Sherlock Holmes Investigates

Holmes said "Yes, of course. I must just take one look around." He looked carefully at the carpet and the window. "The man had very long legs. Either that or he was very active," Holmes said. "With that space underneath, it was very difficult for him to reach the ledge and open that window. Getting out again was easier, of course. Are you coming with us to see what is left of your bust, Mr. Harker?"

The journalist was sitting at a writing-table. He looked sad and upset

"I must try and do something with this," he said. "But I am sure that the first copies of all the evening papers have already got the full story. It's just my luck! You remember when place the spectators were standing fell at Doncaster racecourse? Well, I was the only journalist who was actually in the stand. Yet my newspaper was the only one that did not have the story, because I was too shaken to write it. And now I'll be too late to report on a murder that happened on my own doorstep."

As we left the room, we heard his pen squeaking over the writing paper.

The place where the bust had been broken was only a few hundred yards away. For the first time we saw one of the busts at the middle of the mystery. So this was what seemed to cause such terrible hatred in the mind of the unknown killer. The bits of bust lay scattered upon the grass, broken pieces. Holmes picked up several of these and looked at them carefully. He was thinking hard but seemed to know what he was doing. I was sure that he had found a clue at last.

"Well?" asked Lestrade.