Finally Finished!

Part 2: Chapters 5-7
John Ferrier and Lucy Ferrier were eventually captured. John was shot by Stangerson and Lucy was forced to marry Drebber. Jefferson Hope took this into stride as he vowed to seek vengeance. When Hope was taken to prison, he told the detectives his account of the story. Hope tracked down Stangerson and Drebber to London and killed them. Before he was even tried, he died of an aortic aneurism.
What I found interesting was that despite Holmes having solved the case, he still didn't know who the person was that came to retrieve the ring. Hope didn't tell him because he didn't want to be a snitch. Despite Holmes's deductive reasoning, he couldn't figure out this little detail. Holmes was very cocky in saying that "the proof of its intrinsic simplicity is, that without any help save a few very ordinary deductions I was able to lay my hand upon the criminal within three days." Holmes explains his method for deductive reasoning clearly in the last chapter. He notes that you have "to be able to reason backward."
The passage will probably clarify any confusion:
"Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically." - Holmes
He then goes on and describes how he solved the case. Holmes basically examines every detail of the crime scene and makes inferences and asks questions. This is basically what we all do everyday. But Holmes has the ability to go beyond this and make his own scenarios. At first, he examined the footsteps and found that there were two men involved. Then he entered the house and realized that there wasn't a robbery. He figured it might involve politics or a woman. When he saw the ring, he immediately knew that it was over a woman. He basicaly calls the police in Cleveland and inquires the marriage of Drebber. The police told Holmes that Drebber had asked for "protection of the law" against Jefferson Hope. Holmes had found his murderer. So he has his Arab squad pursue the streets of London looking for Hope and when they find Hope, they arrest him.
Even though, Holmes solves the case, the article in the newspaper gives Holmes barely any recognition. The article states, "The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line and who, with such instructors[Lestrade and Gregson], may hope in time to attain to some degree of their skill." This is ironic because Holmes's intuition definitely surpasses that of Lestrade's and Gregon's.

The story is told in the point of view of Dr. Watson, who is Holmes's roommate. And no, Holmes doesn't show any real emotion towards anything. He's like Stevens, all he cares about is work. But I suppose if he were to fall in love....then things could get interesting. Now off to my next Sherlock Holmes book.