Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the Devil's foot by the
Speaker 1: Cornish Horse.
Speaker 2: It was the spring of the year eighteen hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety seven. Holmes Is iron constitution had shown some signs
Speaker 2: of giving way due to a particularly arduous and nerve
Speaker 2: racking winter. In March of that year, Dr Moore, Agar
Speaker 2: of Harley Street gave positive injunctions that homes get out
Speaker 2: into the country for protected rest well. The third week
Speaker 2: in March, Founder settled in a small cottage near paul
Speaker 2: Due Bay, at the further extremity of the College Peninsula.
Speaker 1: Isn't it rather a bleak country for a convalescent doctor Watton.
Speaker 2: Bleak is putting it, Marler, I've never known since grim surroundings,
Speaker 2: but it suited Holmes admirable. He seemed to blossom in
Speaker 2: that weird and foreboding, fog swept district.
Speaker 1: Just as natural perversion as asable, Oh.
Speaker 2: I daresay, our little whitewashed cottage stood on a grassy headland.
Speaker 2: From its windows we looked down upon the whole sinister
Speaker 2: semicircle of Mount's Bay, that old death trap, with its
Speaker 2: fringe of black cliffs and third swept reefs. In every direction,
Speaker 2: there were traces of some vanished race which had left
Speaker 2: as its soul records strange monuments of stone homes. Spent
Speaker 2: most of his time buckling.
Speaker 3: Around these weird ruins.
Speaker 2: Everything was going along peacefully until one morning our simple,
Speaker 2: healthy routine was violently interrupted. We were precipitated into the
Speaker 2: middle of a series of gruesome and nerve shattering events.
Speaker 4: Right a surf this morning, he Watson.
Speaker 5: You can see the spray flung up against our windows,
Speaker 5: and we're a good one hundred feet above sea level.
Speaker 5: I don't think I shall venture out today. Hmm, bad weather.
Speaker 5: Old boy is certainly lashing himself into a fine frenzy
Speaker 5: with him in the old boy home. The devil, Watson,
Speaker 5: the devil himself?
Speaker 3: What are you raving about?
Speaker 5: Didn't I tell you that the natives hereabouts referred to
Speaker 5: that seething death trap down there as the Devil's caldron.
Speaker 4: They think the old gentleman himself lives there.
Speaker 2: Subtly.
Speaker 4: Yes, a very interesting superstition, you know, Watson. This locality
Speaker 4: is supposed.
Speaker 5: To have been the last result of devil worship in England.
Speaker 5: Many scientists believe that.
Speaker 4: Those huge prehistoric monuments of stone were perfect temple given
Speaker 4: over to the Prince of darkness.
Speaker 2: Preposterous.
Speaker 4: Quite don't know.
Speaker 5: It's as logical as most of the theories that endeavored
Speaker 5: to explain their existence. The superstition goes on to say
Speaker 5: that when the devil was finally driven from his temple,
Speaker 5: he took refuge in the bay down there.
Speaker 4: Yes, they claim that.
Speaker 5: On stormy nights you can hear his fullfeats as he
Speaker 5: races up and down the rocks.
Speaker 2: What are you trying to do? Give me a case
Speaker 2: of nerves?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 4: What's this? What's this?
Speaker 2: Someone's running about parts spoke, clapping about like a giant bat.
Speaker 2: Why it's that Trigini's fellow, the one who boards with
Speaker 2: a vicar Mortimitric Guinness?
Speaker 4: Eh, wh what's happened?
Speaker 5: Faces white to the sheet, couldn't look more upset if
Speaker 5: he'd seen deals about himself.
Speaker 4: Open the door, Watson, mister, thank you? Can I find
Speaker 4: you at home? This terrible thing has happened. I can
Speaker 4: scarcely believe if I sat down, idn't tell us it down?
Speaker 6: That's better?
Speaker 4: Now, perhaps you can tell us what has happened.
Speaker 7: My family, my sister, we were playing cars.
Speaker 4: Role and I'll take your time my family, my.
Speaker 6: Sister and my two brothers. It's too terrible.
Speaker 7: Why just last night I was with them at the
Speaker 7: house Tedanic Wharfer.
Speaker 8: It's called all well and happy. We played Carls and
Speaker 8: now without warning.
