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The Final Problem
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is with a heavy
he
that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I
dee
feel, an
entire
inade
fashion, I have endeavored to
gi
some account of my strange
experien
in his company
fr
the chance
wh
fi
brought us together at the period of the "Study in Scarlet," up to the time of his
in
in the
ma
of the "Naval Treaty"—and
interfe
which had the unquestionable
effe
of preventing a
seri
interna
complication. It was my
intent
to
ha
st
there, and to have said nothing of that
ev
which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done
li
to fill. My hand has been forced, however, by the recent letters in which
Colon
James Moriarty defends the
me
of his brother, and I
ha
no
cho
but to lay the
fac
be
the public
exact
as they occurred. I alone know the
abs
truth of the matter, and I am satisfied that the
ti
has
co
when on good
purp
is to be served by its suppression. As far as I know, there have been only
th
acco
in the public press:
th
in the Journal de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuters
di
in the
Engli
papers on May 7th, and finally the recent
lett
to which I have alluded. Of these the
fi
and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I
sha
now show, an
ab
pe
of the facts. It lies with me to tell for the first time what really took place
betwe
Profe
Mori
and Mr.
She
Holmes. It may be
re
that after my marriage, and my
su
start in private practice, the very
in
relati
wh
had
ex
between Holmes and myself became to some extent modified. He still came to me from
ti
to time
wh
he desired a
co
in his investigation, but
th
occasions grew more and
mo
seldom, until I
fi
th
in the year 1890
th
we
only three cases of which I retain any record. During the winter of
th
ye
and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the
pap
that he had been engaged by the
Fre
government upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes, dated
fr
Narbo
and from Nimes, from which I gathered
th
his
st
in
Fran
was
lik
to be a
lo
one.
