the adventure of the speckled band story

The work, Miss Stoner says, contributed to Julia's death two years before.

Because of Roylott's hideous temper, Miss Stoner and Julia can't get any servants to stay at the house.

Roylott also keeps a cheetah and a baboon to roam the grounds. He has no friends except for a group of Roma (known kind of negatively throughout the story as 'gipsies') who camp on the lawn. He becomes violent and starts frightening away all the neighbors. For their part, Miss Stoner and Julia are psyched to go: they think they'll be happy there.

With the money his wife has left him, Roylott takes Miss Stoner and Julia away from London and to his old family home in Stoke Moran.

But her will does allow for some of that money to go to Miss Stoner and to Julia if/when the girls get married. $132,000 now) – which she left to Roylott upon her death eight years prior.

Miss Stoner's mother was left with quite a lot of money – one thousand pounds per year (about U.S.

Miss Stoner also has a twin sister, Julia.

Roylott was pretty busy while he was in India: not only does he set up his own medical practice and beat his butler to death, but he also finds the time to marry Miss Stoner's mother, a young widow at the time.

Eventually, though, he goes back to England. He flies into a rage when his house gets robbed and beats his Indian butler to death, for which he is sent to prison for a while. He does succeed in making some cash – but Roylott also manages to get into trouble.

The current (and final) Roylott, seeing that there's nothing left of his inheritance, goes to India to make his fortune on his own.

The Roylotts once controlled huge tracts of land, but after generations of spending lots of money, nothing is left of the estate except an old house, heavily mortgaged.

This stepdad is the last living member of a great English family, the Roylotts.

The lady's name is Helen Stoner, and she's living with her stepdad.

He's in this business for the pleasure of the hunt, though he'll be happy to let her pay him back for any expenses he works up, at her convenience. So she's good for the money, if he'll give her time. She's desperate for help, and promises Holmes that, while she can't pay him anything now, she'll be married soon and have control of her own income.

She is pale and drawn, and her hair has strands of premature grey. And indeed, in the sitting room is a lady of around thirty, dressed in black with a black veil, who's shaking with fear.Watson sets the stage: it's early April 1883, and Holmes wakes Watson at the ungodly hour of 7:15am to tell him that a young lady has come to Holmes with a case.

Now we go back even further in time, says Watson, to a case that Holmes investigated while he and Watson were still bachelor-ing it up together at the 221B Baker Street apartment.

The adventure of the speckled band story