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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
researches. For my own part, I had followed step by step the
methods by which he had traced the various windings of this
complex case, and, though I could not yet perceive the goal
which we would reach, I understood clearly that Holmes expected
this grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two
remaining busts, one of which, I remembered, was at Chiswick.
No doubt the object of our journey was to catch him in the very
act, and I could not but admire the cunning with which my friend
had inserted a wrong clue in the evening paper, so as to give
the fellow the idea that he could continue his scheme with
impunity. I was not surprised when Holmes suggested that
I should take my revolver with me. He had himself picked up
the loaded hunting-crop which was his favourite weapon.
A four-wheeler was at the door at eleven, and in it we drove to
a spot at the other side of Hammersmith Bridge.
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