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The Final Problem

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is wi a he heart that I take up my pen to write these the last wo in wh I shall ever record the singular gifts by wh my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entire inadequate fashion, I have endeavored to give some account of my strange experiences in his comp from the cha wh first brought us to at the period of the "Study in Scarlet," up to the time of his interference in the matter of the "Naval Treaty"—and interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a ser international complication. It was my intention to have stopped there, and to have sa nothing of th eve which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two ye has done lit to fill. My hand has be forced, however, by the recent le in which Colonel Ja Moriarty defen the mem of his brother, and I ha no choice but to lay the fac before the publ exactly as they occurred. I alone know the absolu truth of the matter, and I am satis that the ti has come wh on good purpose is to be served by its suppression. As far as I know, there ha been only th accounts in the public press: th in the Jou de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuters dispat in the En papers on May 7th, and finally the recent letter to which I have alluded. Of these the fi and second were extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute perversion of the facts. It li with me to tell for the fir time what real to place betw Professor Moriarty and Mr. Sherlock Holmes. It may be remembered that aft my marriage, and my su start in private practice, the ve intimate relations whi had exist between Holmes and myself became to so extent modified. He still ca to me fr ti to ti when he des a co in his investigation, but th occasions grew more and more seldom, until I fi that in the year 1890 the were only th cases of which I retain any record. During the wint of that ye and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the French government up a matter of supr importance, and I recei two notes from Holmes, dated from Narbonne and from Nimes, fr which I ga that his st in France was likely to be a lo one.