This etext was prepared by David Brannan of Woodbridge, Virginia. 

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot 

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

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 sombre 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