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

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

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

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