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Thad known and worked with Sherlock Holmes for almost four years when I first met Arthur Conan Doyle ~ ACD I always called him, Like me, he was a doctor, and we quickly became good friends, He told me amusing stories of hospital life, and I told him about my life as an army doctor in Afghanistan. 1 often talked to him about Sherlock Holmes. At that ume ‘most poople had never heard of him. Only the police and some ‘criminals knew what a great detective he was. ACD seemed to ‘enjoy my stories very mich. He was never too tired to hear about another of Holmes's cases, We met many tmes and enjoyed many good dinners together before I realized that ACD had a special anterest in Holmes. He wanted to be a wnter, and had already enjoyed a litle success. Now he wanted to wate about Holmes, using the facts of a real case, but adding his own ideas to the story. 1 found this an excellent idea. 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He is clearly not interested in facts.” “Holmes, I said as calmly as I could, a writer does not just report facts, He must make sure that the story is mteresting to read. 1am sure you understand that.” Holmes smiled at me sweety. “My deat fellow,’ he said. ‘I forget. You know all about fine whiting, How stupid of me to worry about a few careless mistakes! But your friend Mr Doyle has shown that he does not ‘understand how important my work 1s. He thinks that the nals [ight against are stupid, miserable little beings. They are nor. I ight against evil itself. He has failed to understand that. The book 1s worthless, Away with it, and with your friend, the wnter!” I wondered what to say to ACD, but there was no need to worry. A Study in Scarlet was not a success, and he began to ‘write about other things. Several years later he decided to write about Holmes again, butat that ime! had other things to think about. [had fallen in love with Miss Mary Morstan, When she agreed to become my wife, [hurried to tell Holmes. Iwas full oF happiness. 1 can still hear the cold surprise in his voice as he said, ‘I cannot pretend to be happy about this. This hurt me terribly, but I tried to laugh. “Well, Holmes,’ I said, ‘I hope you won't be too lonely when 6 =m a Thad fallen m love with Miss Mary Morstan. 1 g0 home to my wife’ A shadow passed over his face. “Oh no, Watson,’ he said. ‘I still have my cocaine-botle. Was he asking me for help? Was it still possible, then, to save hum? Pethaps. 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Women like that are murdered every week. But why does this killer cut them up? Why rip the bodies to preces with a knife? That isthe question \winich makes this ease so exciting!” If anvone can stop these terrible murders, Holmes 1s that ‘man, I thought. This ease could become his greatest success. At that moment somebody knocked at the door. “Ah, come m, Inspector,’ Holmes said. ‘I understand you have finally decided to ask meto help youcatch this Whitechapel rmurclerer." Inspector Lestrade did not look very pleased. ‘Not at all, Mr Hlolmes, he said. ‘I was just passing Baker Street, and I know you find these cases interesting, “How kind!’ Holmes said. ‘Please tellus. When did you arrest the killer? Lam alittle sad, [ must say, to find that you have done reall without me. “We haven't arrested anyone yet,’ Lestrade said, ‘but I am very hopeful, Mr Holmes. You see, Ihave in my pocket a letter from the killer himself. The smile left Holmes's face. He was suddenly serious. “May I see the letter?" he asked, Je was wnitren in red, and the name at the bottom was ‘Jack the Ripper . I still remember something of what 1 said: Tove my work. My knife 1s mice and ready forthe next job. can’t watt to 1p again. Holmes turned to Lestrade. ‘What are you doing to stop this murderer? he asked, ‘Ie 1s clear that he will kill again ‘very soon, 10 “May t see the letter?” Holmes asked. “Bvery extra policeman that we have will be in Whitechapel ‘at might,’ Lestrade said. ‘And we have a litte surprise for Jack the Ripper.’ He looked at us importantly. ‘Some of our best and bravest policemen will be dressed in women’s clothes, he said. “We will stop at nothing to catch this enminal” “There wasa moment's silence, Then Holmes and I looked at ‘one another and we both began to laugh. We could not stop. Lestrade turned very red. ‘I see you are amused by murder, he said. ‘You do not wish to work with us, Well, [am a busy man. I must leave you. Goodbye, Mr Holmes. Goodbye, doctor. 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I stared at him n horror, and decided that | would never leave -r anc a good sleep. Moriarty wishes to destroy me. He 1 lenlot fackethe Ripper kills again ed gy On Monday night Whitechapel was full of policemen, all ready to catch Jack the Ripper. Nothing happened. Only Lestrade enjoyed ths “You have failed, Mr Holmes,” he said. ‘Your idea was very clever, but you made one mistake. You forget to tell the rmurdesee about i! Holes and I took a cab back to Baler Steet. We were both too uredcotalkthen, but later that day Isai ‘Holmes, whatdid happen? What went wrong?” 