"I thought this story would please you. But I have not finished yet. Dr. Barnicot went to his office at twelve o'clock today. When he arrived there he found that the window had been opened in the night. He was amazed to see the broken pieces of his second plaster head of Napoleon lying all over the room. The plaster head had been taken and smashed to little pieces. We still have no signs which could give us a clue about the criminal or madman who has done these things. Now, Mr. Holmes, I have told you all the facts."

"They are strange facts, indeed," said Holmes. "Very odd and disturbing. May I ask whether the two plaster heads smashed in Dr. Barnicot's rooms were exact copies of the one which was broken in Morse Hudson's shop?"

"They were made at exactly the same time and place." said Lestrade

"So the man who is doing this is probably not doing it just because he hates Napoleon. There must be hundreds of statues of the great Emperor in London. I do not think that our mad statue-smasher just accidentally decided to begin with three exact copies of the same statue. It is too much of a coincidence."