Speaker 4: I can't believe EASi again. It's easy. There's a good fellow.
Speaker 7: I left him last night. My sister Brenda, my two brothers,
Speaker 7: Owen and George.
Speaker 4: What time was that?
Speaker 6: The clock in the church steeple.
Speaker 7: Over at Polo is chiming ten o'clock. As I closed
Speaker 7: the front door behind me.
Speaker 8: I left them all in the card room, laughing in
Speaker 8: good spirits. And this morning, being an early riser, I
Speaker 8: was out taking a walk before breakfast when Doctor Richards
Speaker 8: overtook me in his carriage with the news that he'd
Speaker 8: been sent for and a most urgent call from Tredanic Wafer.
Speaker 4: Something terrible happened.
Speaker 6: To my family.
Speaker 8: I jumped him beside him and he whipped up the horses.
Speaker 4: And what did you find your hope, mister Holmes.
Speaker 7: It was terrible, ghostly, my two brothers and my sister
Speaker 7: there in the.
Speaker 8: Card room, just as I had left them.
Speaker 3: But what a change, what a ghastly change.
Speaker 8: Yes, Brenda lay back stone, dead in her chair, and
Speaker 8: my two brothers sat on each side of her, laughing
Speaker 8: and shouting, and seeing the senses stricken clean out of them,
Speaker 8: And all three of them, my poor dead sister and
Speaker 8: my two demented brothers, retained upon their faces an expression
Speaker 8: of ghostly.
Speaker 3: Horror, but a convulsion of terror.
Speaker 6: How terrible.
Speaker 8: Yes, Doctor Richard was so of the concide that he
Speaker 8: fell fainting into a chair.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 5: Anyone else in the house besides your sistern brothers.
Speaker 8: Only missus Porter, the old housekeeper.
Speaker 4: I presume it was she who found them this morning.
Speaker 6: Yes, she always goes through the house.
Speaker 7: In the mornings, adding it out before the family comes down.
Speaker 8: When she reached the card room, the shock was too
Speaker 8: much for her, she said, the nervous collapse.
Speaker 6: We had to put it to bed.
Speaker 8: No wonder an exceptional case. Most exceptional, that's what we thought.
Speaker 8: We could find, no traces of strangers in or around
Speaker 8: the house. Nothing was stolen, nothing touched. The vicar believes
Speaker 8: you are the only one who can solve the case,
Speaker 8: mister Holmes, he insisted, I come to you, I shall
Speaker 8: be only too glad to handle the matter, of course,
Speaker 8: But first I must ask you if your question.
Speaker 4: Anything, mister Holmes, anything to begin.
Speaker 5: With, mister Tregannis, why do you live with a vicar
Speaker 5: separated from your family?
Speaker 8: Well, as a matter of fact, we had a slight
Speaker 8: argument a few years ago about some property it was,
Speaker 8: but that was all settled long ago.
Speaker 6: We were on the best of terms.
Speaker 5: Now, mister Tregannis, about last night, do you recall anything,
Speaker 5: anything at all, that was out of the ordinary.
Speaker 4: There was one thing that occurs to me.
Speaker 7: As we sat at the card table, my back was
Speaker 7: to the window.
Speaker 6: George was facing me.
Speaker 8: Suddenly I saw him look hard over my shoulder out
Speaker 8: of the window. I turned quickly, and just for a
Speaker 8: moment I thought I caught a glimpse of something, something moving,
Speaker 8: man or animal, I don't quite know. My brother said
Speaker 8: he had the same feeling. It's uncanny, that's what it is.
Speaker 8: Something came into that room, and that something killed my
Speaker 8: sister and death for light of reason from my brother's minds, something.
Speaker 6: Devilish it was.
Speaker 4: If that should prove to be the case, I fear
Speaker 4: I shall be a very little assistance mister Kennis. But
Speaker 4: short of wrestling with a satanic majesty, I think perhaps
Speaker 4: we can.
Speaker 8: Solve your problem.
Speaker 5: Come Onson, we'd just go down to Tradanic Walter at once.
Speaker 5: This is the house, mister Holmes, whose carriages this coming
Speaker 5: down the drive with the blinds down?
Speaker 3: Somebody in it. Listen, my brothers, my poor brothers.
Speaker 8: It's doctor Richard carrit He's taking them to a host asylum.
