Only now, at the end
of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those missing links
which make up the whole of that remarkable chain. The crime was
of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me
compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the
greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.
Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as
I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy,
amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind.
Let me say to that public which has shown some interest in those
glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts
and actions of a very remarkable man that they are not to blame
me if I have not shared my knowledge with them, for I should
have considered it my first duty to have done so had I not been
barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was
only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes
had interested me deeply in crime, and that after his
disappearance I never failed to read with care the various
problems which came before the public, and I even attempted more
than once for my own private satisfaction to employ his methods
in their solution, though with indifferent success.
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