Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-22
TODAY'S INSTALMENT.

IpSlTdUc SidIbN.
"You don't seriously believe that?"
Holmes smiled.
Don't l? Well, perhaps ! don't.
But | am sure that it will interest
MIR. Horace Harker and the subscribers
of the Central Press Syndicate. Now,
Watson, / think that we shall find that
we have long and rather complex days
work before us. | should be glad,
Lestrade, if you could make it conven-
lent to meet us at Baker Street at six
O'Clock this evening. Until then should
like to keep this photograph, found in
the dead mans pocket. 1t is possible that
] may have to ask your company n nd
assistance upon small expedition
which will have to he undertaken to-
night, if my chain of reasoning should
prove to be correct. Until then, good
bye and good luckr
Sherlock Holmes and | walked to-
gcther to the High Street, where we
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 new
conner, who could give us no informa-
tion. Holmes face showed his disap-
poihtment and annoyance.
We'll, well, we can't expect to have
it all our own way, Watson" he said
at last. 1--WE must come back in the
afternoon, if Mr.. Harding will not
be here until then. | am, rs you have
no doubt surmised, endeavoring 10
tracs these busts to their source, in
order to find if there is not something
tnr hon
remarkable fate Let lis make for Mr.
and, see If he can throw any light upon
the problem"
A drive of an hour brought us tc
the picture-dealer's establishment HC
was a small stout man with red face
and a peppery manner.
eyes, sir. On my very counter, sir,
said he. What we pay rates and taxes
for ! don't know, when any ruffian car
come in and break ones goods. Yes, sil
it was | who sold DR.. Barnicot his two
statues Disgraceful, sir! A Nihilsi
plot that's what | make it. No one
but an anarchist would 60 about break
ing statues. Red republicans-that'
what | call 'em. Who did | get the
statues from? l don't see what thai
has to do with it. Well. if you really
want to know. l got them from Geldet
and Co, in Church Street, Stepney
They are a well-known house in tn,
trade, and have been this twenty years
How many had !? Three-two and on
are three-two of DR.. Barnicot's, anC
one smashed in broad daylight on m,
own counter. Do | know that photo
graph? No, | don't Yes, do, though
Why, it's Beppo. He was kind o
italian piece-work man, who made
himself useful in the shop. He coul,
carve bit and gid and frame, and d
odd Jobs The fellow left me last week
and I've heard nothing Of him since. Nc
! don't know where he came from no
where he went 10. had nothing agains
him while he was here. He was gone tw
days before the bust was smashed"
"Well, that's all we could REASONABLE
expect fror Morse Hudson" sal
Holmes, as emerged from the shoI
Eve have this Beppo as commo
factor, both in Remington and i
Kensington so that is worth ten-mil
drive. Now, Watkins, let US make fo
Gelder and Co., OF Stepney, the sourc
and origin of the busts ] shall be SUI
prised if we don't get some help dow
there"
In rapid succession We passed throug
The fringe of fashionable London, hot
London, theatrical London, and, final
maritime London, till we came to
riverside city of a hundred Nhousan
souls, where the tenement houses swelt,
md reek with the outcasts Of Europ
Here, in a broad thoroughfare, on,
the abode of wealthy city merchants, v
found the sculpture works for which v
searched. Out side was a considerab
yard full of monumental masonry. Il