Speaker 6: It's too awful, right, poor, is it?
Speaker 4: Gnn It's easy.
Speaker 6: Put us up together. I'll do my best.
Speaker 3: Good man.
Speaker 4: Which are the windows of the card room?
Speaker 7: This one here?
Speaker 2: Well, look out, homes you wrapset the wharfing can dear, dear,
Speaker 2: how clumsy of me?
Speaker 5: Sorry it to Dennis. I'm afraid I've drenched your boot.
Speaker 7: But no mess, and mister Holmes, no matter.
Speaker 6: Shall we go in?
Speaker 4: Yes, I have seen all I need to see out here.
Speaker 6: This way?
Speaker 4: The card room is over here. Do you notice anything, Watson,
Speaker 4: I'll say that I do. This is the card room.
Speaker 4: M I see the windows still open. The housekeeper left
Speaker 4: it that way, I presume, yes. She says it was
Speaker 4: locked on the inside when she came in. Quite so
Speaker 4: I think we may close it now. No, let Mekendall's
Speaker 4: quite out.
Speaker 5: Yes, can't still on the table, I have not risen
Speaker 5: from their chairs. I take it, and you left to ten.
Speaker 5: That sets the hour of death at some time before eleven.
Speaker 4: Hmm, I I am burned out? Why fire?
Speaker 8: Had they always a fine this small room on a
Speaker 8: spring evening which was cold and damped last night, mister Holmes,
Speaker 8: the fire was lead shortly off from my arrival.
Speaker 4: I see well, that seems to be about all. No
Speaker 4: disturbance of any kind. It's strange.
Speaker 3: Oh, come along, Holmes, Come along.
Speaker 2: The room gives me the jumps. There's something about the atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Low death was still hovering in the air.
Speaker 5: I wonder, Come, Watson, we will return to our cottage
Speaker 5: should anything occur to me in mister tre Kennis, I
Speaker 5: shall communicate with you.
Speaker 4: It won't do, Watson, it won't do. All the facts
Speaker 4: are negatives.
Speaker 2: So do you think mister Gannis's account of his actions
Speaker 2: last night was truthful?
Speaker 1: Quite?
Speaker 4: Watson?
Speaker 6: Quite?
Speaker 5: You remember the incident of this pilt watering? Can I
Speaker 5: did that to obtain an impression of his foot I
Speaker 5: take it you succeeded.
Speaker 4: I did. With that print as a sample. I was
Speaker 4: able to trace his movements last night. His story is correct.
Speaker 5: He left the house at about ten went straight back
Speaker 5: to the vicarage and did not return, nor did any
Speaker 5: one else enter or leave that house.
Speaker 2: Then it must have been a man or animal they
Speaker 2: they thought they saw in the bushes. You must have
Speaker 2: returned and fightened them to death.
Speaker 4: There was no such man or animal, Watson, last night
Speaker 4: was a dark knight.
Speaker 5: Anyone who had the wish to frighten these people would
Speaker 5: be compelled to put his face against the glass before
Speaker 5: he could be seen. Well, there is a three foot
Speaker 5: flower border outside the cardroom window, but there are absolutely
Speaker 5: no footprints theres But with that, it means mister Gannis's
Speaker 5: sister and her two brothers were alone when death struck
Speaker 5: the sister down and drove the brothers insane homes.
Speaker 4: That would be supernatural, I hope not, Watson.
Speaker 2: Look, look, here comes another visitor of our path. Stranger,
Speaker 2: this term big savage looking fellow that.
Speaker 5: My dear Watson, is none other than the famous doctor
Speaker 5: Leon Sterndale.
Speaker 3: Sterndale, the lan hunter and explorer.
Speaker 4: Exactly that's what he doing in this neighborhood. Oh, I've
Speaker 4: heard he owns a little cottage about five miles down
Speaker 4: the coast.
Speaker 5: They told me he lives there. Absolutely by himself when
Speaker 5: he isn't off on one of his expeditions. Never mind, Watson,
Speaker 5: I'll do the honors myself.
Speaker 6: Come in, doctor.
Speaker 4: Sterndale, Come in, mister Rols. Yes, and this is my
Speaker 4: friend doctor Watson. You do you do, mister Holmes, I've
Speaker 4: come to you about the tragedy to Danik Walter.
