And the Yeah, This popular Sherlock Holmes story has been adapted for theater and television and is classic Sherlock Holmes.

As with many of author Conan Doyle's stories involving Holmes, the narrator Holmes' good friend Watson brings us into the story.

And now the adventure of the Devil's Foote, Part 1.

In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting

recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr.

Sherlock Holmes. I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to publicity.

To his somber and cynical spirit, all popular applause was always abhorrent and nothing amused him more at the end of a successful

case than to hand over the actual exposure to some orthodox official and to listen with a mocking

smile to the general chorus of misplaced

congratulation. It was indeed this attitude upon the part of my friend and

certainly not any lack of interesting material which has caused me of late years to lay very few of my records before the public.

My participation in some of his adventures was always a privilege which entailed discretion and reticence upon me.

It was then with considerable surprise that I received a telegram from Holmes last Tuesday.

He has never been known to write where a telegram would serve. In the following terms, why not tell them of the Cornish horror, strangest case I have handled?

I have no idea what backwards sweep of memory had brought the matter fresh to his mind or what freak it caused him to desire that I should recount it.

But I hasten before another cancelling telegram may arrive to hunt out the notes which give me the exact details of the case and to lay the narrative before my readers.

It was then in the spring of the year 1897 that Holmes's iron constitution showed some symptoms of giving way in the face of constant hard work of a most exacting kind

aggravated perhaps by occasional indiscretions of his own.

In March of that year, Dr. Moore-A-Gar of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes, I may

someday recount, gave positive injunctions

that the famous private agent lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to

complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown.

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