Which theme of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is expressed in this excerpt from the story? "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?"

"Yes, there are nearly always some there."

"Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band-a speckled band?"

"Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some be

perhaps to these very sipsies in the plantation. I do not know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of the

their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which she used."

Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied,

O A. the importance of proof and logic

OB. the dangers of jumping to conclusions

OC. good versus evil

OD, England's fascination with the East