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 Merry Men (short story) The Merry Men (short story) "The Merry Men" is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in "Cornhill Magazine" 45-6 (June–July 1882). The story was later published in Stevenson's collection "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" (1887). It is set on the fictional island Eilean Aros, based on the Isle of Erraid. The title derives from the local name given to a group of waves in the story, not from the Merry Men of Robin Hood and his merry men The narrator, Charles Darnaway, a recent graduate of Edinburgh University, travels to the remote