The Band, the Speckled Band, Said Holmes

As we entered, he made neither sound nor motion. The band, the speckled band, whispered holmes, i took a step forward. In an instant, his strange headgear began to move, and there reared itself from among his hair, the squat, diamond shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. It is a swamp adder, cried holmes, the deadliest snake in india. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten, violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent. And the schemer falls into the pitth which he digs for another. Let us thrust this creature back into its den, and we can then remove miss