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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.