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a speckled band
'O, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the Doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words.
First of all, there is no "spectral" or specter or ghost in the story, and she used the term "speckled band" because that is what she thought she saw.
Dr. Roylott, Helen and Julia's stepfather. (Julia is the sister who dies, Helen is the one who consults Sherlock.)
"In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a matchbox." -- Helen Stoner, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'
A swamp adder.
In the story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Helen Stoner's twin sister Julia said "The band! The speckled band!" before she died. These were her last words before succumbing to the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death.
a speckled band
'O, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the Doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words.
a "speckled band"
First of all, there is no "spectral" or specter or ghost in the story, and she used the term "speckled band" because that is what she thought she saw.
Dr. Roylott, Helen and Julia's stepfather. (Julia is the sister who dies, Helen is the one who consults Sherlock.)
"In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a matchbox." -- Helen Stoner, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band'
Julia Butterfly Hill Adventures in Treesitting - 1999 was released on: USA: 1999
Julia's last words about a "speckled band" were in fact describing "a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India" see related link
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Their names are Helen and Julia Stoner, and they are not only sisters but twins as well.