 It was believed that she had a brother in London who worked with her as a jewel thief. The fellow who was murdered two nights ago. As you say, Watson. I then recollected that the pearl had disappeared just two days before the arrest of the man Beppo for some crime of violence. The police were after him. He had the pearl in his possession. He may have stolen it from Venucci, or he may even have been Venucci's confederate. At any event, before the police arrived, he hid it in the only place he could think of in the moment. One of the wet plaster casts of a Napoleon head,