The Adventure of the Speckled Band a pipe. Even Conan Doyle's bow was upstaged when Lyn Harding appeared at curtain call with the snake draped around his neck. "The Speckled Band" ran for 169 performances at the Adelphi Theatre before transferring to the Globe on 28 August. The play enjoyed a successful tour in England, with two touring-companies on the road by the end of August, while the New York presentation was marred by clumsy production. Conan Doyle's financial difficulties were at an end, yet there were still problems to be resolved with the production. While the human cast was excellent, the live snake proved to
The Last Word (Knight short story) was a woman and had the last word. I gestured toward the purple darkness outside. "Lost Earth? What do you call this?" She poised her hand on the switch. "Hell," she said. And I have remembered her voice, through ten thousand lonely years. About this story, Knight wrote "The Last Word" is one of three stories I have written using orthodox Christian materials - God, the devil, etc. - which proves that my childhood training had some use after all. The Last Word (Knight short story) "The Last Word" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight.