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 Band! The ______ Band!' 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 Band - a ______ Band?""Sometimes I Have Thought That It Was Merelythe Wild Talk Of Delirium - Sometimes That It Mayhave Referred To Some Band Of People - Perhaps Tothese Very Gipsies In The Plantation;"The Band! The ______ Band!" Whisperedholmes

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.