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And
yet
for
all
his
watchfulness
he
was
never
depressed
.
On
the
contrary
,
I
can
never
recollect
having
seen
him
in
such
exuberant
spirits
.
Again
and
again
he
recurred
to
the
fact
that
if
he
could
be
assured
that
society
was
freed
from
Professor
Moriarty
he
would
cheerfully
bring
his
own
career
to
a
conclusion
.
"
I
think
that
I
may
go
so
far
as
to
say
,
Watson
,
that
I
have
not
lived
wholly
in
vain
,
"
he
remarked
.
"
If
my
record
were
closed
to-night
I
could
still
survey
it
with
equanimity
.
The
air
of
London
is
the
sweeter
for
my
presence
.
In
over
a
thousand
cases
I
am
not
aware
that
I
have
ever
used
my
powers
upon
the
wrong
side
.
Of
late
I
have
been
tempted
to
look
into
the
problems
furnished
by
nature
rather
than
those
more
superficial
ones
tor
which
our
artificial
state
of
society
is
responsible
.
Your
memoirs
will
draw
to
an
end
,
Watson
,
upon
the
day
that
I
crown
my
career
by
the
capture
or
extinction
of
the
most
dangerous
and
capable
criminal
in
Europe
.
"
I
shall
be
brief
,
and
yet
exact
,
in
the
little
which
remains
for
me
to
tell
.
It
is
not
a
subject
on
which
I
would
willingly
dwell
,
and
yet
I
am
conscious
that
a
duty
devolves
upon
me
to
omit
no
detail
.
It
was
on
the
third
of
May
that
we
reached
the
little
village
of
Meiringen
,
where
we
put
up
at
the
Englischer
Hof
,
then
kept
by
Peter
Steiler
the
elder
.
Our
landlord
was
an
intelligent
man
and
spoke
excellent
English
,
having
served
for
three
years
as
waiter
at
the
Grosvenor
Hotel
in
London
.
At
his
advice
,
on
the
afternoon
of
the
fourth
we
set
off
together
,
with
the
intention
of
crossing
the
hills
and
spending
the
night
at
the
hamlet
of
Rosenlaui
.
We
had
strict
injunctions
,
however
,
on
no
account
to
pass
the
falls
of
Reichenbach
,
which
are
about
halfway
up
the
hills
,
without
making
a
small
detour
to
see
them
.
It
is
,
indeed
,
a
fearful
place
.
The
torrent
,
swollen
by
the
melting
snow
,
plunges
into
a
tremendous
abyss
,
from
which
the
spray
rolls
up
like
the
smoke
from
a
burning
house
.
The
shaft
into
which
the
river
hurls
itself
is
an
immense
chasm
,
lined
by
glistening
coal-black
rock
,
and
narrowing
into
a
creaming
,
boiling
pit
of
incalculable
depth
,
which
brims
over
and
shoots
the
stream
onward
over
its
jagged
lip
.
The
long
sweep
of
green
water
roaring
forever
down
,
and
the
thick
flickering
curtain
of
spray
hissing
forever
upward
,
turn
a
man
giddy
with
their
constant
whirl
and
clamour
.
We
stood
near
the
edge
peering
down
at
the
gleam
of
the
breaking
water
far
below
us
against
the
black
rocks
,
and
listening
to
the
half-human
shout
which
came
booming
up
with
the
spray
out
of
the
abyss
.
The
path
has
been
cut
halfway
round
the
fall
to
afford
a
complete
view
,
but
it
ends
abruptly
,
and
the
traveller
has
to
return
as
he
came
.
We
had
turned
to
do
so
,
when
we
saw
a
Swiss
lad
come
running
along
it
with
a
letter
in
his
hand
.
It
bore
the
mark
of
the
hotel
which
we
had
just
left
and
was
addressed
to
me
by
the
landlord
.
It
appeared
that
within
a
very
few
minutes
of
our
leaving
,
an
English
lady
had
arrived
who
was
in
the
last
stage
of
consumption
.
She
had
wintered
at
Davos
Platz
and
was
journeying
now
to
join
her
friends
at
Lucerne
,
when
a
sudden
hemorrhage
had
overtaken
her
.
It
was
thought
that
she
could
hardly
live
a
few
hours
,
but
it
would
be
a
great
consolation
to
her
to
see
an
English
doctor
,
and
,
if
I
would
only
return
,
etc.
.
The
good
Steiler
assured
me
in
a
postscript
that
he
would
himself
look
upon
my
compliance
as
a
very
great
favour
,
since
the
lady
absolutely
refused
to
see
a
Swiss
physician
,
and
he
could
not
but
feel
that
he
was
incurring
a
great
responsibility
.
The
appeal
was
one
which
could
not
be
ignored
.
It
was
impossible
to
refuse
the
request
of
a
fellow-countrywoman
dying
in
a
strange
land
.
Yet
I
had
my
scruples
about
leaving
Holmes
.
It
was
finally
agreed
,
however
,
that
he
should
retain
the
young
Swiss
messenger
with
him
as
guide
and
companion
while
I
returned
to
Meiringen
.
My
friend
would
stay
some
little
time
at
the
fall
,
he
said
,
and
would
then
walk
slowly
over
the
hill
to
Rosenlaui
,
where
I
was
to
rejoin
him
in
the
evening
.
As
I
turned
away
I
saw
Holmes
,
with
his
back
against
a
rock
and
his
arms
folded
,
gazing
down
at
the
rush
of
the
waters
.
It
was
the
last
that
I
was
ever
destined
to
see
of
him
in
this
world
.
