Thank God you have come. Because of my injuries, I cannot bear to talk for long, so please listen, and Beddows will answer questions for me."

"I have been on the trail of an occult artifact of great malevolence, the Sedefkar Sumulacrum. This is, indeed the artifacts I was telling you about the night of the banquet. It is a statue, a source of great magical power. Evil power."

"At the end of the eighteenth century it was taken apart, and the pieces scattered across Europe. I planned to take you with me to retrieve the peices and destroy it."

"Last night Beddows and I were attacked in our home by Turkish madmen. I think they too seek the simulacrum, but for foul purposes. We barricaded ourselves indoors, so they tried to burn us alive, but we got away. I am afriad to come out of hiding, for these men would stop at nothing. Beddows has a plan for us to escape, but the less said of that the better."

"My notes were destroyed in the fire, unless the Turks have them. They must not be allowed to recover the statue. I ask you, my friends, to collect it before they can reach it."

"Here is what I remember of my researches:

"Paris was where the statue was dismembered. The owner was a noble, Comte Fenalik, who lost it just prior to the French Revolution. Some part of it may still be in France."

"Napoleon's soldiers carried a piece into Venice when they invaded that city. It was sold to Alvise de Gremanci."

"ANother fragment made its way to Triest at the same time. I don't know what became of it, but look up Johann Winckelmann at the museum there.

I think there may be a piece in Serbia. Start at the Belgrade Museum, Dr. Milovan Todorovic is the curator."

"One part was lost near Sofia during the Bulgarian War in 1875. At that time things of value were hidden from the invaders, so it may be buried somewhere."

"The final piece was in circulation in Paris just after the Great War, and was sold to someone from Milan. I don't know who."

"That is all I can tell you. You must try to collect it. When you have it, there is only one sure way to destroy it, and destroy it you must. You must. Take it back to its original home, a place in Constantinople known as the Shunned Mosque. There are niches there, in which it once lay. A ritual which will destroy it utterly is included in a set of documents known as the Sedefkar Scrolls, but I have been unable to consult them."

"I'm sorry, my friends. For you, for me, for us all. Please do this for me. Go. Go quickly. God help you."