It took me a month to master my deduction skills, during that month I met Mycroft, inspector Gregory in a case , and a young girl who was beautiful with the kindest heart. I have never fell so much in love with a girl , but I never got enough confidence to take her out. It wasn't till one morning when Holmes saw a section about maria smith who was kidnapped , I turned pale with fear. Then coming through the door came her parents who were almost as pale as I was, they begged Holmes to help get there daughter back and of course he was glad to help. After they left Holmes wired for Watson to come assist him in his case, then walked over to me and told me to stay at baker street till he came back, I obeyed and tried to get my mind off the matter when a telegram came to me which said " If you ever want to maria again you will go to the bar on wall street and wait for further instruction and come alone or we'll kill her " I immediately put my coat on and grabbed my fathers pistol and headed to the wall street bar. When I arrived I was dragged to the back room and beaten I lay there beaten getting ready to be shot when Holmes, Watson and lestrade came in and arrested the two villains who were part of Moriartys schemes. When Holmes was through with his investigation of the two men we headed to baker street. When we got in Holmes sat down and thought things over I did the same when Mrs Hudson came in with dinner I sat down at the table to eat when Watson announced he had to get home, we bid him goodbye Holmes went to the table to dinner when he asked me if I liked maria, I replied yes but now she's gone. Holmes patted my back and said we'll get her back, I knew he was wrong because whoever kidnapped her must of found out about Holmes and Watsons arrest I feared she would not be alive much longer after dinner I went to bed. I awoke late at night to find a letter on the floor which was pushed under the door. I opened it and read it it said" we left maria alive but you have one more chance, meet us at Charlie's lane to surrender yourself to us and we'll let you give her instructions on to where to go ( not the police department) come alone no guns no knives " I grabbed my coat and went to Charlie's lane I found three men and a coach I walked over they motioned her to go she came and I told to go to baker street and get Holmes she ran quickly to baker street they tied my hands together and rode off to big Ben they dragged me up to the top and told me to jump off I refused the moment they tried to push me when Holmes and lestrade were up and tried to stop them, but it was to late they had pushed me off I fell and landed on some bushes and passed out. I awoke to find everybody waiting for me to awake, so I got up and asked what happend ,Holmes started when he awoke to find me gone so he wired lestrade when before he went to find me maria came in crying saying they were gonna throw me off clock so he wired Watson and headed to the clock with lestrade to try to save me, when they arrived they tried stop him but it was too late when I passed out Watson was able to keep me alive till they got me to baker street to bandage me so I wouldn't lose anymore blood. So you caught the villains I asked? Yes replied Holmes they were more Moriartys gang. After I ate my breakfast , maria walked in and thanked us for saving her, before she kissed me and said hope you feel better soon. When she left lestrade came to show me the paper, on the front page was an article about me and how I survived the fall. He told me that the men were investigated and found out that many people are planning to kill me. All I could say was the gamesafoot .