empty house, and so he knew that he would not be disturb
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No doubt; and yet it is not quite the way in which I should approach the case. What would you do, then? Oh, you must not let me influence you in any way! I suggest that you go on your line and I on mine. We can compare notes afterwards, and each will
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Sherlock Holmes and I walked together to the High Street, where he stopped at the shop of Harding Brothers, whence the bust had been purchased. A young assistant informed us that Mr. Harding would be absent until after noon, and that he was himself a
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Well, that's all we could reasonably expect to get from Morse Hudson, said Holmes, as we emerged from the shop. We have this Beppo as a common factor, both in Kennington and in Kensington, so that is worth a ten-mile drive. Now, Watson, let us make f
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But the production of the photograph had a remarkable effect upon the manager. His face flushed with anger, and his brows knotted over his blue Teutonic eyes. Ah, the rascal! he cried. Yes, indeed, I know him very well. This has always been a respect
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The afternoon was far advanced before we were able to snatch a hasty luncheon at a restaurant. A news-bill at the entrance announced Kensington Outrage. Murder by a Madman, and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his accou
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Yes, sir, I have already read the account in the evening papers. Mr. Horace Harker is a customer of ours. We supplied him with the bust some months ago. We ordered three busts of that sort from Gelder Co., of Stepney. They are all sold now. To whom?
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Well? he asked. What luck, Mr. Holmes? We have had a very busy day, and not entirely a wasted one, my friend explained. We have seen both the retailers and also the wholesale manufacturers. I can trace each of the busts now from the beginning. The bu
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Excellent, Lestrade, excellent! he cried. But I didn't quite follow your explanation of the destruction of the busts. The busts! You never can get those busts out of your head. After all, that is nothing; petty larceny, six months at the most. It is
