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The Final Problem
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last
wo
in which I
sh
ever record the
sing
gi
by which my friend Mr.
Sher
Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I
ha
endeavored to give some
accou
of my
st
experiences in his company
fr
the chance which first brought us
to
at the period of the "Study in Scarlet," up to the
ti
of his
inte
in the matter of the "Naval Treaty"—and interference which had the unquestionable
effe
of preventing a serious international complication. It was my
in
to have
st
there, and to
ha
sa
no
of
th
event
whi
has created a
vo
in my life
wh
the lapse of two years has
do
litt
to fill. My hand has been forced, however, by the recent letters in
wh
Colonel James Moriarty
defen
the
memo
of his brother, and I have no choice but to lay the facts before the
pu
exact
as they occurred. I alone
kn
the
absolu
tr
of the matter, and I am satisfied that the time has come when on
go
purpose is to be served by its suppression. As far as I know,
the
ha
been only three accounts in the public press:
th
in the Journal de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuters dispatch in the
Engli
pape
on May 7th, and finally the recent
lett
to
wh
I have alluded. Of these the
fi
and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I
sha
now show, an absolute perversion of the facts. It lies
wi
me to
te
for the first time what really
to
place between Professor Moriarty and Mr. Sherlock Holmes. It may be remembered that after my marriage, and my subsequent start in private practice, the very
int
relations which had
ex
between Holmes and myself became to some
ext
modified. He still
ca
to me from time to time
wh
he
desi
a
com
in his investigation, but these occasions grew more and more seldom, until I find that in the year 1890 there were
on
three cases of which I retain any record. During the winter of
th
year and the
ea
spring of 1891, I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the
Fr
government upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes,
dat
from Narbonne and from Nimes, from which I gathered
th
his
st
in France was
lik
to be a long one.
