Heavy ______s Of Astrakhan Wereslashed Across The Sleeves And Fronts Of His Doublebreasted Coat - While The Deep Blue Cloak Which Wasthrown Over His Shoulders Was Lined With Flamecoloured Silk And Secured At The Neck With A Broochwhich Consisted Of A Single Flaming Beryl; Look At The ______ Of Ribbed Silkand The Excellent Lining; At Firsti Thought That She Had Not Recognised Me - But As Ibent Over Her She Suddenly Shrieked Out In A Voicewhich I Shall Never Forget - 'oh - My God! Helen!It Was The ______! The Speckled ______!' There Wassomething Else Which She Would Fain Have Said - And She Stabbed With Her Finger Into The Air In Thedirection Of The Doctor's Room - But A Fresh Convulsion Seized Her And Choked Her Words;""Ah - And What Did You Gather From This Allusionto A ______ - a Speckled ______?""Sometimes I Have Thought That It Was Merelythe Wild Talk Of Delirium - Sometimes That It Mayhave Referred To Some ______ Of People - Perhaps Tothese Very Gipsies In The Plantation;"When You Combine The Ideas Of Whistles Atnight - The Presence Of A ______ Of Gipsies Who Areon Intimate Terms With This Old Doctor - The Fact Thatwe Have Every Reason To Believe That The Doctor Hasan Interest In Preventing His Stepdaughter's Marriage - The Dying Allusion To A ______ - And - Finally - Thefact That Miss Helen Stoner Heard A Metallic Clang - Which Might Have Been Caused By One Of Thosemetal Bars That Secured The Shutters Falling Backinto Its Place - I Think That There Is Good Ground Tothink That The Mystery May Be Cleared Along Thoselines; Round His Brow He Hada Peculiar Yellow ______ - With Brownish Speckles - Which Seemed To Be Bound Tightly Round His Head;"The ______! The Speckled ______!" Whisperedholmes;"I Sponged The Wound - Cleaned It - Dressed It - Andfinally Covered It Over With Cotton Wadding Andcarbolised ______ages;"Capital! Between Your Brandy And Your ______age - I Feel A New Man; "But I Have Feltanother Man Since The Doctor ______aged Me - And Ithink That Your Breakfast Has Completed The Cure; An Examination Showed Thatone Of The India-rubber ______s Which Was Round Thehead Of A Driving-rod Had Shrunk So As Not Quiteto Fill The Socket Along Which It Worked; Down The Centre Ofbaker Street It Had Been Ploughed Into A Browncrumbly ______ By The Traffic - But At Either Side Andon The Heaped-up Edges Of The Foot-paths It Stilllay As White As When It Fell

A collection of twelve short stories, published in 1892, by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. I The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.