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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Arthur Shamyan, 7a

Recently I have read the book The Stories about Sherlock Holmes. There are many interesting stories in this book but I want to tell about my favorite story The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Dr. Watson said: "Of all cases this one was the most exciting".

Their client was Helen Stoner. She said that she was afraid to death. She was very unhappy and tired. Her face was very white. She had frightened eyes. She was a young woman about thirty, but her hair was grey. She lived with her sister Julia and her stepfather. Her stepfather liked Indian animals. He had a cheetah and a baboon. His only friends were gypsies. One night her sister died under strange circumstances. Before she died she had said that it was the band, the speckled band.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson visited her house. In her sister's room there was the air-vent. When they were in the room they heard a terrible cry from her stepfather’s room. They came into his room and saw the opened iron safe. He was sitting on a chair. His head was up and his eyes were fixed on the air-vent. Round his head there was a yellow band with brown spots. He was dead. It was the same speckled band! At suddenly the band moved. It was the Indian snake. It was his pet.

So, it had crawled into Julia's room through the air-vent and killed her. Later it killed her stepfather when he was playing with his pet.

It was a really interesting story!