This story is about a women that asks for Sherlock Holmes help because she believes that she is going to die like her sister that died two years before. She believes that her sister was either frightened to death or killed by gipsies. Because when this Helen found her sister the last words the she sad was "Helen! Oh my God, Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!" All this happened just before Helens sister was supposed to get married. And there mother was also a rich woman but she died long before all this happened and their stepfather got £750 a year from his dead wife's fund. But if the sisters would marry he would have to pay them £250 each a year so if the girls would marry he wouldn't get all the money! But now Helen had decided to wheter marrid or not .now she bring the matter to holmes . and holmes after a afternoon check , with assitant of the woman got to the house in the night. and figured it out that it was a speckled snake of his stepfather that killed her sister and now organized to kill her too.