2 Jack the Ripper kills again ‘We did not really fail. Moriarty could not kill anyone because we were there. But I badly wanted to catch him at his work, and there I failed.” “le was there, then?” “Hie was there. He saw what (had done, and realized that he could not kill a woman that night. “Then you did not fail! We have beaten him. Holmes shook hus head siowly. “No, Watson. We have not beaten tum yet. Think how angry he must be! [have stopped him once, and now he will try harder to kill me. He will go on with his planned murders, and he will do everything possible to make sure that he succeeds. ‘But Holmes, how do we... “Remember, he kills, waits a week, kills again and then waits three weeks. So he will kill again next weekend. I must talk to Lestrade. But tomight, Watson, we shall armuse ourselves at the theatre, He would say no mose, but chat night, while we were atthe theatre, he disappeared from my side without a word. I did not ‘even see hum leave, and for several days T neither saw bim nor heard from him Then, at dinner time on the might when we iad hoped to catch Jack the Ripper at his work, he suddenly appeated again in Baker Street ‘Holmes!’ I cried. ‘Where have you been?” ‘Don’t worry, old fellow.’ He sat down by the fire. ‘I have been keeping Moniarty busy and playing games with him. He has chased me all over the country, but, as you sec, Tam still alive, I shall tell you my adventures some other time. 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But I had never seen women like these. Holmes stopped several to ‘question and to warn them, and I looked at their Faces carefully ‘They were old athe age of ewenty, ditty, diseased and hopeless. (One thing was clear ro me they were not like other women. Does it matter [ began fo think, if Jack the Ripper kills women. like these? Death by his knife 1s quick. It cannot be worse than the low and painful death from disease which most often ends their short lives. ‘Wereturned to the police station afterone o'clock. Iwas tired and sick at heart. Lestrade did not stop talking, tellingus that we should catch no murderers that mght. Suddenly, Holmes pumped up and walked out nto the street. I followed him. ‘Stay side, Watson, he said. “Youare ned, deat fellow, and you cannot help me. ‘Tam coming with you,’ I said, ‘Nothing will stop me. “Come, then, But we must hurry. Morrarty near. [can feel it Te began to rain. He walked fast and I almost had to run to keep up with him, His eves moved restlesay from side to side, Suddenly he stopped, and stared into the darkness. “Twice, Watson,’ he said softly. “He will kill wice tonight. ‘We stopped him killing a woman last time, s0 he must kill two tonight’ Before I could answer, he was moving again. Then he stopped, and pulled me unto a dark comer. Someone was coming towards us. 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I was asleep for two hours. AsT woke up, cold and uncomfortable, Holmes's words came back to me, “He wil kill twice tomighe. Tran to the window, aftaid of what T should see. At first I could not understand what terrible thing had happened there, ‘Was t possible, wondered, for a person to exploxie? There was blood everywhere. Ther I recognized the body as the woman who Thad seen drinkang and ralking with Sherlock Holmes, He ‘was sill wieh her, but he was not dead. No, much worse than dead, He was alive. He had a knife in his hand, and he was cutung up her face and her body. Even as I watehed, he was carefully cutting the leg down to the bone, taking off long piece of meat sn bis other hand. [And as be cut the woman to pieces, he was singing Moriarty is dead Asa soldier and a doctor, I know that a man who 1s very badly hurt in battle often feels no pain. If he lives, he remembers nothing about what has happened to him, After that terrible night an Whitechapel, I was like that man. 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We had to keep the worst thing of all out of the newspapers, but [can tell you. The girl was pregnant. He cut her up, and he cut up the baby, to0.” I felt a cold hand touch me. ‘He will kill rwice tonight. “What did you sav?” “Oh, nothing. What are you doing to catch hum? “What can we do? Nobody heard a scream or saw anvebing, He looked again at the telegram. ‘Who is this “M”® he asked. “Oh, he just means the murderer,’ I sai. After Lestrade left tied hard to think of some other way of explaining what I hae seen that night. Thad seen Holmes cutting, up the body, but Ihad not seen him kil the girl How could my dear friend possibly be this terrible killer? Perhaps it was all part of some clever plan that I did not understand. For some days I thought I had found an answer to the problem, but then a telegram arnved from Holmes, who was Switzerland. Irsaid, ‘M isno more, Returning Saturday. Holmes. Suddenly realized that I was afraid of seeing him again, and my worry returned, stronger than ever. Was he the killer or not? Thad to know the truth—and quickly. To help me think clearly, Lwrote down what I knew. Is Sherlock Holmes the Whitechapel murderer? ‘The arguments for 1. He was in Whitechapel on the nights of the murders, and alone at the right mes. 2. When he was out of London or was with bim, there were no murders. 34 | 3 He can change his appearance easily. 4. Hestudied medicine. He could easily cut up a body in the dark. 5 He knows the lanes and yards of Whitechapel wel. 6 He can escape from the police because he knows thett plans ~ indeed, he makes their plans. The arguments agamst 1 He spends his life fighting enime. 