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The Speckled Band

Helen Stoner visited Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seeking help. She feared she would meet the same fate as her sister Julia, who died under mysterious circumstances in their stepfather's home. Holmes agreed to investigate Julia's room where he discovered a vent connecting to their stepfather's room and evidence the bed had been moved. That night while keeping watch, Holmes saved Helen by startling a poisonous snake that had been sent through the vent by their stepfather to kill her as well.

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The Speckled Band

Helen Stoner visited Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seeking help. She feared she would meet the same fate as her sister Julia, who died under mysterious circumstances in their stepfather's home. Holmes agreed to investigate Julia's room where he discovered a vent connecting to their stepfather's room and evidence the bed had been moved. That night while keeping watch, Holmes saved Helen by startling a poisonous snake that had been sent through the vent by their stepfather to kill her as well.

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THE SPECKLED BAND

SUMMARY

One morning ___________ went to visit Sherlock Holmes at his flat in ________ Street in London, there
was also Dr. Watson in the _____.
She told Holmes that she was very _________ death, because she had grey _____, ______ years old and was
near to get _________, the same hair, the same years old and the same situation of her _______ when she
died.
So Holmes asked Helen how her sister had died, and she told him it was in a stormy night, she heard a
woman's _______ and after that her sister opened her _______ and fell to the ground, her face was white
and she could only say help me Helen!. I'm dying”, It was The ________band.” Helen told Holmes she lived
in a village in the country, near London, with her _________, his name was Dr _________. He was a
________ man, all the people were afraid of him and he had __________ animals which ran freely in his
garden, and there were _______outside his house. My sister was near to marry a _________ when she died.
Helen didn´t want to die like her sister Julia, She was also near to get marry with a dear friend. Holmes
asked her to see the _______ and the _______, But her stepfather couldn’t know about it.
But her stepfather was in ______ now, so he wouldn’t know about their visit.
Then they went to the house. When Holmes ______ into Julia's rooms he saw a _________ near an air-vent
that ended in the stepfather's room, Holmes also saw that the bed was _______ to the floor, and after
thinking a minute he said Helen was in ______.
They wanted to go there at night. Helen agreed. When they went to the house that night it was very silently,
they ______ in Julia's room for three hours, but nothing happened, and just then they heard a _______ and
the sound of falling _______, suddenly Holmes jumped up the bed and _______ strongly the bell-rope, after
that they heard silence for a minute and next the scream of a ______. They went to the stepfather's room and
saw him ______, with a strange yellow speckled band _______ his neck, the speckled band was a _______,
an Indian snake with a strong ______ that could kill in seconds. Holmes said it was over, when he hit the
bell-rope the snake got _______ and came back through the _______ and killed Helen's stepfather. If the
snake had come down through the bell-rope and gone on to the bed they would be dead, like Julia has died.
Helen Stoner finally ________ and got a happy life, but she could never ________ about the speckled
band.
END
Sherlock Holmes: ……………………………………………………………………………………………

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Dr Watson: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Dr Grimesby Roylott: ………………………………………………………………………………………..

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Helen:…………………………………………………………….....................................................

Julia: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

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