Speaker 6: The police are utterly at a loss. You have a
Speaker 6: keener brain.
Speaker 4: Pardon me, doctor Sterndale, but why are you so concerned
Speaker 4: in this affair?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: You see, during my many residences in this locality, I've
Speaker 4: come to know the family of Tregennis. Well, I see there.
Speaker 4: Their horrible fate has been a great shock to me,
Speaker 4: mister Holmes. I am so sorry. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: I was on my way to Africa that god, as
Speaker 4: far as Plymouth when the news reached me this morning.
Speaker 4: I came straight back to helping the inquiry. But that
Speaker 4: would make you lose your ship one sale for Africa
Speaker 4: this afternoon. If I'm not mistaken, I can take the next.
Speaker 4: When did you last see the Triguennis family, Doctor Sterndale.
Speaker 4: I saw Brenda, mister Guinnis three days ago, just as
Speaker 4: I was leaving the Plymouth, Oh so you have been
Speaker 4: in Plymouth for the last three days.
Speaker 6: Yes, in Plymouth. But how did you get the news
Speaker 6: so quickly?
Speaker 5: Surely the Plymouth papers didn't carry an account of the
Speaker 5: matter in this morning's edition. I received a telegram telegram,
Speaker 5: might I ask from whom you're very inquisitive, mister Holmes.
Speaker 4: It is my business, doctor Sterndale.
Speaker 6: Very well.
Speaker 4: The telegram was sent by the vicar, mister Rouncy. I
Speaker 4: see now, mister Holmes, have you reached any conclusions? Conclusions?
Speaker 5: No, that would be a trifle premature, But I have
Speaker 5: every hope of bringing this matter to a satisfactory termination.
Speaker 4: Satisfactory to me, that is, would you mind telling me
Speaker 4: if you were suspicions point in any particular direction.
Speaker 5: I I do not feel that this is the moment
Speaker 5: to answer that question, Doctor Sterndale.
Speaker 4: Ah, and I see that I've been wasting my time.
Speaker 4: I need not prolong this visit.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Get bud, hmm close smile, fellow Doctor Sterndale
Speaker 2: is home.
Speaker 4: He told me more than he realized, Watson. But he
Speaker 4: knows even more.
Speaker 2: How could he if he was in Plymouth?
Speaker 6: But was he?
Speaker 4: Watson? That statement is something for us to look into.
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Speaker 2: I say, Holmes, must you go on smoking that foul pipe?
Speaker 2: The atmosphere so thick I can hardly see across the
Speaker 2: rooms it is, Oh dear, I feel depressed. Who knows
Speaker 2: what evil thing is talking abroad in this neighborhood night?
Speaker 5: The lamp, Watson, it's the gathering twilight that makes a
Speaker 5: gloomy rubbish.
Speaker 2: Okay, Holmes, what about the doctor's turned down?
Speaker 4: I think he didn't, No, Watson, I've been in communication
Speaker 4: with his Plymouth hotel.
Speaker 6: His story was correct.
Speaker 5: He had been there for the past three days, and
Speaker 5: he did receive a telegram from the vicar this morning,
Speaker 5: and he.
Speaker 2: Couldn't post they have had anything to do with that
Speaker 2: Tons tragedy last night.
Speaker 4: Quite.
Speaker 5: I didn't think he had a connection with the tragedy,
Speaker 5: but there is a connection with now Watt.
Speaker 4: Opened the door. Watson, Ah, my deada could come in,
Speaker 4: come in year me. You look as though he'd seen
Speaker 4: a ghost's tracked.
Speaker 3: Him down the curse of the family.
Speaker 4: He's dead, dead, with that same look of terror on
Speaker 4: his face. Who is dead?
Speaker 2: Autometric Ken has in his study enter taku at his
Speaker 2: joints cart. My servant found him sitting beside his table,
Speaker 2: his face turned to the window and just totted with
Speaker 2: that same convulsion of fear that marked the features of
Speaker 2: his sister.
Speaker 8: Oh my poor parish Satan himself is loose among us.
Speaker 4: We are devil, written mister Holmes, devil ridden.
Speaker 6: This was his study, mister Holst.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, depressing atmosphere, It was worse.
Speaker 6: I have the servant open the window. He's quite ill
Speaker 6: from shock, poor fellow.
