Holmes took a paper from his pocket and laid a ten-pound note upon the table. You will kindly sign that paper, Mr. Sandeford, in the presence of these witnesses. It is simply to say that you transfer every possible right that you ever had in the bust...
Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here? My friend bowed and smiled. Mr. Sandeford, of Reading, I suppose? said he. Yes, sir, I fear that I am a little late; but the trains were awkward. You wrote to me about a bust that is in my possession. Exactly. I have your...
That's all right, said Lestrade, as we parted. Hill knows all these gentry, and he will give a name to him. You'll find that my theory of the Mafia will work out all right. But I'm sure I am exceedingly obliged to you, Mr. Holmes, for the workmanlike...
But it was not our prisoner to whom Holmes was giving his attention. Squatted on the doorstep, he was engaged in most carefully examining that which the man had brought from the house. It was a bust of Napoleon like the one which we had seen that mor...
I fear that you'll have a long wait, Holmes whispered. We may thank our stars that it is not raining. I don't think we can even venture to smoke to pass the time. However, it's a two to one chance that we get something to pay us for our trouble. It p...
Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed. When at last he descended it was with triumph in his eyes, but he said nothing to either of us as to the result of his resear...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