2. Tknow my friend. I know he could not do these things. ‘When I read what I had written, I began to wonder how well I knew Holmes. Did he really fight against crime? He took cases because they interested him, not because he hated crime, It was all just a game to tum, He fought crime to amuse himself. Tt was now late at night. I was terribly tired, but I knew that Thad to decide what to do before Holmes came back. Suddenly, as I lay back sn my chair, half-asleep, the terrible picture of Holmes cutting up that gil’s body appeared again before my eyes. Then, finally, I knew. It was not what I had seen hitm do, but bow he had done it. That look of cool amusement on his face. The way he sang as he worked. The man who could do that could do anything. Next day I packed my bags and moved into a hotel. That evening I asked Mary to have dinner with me. I told her that I could not sleep while she lived alone im London and the Whitechapel murderer was free to kill again, I asked het 10 _marty mesooner chan we had planned. She laughed and said she ‘was not aftaid of the murderer. He never killed women like her. 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Mary and finished our holiday and moved to house in London, not far from Baker Stree. I was busy with my work as a doctor, and we lived quietly and happily together. Dunng this trme was sent two wonderful letters by Holmes. He had brought his work on the Russian mystery to a successful end, and had gone from Russia to Ceylon, where the sudden death of a rich tea-planter offered him the interest and excitement he needed. The Holmes who wrote these letters to ‘me sounded like the old Holmes that I knew. “Hee 1s dangerous when he is bored and uses cocaine,’ I ‘thought. ‘When he 1s enjoving hs work, London is safe. (One day in March, as I walked along Baker Street, I saw a light in Holmes’s window, and knew that he had returned. I ‘went in, and he welcomed me like the dear old friend he had been, All evening we sat by the fire, and he told me everything that had happened in Russia and Geyion. But what I really ‘wanted to hear about was Moriarty’s death, and about that he said not one word. At ast I could wait no longer. ‘My dear Holmes,’ said. itis almost midnight, and you still have not tokd me how Monarty died!” ‘At once his face went white, and his eves became fixed in a stare. He sat silent and unmoving, as the seconds passed. Then he said, ‘Pm sorry, Watson. I was thinking about something to do with my last case. What did you say?" ‘Moriarty,’ I repeated, “You have not told me how he died.” “He has gone,’ he said. That sall that anyone needs to know about him. 38 Moraarty 1s dead “He bas gone,’ Holmes said. 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Thad to watch Holmes all the time, I decided to use the cocame he had. piven me. T added water to the drug and put wt into a medicine bottle. Then I injected some into my arm, Tt wastme to look non Holmes, As T opened the door, I saw that his bed was empty. He was behind the door. He ried to hit ‘me, but the drug made me quick, and I jumped out of the way ‘Watson!’ he cried. ‘Dear fellow! I thought you were Moriarty. One of his men 1s in your garden, We must go now! It's too dangerous to stay here!’ ‘The man who he had seen was William, my gardener. ‘will go and pack,’ I said. “No luggage! He must not know what we are doing!” ‘Let me take my doctor's bag,’ said. “He will think that Tam ‘going to vist a patient. “Excellent!” Holmes said, ‘I had the same idea myself. He did not know that I had packed the cocaine, moner and agun in my doctor’s bag. Holmes sent me out before him to find a cab. We drove through the streets, jumped out of the ea, ran some way, and found another cab. 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I screamed. “You're mad, doctor,’ he said. ‘And you're talking rubbish, Go on, shoot me?” { shot him. I shot again and again, but sill he stood there Finally, [fell to the ground, Icould not move. Itseemed a long ‘ume before I could say, “Why aren't you dead?” I seared up at himas he stood above me, calmly inhaling snuff from huis snutffbox, 50 Death at the Rerchenbach Falls “Ltook the bullets from your gun and put in blanks,” he said conversationally. “Tell me, Moriarty, when did you kill ‘Watson? You are very clever. You look almost like him, but I know who you are, When T saw you mecting cocaine three times a day, 1 knew then for sure that you were not my dear frend, Dr Watson would never, never take drugs. Your cocaine 15 finished, isn’t it? Poor Moriarty! 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Twent immediately tothe ‘empty house, where I burned the papers and destroyed the jars wanted to be sure that nobody would ever know the evil things ‘that Holmes had done, I wanted only the good that was in my friend to live om afier his death. was lucky, ACD had been busy writing more stones about Holmes. These stories were an immediate success. ACD became a famous writer, and people who had never met Holmes the man, knew Holmes the story-book detective. As the years passed. people began to forget that Sherlock Holmes had ever been a real person. After Hoimes's death my life was difficult for a long time. It was two years before I could live without cocaine. | could not work, and my wife and I had little money. ‘My story 1s at an end. Since Holmes’s death I have lived ‘quietly. But sometimes, a Ist by the fire in the evening, [ think of chat day at the Reichenbach Falls. 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