Speaker 2: What a terrible look on Trigetis's face, and.
Speaker 5: The whole body is contorted and convulsed in the very
Speaker 5: panxysm of fear. You've never seen death in this one before, Watson, No, never,
Speaker 5: You know of no poison.
Speaker 4: That would have this effect. Oh heavens now, h lamp
Speaker 4: is lit. It's burning over an arm notes, the oil consumed,
Speaker 4: yet darkness has just set in. Did anyone call of
Speaker 4: the vicarage of this afternoon?
Speaker 8: No, I was out myself, but my servant says he
Speaker 8: let know it in then Tregellis was alone in my window.
Speaker 8: The window was shut at the time of his death,
Speaker 8: but the lamp was lit. Curious the window, let's see No, Yes,
Speaker 8: by jove, I think I found something.
Speaker 2: What's that you're putting in your pocket?
Speaker 3: Homes and the lamp?
Speaker 4: Of course, the lamp.
Speaker 5: Notice this powder which has been spilled on the base
Speaker 5: of the lamp, red brown powder. Give me an envelope, Watson,
Speaker 5: I must have these specks of powder.
Speaker 2: Are you so excited about the powder?
Speaker 5: Homes because it contains the solution of our mystery? Watson,
Speaker 5: it is the sauce and the solution.
Speaker 3: Homes, you haven't touched your supper.
Speaker 2: What a fall night.
Speaker 3: The wind's rising again.
Speaker 4: Oh, have another cup of team. Be quiet.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be quiet. I want to talk.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of waiting here. This seems that blasted wind
Speaker 2: in the roar of the water down there below? Why
Speaker 2: did you send for doctor Sterndale because he's an authority
Speaker 2: obscure African poison poisons. Why are you interested in poisons?
Speaker 4: Watson?
Speaker 5: There two striking points in common in both cases under observation.
Speaker 5: In both cases, the atmosphere of the room had a
Speaker 5: curious effect on.
Speaker 4: The persons who first entered it. The housekeeper and the
Speaker 4: vicar's servant were both overcome, as was the doctor who
Speaker 4: was called in.
Speaker 3: Thought that the room was still suffer when we entered it.
Speaker 4: Right, And in each case there was combustion going on
Speaker 4: in the room, the fire in the first case, the
Speaker 4: lamp in the second, and the lamp was not necessary.
Speaker 4: It was still daylight when it was lit.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I still learn't see.
Speaker 4: Something was burned in.
Speaker 5: Each case, which produced an atmosphere causing strange toxic effects
Speaker 5: an unknown poison. Good heavens, I believe we have a
Speaker 5: sample of that poison in the brown powders built on
Speaker 5: the base of the lamb.
Speaker 3: Are you going to prove it?
Speaker 5: I'm going to burn some of that powder. Notice its effect,
Speaker 5: Just a small pinch of powder. Yes, perhaps you'd better
Speaker 5: leave the room, Watson, and leave.
Speaker 3: You alone in here.
Speaker 2: Certainly not.
Speaker 3: I warn you, it's risk game and found that wind.
Speaker 2: Come along. Come on, let's get it on with it
Speaker 2: and get it.
Speaker 6: Over very well.
Speaker 5: Place your chair opposite mine. Then we can want each
Speaker 5: other for developments.
Speaker 4: If anything alarming happens, we can end the experiment, all right,
Speaker 4: come on, I'm ready good. I put a pinch of
Speaker 4: the powder into our lamp.
Speaker 2: Oh so mad?
Speaker 3: What a hoofy smell?
Speaker 4: Mmm, musky, subtle, nauseus.
Speaker 3: Listen to the wind, Home, I'm afraid. I don't know
Speaker 3: why that wind. I can feel my hair rising. Homes,
Speaker 3: you see it, that cloud bank, whirling black and sinister.
Speaker 6: It's monster us.
Speaker 2: It's concealing something, something too wicked to imagine.
Speaker 3: Homes, It's coming nearer and nearer.
Speaker 6: How do you smell it?
Speaker 4: Tough on Remiston?
Speaker 2: You hear that arms its hoofy hoof beats.
Speaker 4: I know what it is.
Speaker 3: I can see it. I can't stand it.
Speaker 4: What's the love of heaven? Don't get in, don't breathe.
