SERGEANT BATES’S JOURNEY FINISHES IN LONDON AMID A REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION--HIS GIFT TO MADAME TUSSAUD’S 164 CHAPTER XXII MY FIRST MODEL--BEACONSFIELD’S CURL--GLADSTONE’S COLLAR--JOHN BRIGHT AND THE CHINAMAN 171 CHAPTER XXIII THE TICHBORNE “CLAIMANT”--NEARLY AN EXPLOSION--THE BIG MAN’S CLOTHES--THE REAL HEIR--THE CLAIMANT’S RELEASE FROM PRISON--CONFESSION AND DEATH 177 CHAPTER XXIV H. M. STANLEY SITS TO JOSEPH TUSSAUD--THE STORY OF HIS LIFE--HOW HE FOUND LIVINGSTONE--A MYSTERIOUS VEILED LADY--THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 181 CHAPTER XXV COUNT LÉON--THE SHAH OF PERSIA’S VISIT--A WEIRD SUGGESTION; NO RESPONSE--KING KOFFEE--CETEWAYO 184 CHAPTER XXVI THE BERLIN CONGRESS--LORD BEACONSFIELD AND THE “TURNERELLI WREATH”--“THE PEOPLE’S TRIBUTE” FINDS A HOME AT TUSSAUD’S--THE SCULPTOR’S DESPAIR--HE CONSTRUCTS HIS TOMBSTONE AND DIES 190 CHAPTER XXVII THE PHŒNIX PARK MURDERS--WE SECURE THE JAUNTING-CAR AND PONY--CHARLES BRADLAUGH--GENERAL BOULANGER--LORD ROBERTS INSPECTS THE MODEL OF HIMSELF 197 CHAPTER XXVIII MY FAVOURITE PORTRAIT--LORD TENNYSON POSES UNCONSCIOUSLY BEFORE MY WIFE--“THIS BEATS TUSSAUD’S”--SIR RICHARD BURTON--HIS WIDOW CLOTHES THE MODEL 203 CHAPTER XXIX REMOVAL OF THE EXHIBITION TO THE PRESENT BUILDING--SLEEPING FIGURES--HISTORY OF THE PORTMAN ROOMS--THE CATO STREET CONSPIRACY--BARON GRANT’S STAIRCASE 208 CHAPTER XXX THE KING OF SIAM’S VISIT--THE SHAHZADA’S CLOTHING--THE KING OF BURMAH’S WAR ELEPHANT--TALE OF TWO MONKEYS 215 CHAPTER XXXI QUEEN VICTORIA’S COPPERPLATES--ANOTHER ROYAL PERSIAN VISIT--“PERISHED BY FIRE”--“VISCOUNT HINTON” AND HIS ORGAN--THE COQUETTE’S JEWELS LOST AND FOUND 220 CHAPTER XXXII ROYAL VISITORS--KING ALPHONSO AND PRINCESS ENA--THE LATE EMPEROR FREDERICK--A PENNILESS TRIO--PRINCESS CHARLES--THE PRINCE OF WALES AND PRINCE ALBERT 225 CHAPTER XXXIII THE BEGUM OF BHOPAL PAYS US A VISIT--LORD ROSEBERY AND LORD ANNALY--LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL--LADY BEATTY--LADY JELLICOE AND MRS. ASQUITH 231 CHAPTER XXXIV