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The Final Problem
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is with a heavy heart
th
I
ta
up my pen to write these the last
wo
in
wh
I shall
ev
reco
the singular gifts by
wh
my friend Mr.
Sherl
Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an
ent
inadequate fashion, I
ha
endeavored to
gi
some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chance which first
bro
us together at the period of the "Study in Scarlet," up to the time of his interference in the
matt
of the "Naval Treaty"—and interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication. It was my
inte
to
ha
stopped there, and to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has
do
litt
to fill. My hand has been forced, however, by the
rece
letters in which Colonel
Ja
Moriarty
def
the
mem
of his brother, and I have no choice but to lay the facts before the
publ
exa
as they occurred. I alone know the absolute truth of the matter, and I am
satisf
that the time has
co
when on good
purpo
is to be served by its suppression. As far as I know, there have been
on
three accounts in the public press: that in the Journal de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuters dispatch in the English papers on May 7th, and
fi
the recent letter to which I have alluded. Of
th
the first and second
we
extrem
condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the facts. It
li
with me to tell for the first
ti
wh
really
to
place
bet
Prof
Moriarty and Mr.
Sherl
Holmes. It may be remembered that after my marriage, and my subsequent start in private practice, the very
intima
relations which had
ex
between Holmes and myself
be
to some
exte
modified. He
sti
came to me
fr
time to time
wh
he
de
a
compani
in his investigation, but
th
occasions
gr
more and
mo
seldom, until I find
th
in the
ye
1890 there were only
thr
cases of which I retain any record.
Dur
the winter of
th
year and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the French government
up
a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes,
dat
from
Na
and from Nimes,
fr
which I gathered that his
st
in France was likely to be a
lo
one.