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 Fringe (short story) of the story "America". In that story, he tells about how the governor of Deseret, Sam Monson, met and had a baby with an American Indian woman when he was a teenager. As with many of Card's other literature, a Christian/Mormon influence is present in this story. The Fringe (short story) "The Fringe" is a science fiction short story by American writer Orson Scott Card, originally published in the October 1985 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". It was later reprinted in his short story collection "The Folk of the Fringe" and in "Future on Ice", a