Speaker 3: I'll smash the window.
Speaker 4: I'll smash.
Speaker 2: That's been breathing, Watson, breathe it in it good clean hair?
Speaker 4: Oh, why Joe, what an arrow escape? I had no idea.
Speaker 4: It was so fat I thought I saw though. I
Speaker 4: know it's a poison.
Speaker 5: That affects the nerve centers of the imagination. The train
Speaker 5: is enough to kill a man who driving trade close
Speaker 5: That someone knocking at the door, So.
Speaker 3: That's when I heard.
Speaker 2: It seems cleared out.
Speaker 4: Good thing there was a high wind. I'll close the
Speaker 4: shutter and draw the curtain. Watson, Can you open the
Speaker 4: door now?
Speaker 3: Yes? I think, sir, who my my niece is still shaky.
Speaker 5: But ady, mister Holmes who sent Bobby, Yes, come in,
Speaker 5: not the stand he'll come in.
Speaker 6: Hm, you look rather pale, I'll you.
Speaker 5: Yes, we've just been conducting a little with the poison
Speaker 5: that killed to Guinnis you heares, doctor Sterndale? Perhaps you'd
Speaker 5: like to tell us why you killed Mortimer Gennis.
Speaker 6: I preposterous.
Speaker 4: You can't prove it.
Speaker 5: No, let me tell you how you did it. You
Speaker 5: came over to the vicarage late this afternoon. You didn't
Speaker 5: want anyone to know you'd visited to Guennis. He was
Speaker 5: to let you in himself, but how could you attract
Speaker 5: his attention? You brought some pebbles with your pink pebbles
Speaker 5: from a heap beside your house. You threw these at
Speaker 5: the study window, where you knew t. Gennis was working.
Speaker 5: I found some of these pebbles on the window sill.
Speaker 5: Tre Ginnis came downstairs, let you in himself. You had
Speaker 5: a talk with him, made him light his lamp, place
Speaker 5: the pinch of the poisoned powder in the flame and
Speaker 5: left h You all right, mister Holmes, I did kill
Speaker 5: mortimerer Guinnis, but I'm not guilty of the other atrocity.
Speaker 4: I swear I'm not. I believe you, doctor Sterndale. But
Speaker 4: you know who did it. Perhaps you'd bet tell us
Speaker 4: about it very well. It was Mortimer tre Guinness what
Speaker 4: he admitted it before I before he died, Mister Holmes,
Speaker 4: I've been in love with the Brenda Trigennis for many years.
Speaker 6: We were to have been married when my work in
Speaker 6: Africa was finished.
Speaker 4: I've lived so long in places where man is a
Speaker 4: law unto himself.
Speaker 6: He killed Brenda in cold blood.
Speaker 3: He killed her.
Speaker 6: I have nothing else to live for.
Speaker 4: Why him I do it again?
Speaker 5: How did Mortimer t Guinnis get hold of the poison?
Speaker 5: It was something unusual, almost unknown.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was powder piably diable devil's foot eh, Yes,
Speaker 4: a root found in Africa shaped like a foot, half human,
Speaker 4: half goat, like I have.
Speaker 5: The only specimen in England, and you showed it to Tregennis. Yes,
Speaker 5: he came over the other afternoon when I was packing.
Speaker 4: He was interested in my African curiosities, particularly this powder.
Speaker 6: How he took it, I can't say.
Speaker 4: I thought no more of the matter until I received
Speaker 4: the vicger's telegram and learned how they died.
Speaker 6: I returned at once.
Speaker 4: I looking into the tragedy, I was convinced Mortimertri Gennis
Speaker 4: was the murderer, that he'd done it to gain control
Speaker 4: of the family fortune.
Speaker 6: There was the crime, but what was to be his punishment?
Speaker 4: What jury would believe such a fantastic story? Oh, I
Speaker 4: decided to take the law into my own hands. Perhaps
Speaker 4: if you ever loved anyone, you know how I felt.
Speaker 5: Hm, Doctor Standale, what were your plans when you set
Speaker 5: out for Plymouth.
Speaker 4: I had intended to bury myself in Central Africa. My
Speaker 4: work is only half fifth.
Speaker 5: Go and finish the other half, doctor Standale. I do
Speaker 5: not feel called upon to prevent you.
Speaker 4: En