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The Final Problem
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is with a
he
hea
that I
ta
up my pen to
wri
these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr.
Sherl
Hol
was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I
deep
feel, an
entir
inadequate fashion, I
ha
endeavored to
gi
some account of my strange
experi
in his
com
from the chance which first brought 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
pre
a
seri
internation
complication. It was my
inte
to have
stopp
there, and to have said nothing of
th
ev
which has created a
vo
in my life which the lapse of two years has
do
li
to fill. My
ha
has been forced, however, by the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty
defen
the memory of his brother, and I have no choice but to lay the facts before the public exactly as they occurred. I alone know the absolute truth of the matter, and I am
sa
that the
ti
has come when on
go
purpose is to be
ser
by its suppression. As far as I know, there have
be
on
three accounts in the public press: that in the
Jour
de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuters dispatch in the English papers on May 7th, and finally the
re
letter to which I have alluded. Of these the first and
se
we
extremely condensed, while the last is, as I shall now show, an absolute
pe
of the facts. It lies with me to tell for the first time what really took place between
Profess
Moriarty and Mr. Sherlock Holmes. It may be remembered that
af
my marriage, and my
sub
st
in
pr
practice, the
ve
intimate relations which had
exis
between Holmes and myself
be
to some extent modified. He
sti
came to me
fr
time to
ti
when he
des
a
compan
in his investigation, but these occasions grew more and more seldom, until I find that in the
ye
1890
th
we
only
thr
cases of which I retain any record. During the
wi
of that year and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the
pap
that he had been
enga
by the French
go
upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes, dated
fr
Narbonne and from Nimes,
fr
which I gathered
th
his
st
in France was
like
to be a long one.