1891 began, and life for me was calm and happy. I was working hard, and I had little time to spend with Holmes. Jack the Ripper was a thing of the past, as forgotten as yesterday's newspapers, as dead as the women he had murdered. But Jack was not dead He was only resting, and his rest would soon be over.
Death at the Reichenbach Falls
In February 1891 a woman called Flora White was killed with a knife in Whitechapel. Everyone thought that the murderer was Jack the Ripper. I alone knew that this was not true. I was sure that Jack' had not killed the last two women to die on the streets of Whitechapel. Soon after this, Holmes left for France. He sent me a strange letter from there which worried me very much. I could not understand a word of it and began to wonder if he was taking cocaine again. This was his letter:
If you remember the Berlin case of one in three', Watson, everything will be clear to you because the famous German professor in Paris is no longer alive. I heard he was recently killed while studying flora in the White Mountains of my favourite island. Letters and books are appearing soon. Read them quickly but carefully, as I cannot always follow or