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The Final Problem
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is
wi
a heavy
he
that I
ta
up my pen to write these the
la
words in
whi
I shall
ev
record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an
enti
inadequate fashion, I have
ende
to
gi
some account of my strange experiences in his
compa
from the chance which first
broug
us together at the period of the "Study in Scarlet," up to the time of his
interf
in the
mat
of the "Naval Treaty"—and
int
which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious
interna
complication. It was my intention to have
stop
there, and to have said
nothi
of that event which has created a void in my
li
which the lapse of two
ye
has done
li
to fill. My hand has been forced, however, by the
re
letters in which Colonel
Ja
Moriarty defends the memory of his brother, and I
ha
no choice but to lay the facts
be
the public exactly as they occurred. I alone know the absolute truth of the matter, and I am satisfied
th
the time has come when on good purpose is to be served by its suppression. As far as I know,
the
have been
on
three accounts in the
publ
press: that in the Journal de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuters dispatch in the
Engli
papers on May 7th, and finally the recent letter to which I have alluded. Of
th
the first and second were
ext
condensed, while the
la
is, as I shall now show, an
abso
perversion of the facts. It
li
wi
me to
te
for the
fi
time what really took place
be
Pr
Moriarty and Mr. Sherlock Holmes. It may be
remembe
th
af
my marriage, and my subsequent
sta
in private practice, the very intimate relations which had
exist
betw
Holmes and myself
be
to some extent modified. He still came to me from
ti
to time when he
desi
a companion in his investigation, but
th
occasions grew more and more seldom, until I find that in the year 1890
the
were
on
three
ca
of which I retain any record.
Duri
the winter of
th
ye
and the early
spr
of 1891, I saw in the papers
th
he had
be
engaged by the
Fr
government upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two
no
from Holmes, dated from Narbonne and
fr
Nimes, from which I gathered that his stay in
Fran
was likely to be a long one.
