Latest / Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen / Sherlock Holmes Radio The Devil's Foot Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, how about the Devil's foot by the
- 0:04Cornish Horse.
- 0:05Speaker 2: It was the spring of the year eighteen hundred and
- 0:07ninety seven. Holmes Is iron constitution had shown some signs
- 0:11of giving way due to a particularly arduous and nerve
- 0:14racking winter. In March of that year, Dr Moore, Agar
- 0:17of Harley Street gave positive injunctions that homes get out
- 0:21into the country for protected rest well. The third week
- 0:24in March, Founder settled in a small cottage near paul
- 0:28Due Bay, at the further extremity of the College Peninsula.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Isn't it rather a bleak country for a convalescent doctor Watton.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Bleak is putting it, Marler, I've never known since grim surroundings,
- 0:38but it suited Holmes admirable. He seemed to blossom in
- 0:41that weird and foreboding, fog swept district.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Just as natural perversion as asable, Oh.
- 0:46Speaker 2: I daresay, our little whitewashed cottage stood on a grassy headland.
- 0:51From its windows we looked down upon the whole sinister
- 0:53semicircle of Mount's Bay, that old death trap, with its
- 0:58fringe of black cliffs and third swept reefs. In every direction,
- 1:02there were traces of some vanished race which had left
- 1:06as its soul records strange monuments of stone homes. Spent
- 1:10most of his time buckling.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Around these weird ruins.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Everything was going along peacefully until one morning our simple,
- 1:18healthy routine was violently interrupted. We were precipitated into the
- 1:23middle of a series of gruesome and nerve shattering events.
- 1:30Speaker 4: Right a surf this morning, he Watson.
- 1:33Speaker 5: You can see the spray flung up against our windows,
- 1:35and we're a good one hundred feet above sea level.
- 1:38I don't think I shall venture out today. Hmm, bad weather.
- 1:43Old boy is certainly lashing himself into a fine frenzy
- 1:45with him in the old boy home. The devil, Watson,
- 1:48the devil himself?
- 1:49Speaker 3: What are you raving about?
- 1:51Speaker 5: Didn't I tell you that the natives hereabouts referred to
- 1:53that seething death trap down there as the Devil's caldron.
- 1:57Speaker 4: They think the old gentleman himself lives there.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Subtly.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Yes, a very interesting superstition, you know, Watson. This locality
- 2:05is supposed.
- 2:05Speaker 5: To have been the last result of devil worship in England.
- 2:10Many scientists believe that.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Those huge prehistoric monuments of stone were perfect temple given
- 2:15over to the Prince of darkness.
- 2:16Speaker 2: Preposterous.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Quite don't know.
- 2:19Speaker 5: It's as logical as most of the theories that endeavored
- 2:21to explain their existence. The superstition goes on to say
- 2:25that when the devil was finally driven from his temple,
- 2:28he took refuge in the bay down there.
- 2:30Speaker 4: Yes, they claim that.
- 2:32Speaker 5: On stormy nights you can hear his fullfeats as he
- 2:34races up and down the rocks.
- 2:35Speaker 2: What are you trying to do? Give me a case
- 2:37of nerves?
- 2:38Speaker 6: Hello?
- 2:38Speaker 4: What's this? What's this?
- 2:40Speaker 2: Someone's running about parts spoke, clapping about like a giant bat.
- 2:43Why it's that Trigini's fellow, the one who boards with
- 2:46a vicar Mortimitric Guinness?
- 2:47Speaker 4: Eh, wh what's happened?
- 2:49Speaker 5: Faces white to the sheet, couldn't look more upset if
- 2:51he'd seen deals about himself.
- 2:54Speaker 4: Open the door, Watson, mister, thank you? Can I find
- 2:58you at home? This terrible thing has happened. I can
- 3:01scarcely believe if I sat down, idn't tell us it down?
- 3:05Speaker 6: That's better?
- 3:06Speaker 4: Now, perhaps you can tell us what has happened.
- 3:07Speaker 7: My family, my sister, we were playing cars.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Role and I'll take your time my family, my.
- 3:13Speaker 6: Sister and my two brothers. It's too terrible.
- 3:17Speaker 7: Why just last night I was with them at the
- 3:18house Tedanic Wharfer.
- 3:20Speaker 8: It's called all well and happy. We played Carls and
- 3:24now without warning.
- 3:26Speaker 4: I can't believe EASi again. It's easy. There's a good fellow.
- 3:30Speaker 7: I left him last night. My sister Brenda, my two brothers,
- 3:35Owen and George.
- 3:35Speaker 4: What time was that?
- 3:38Speaker 6: The clock in the church steeple.
- 3:39Speaker 7: Over at Polo is chiming ten o'clock. As I closed
- 3:41the front door behind me.
- 3:43Speaker 8: I left them all in the card room, laughing in
- 3:46good spirits. And this morning, being an early riser, I
- 3:50was out taking a walk before breakfast when Doctor Richards
- 3:53overtook me in his carriage with the news that he'd
- 3:55been sent for and a most urgent call from Tredanic Wafer.
- 3:59Speaker 4: Something terrible happened.
- 4:00Speaker 6: To my family.
- 4:01Speaker 8: I jumped him beside him and he whipped up the horses.
- 4:04Speaker 4: And what did you find your hope, mister Holmes.
- 4:06Speaker 7: It was terrible, ghostly, my two brothers and my sister
- 4:10there in the.
- 4:11Speaker 8: Card room, just as I had left them.
- 4:13Speaker 3: But what a change, what a ghastly change.
- 4:16Speaker 8: Yes, Brenda lay back stone, dead in her chair, and
- 4:20my two brothers sat on each side of her, laughing
- 4:22and shouting, and seeing the senses stricken clean out of them,
- 4:27And all three of them, my poor dead sister and
- 4:30my two demented brothers, retained upon their faces an expression
- 4:33of ghostly.
- 4:34Speaker 3: Horror, but a convulsion of terror.
- 4:37Speaker 6: How terrible.
- 4:38Speaker 8: Yes, Doctor Richard was so of the concide that he
- 4:41fell fainting into a chair.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Hmm.
- 4:44Speaker 5: Anyone else in the house besides your sistern brothers.
- 4:47Speaker 8: Only missus Porter, the old housekeeper.
- 4:49Speaker 4: I presume it was she who found them this morning.
- 4:51Speaker 6: Yes, she always goes through the house.
- 4:53Speaker 7: In the mornings, adding it out before the family comes down.
- 4:56Speaker 8: When she reached the card room, the shock was too
- 4:58much for her, she said, the nervous collapse.
- 5:01Speaker 6: We had to put it to bed.
- 5:02Speaker 8: No wonder an exceptional case. Most exceptional, that's what we thought.
- 5:07We could find, no traces of strangers in or around
- 5:10the house. Nothing was stolen, nothing touched. The vicar believes
- 5:14you are the only one who can solve the case,
- 5:16mister Holmes, he insisted, I come to you, I shall
- 5:19be only too glad to handle the matter, of course,
- 5:22But first I must ask you if your question.
- 5:24Speaker 4: Anything, mister Holmes, anything to begin.
- 5:26Speaker 5: With, mister Tregannis, why do you live with a vicar
- 5:29separated from your family?
- 5:31Speaker 8: Well, as a matter of fact, we had a slight
- 5:33argument a few years ago about some property it was,
- 5:36but that was all settled long ago.
- 5:38Speaker 6: We were on the best of terms.
- 5:40Speaker 5: Now, mister Tregannis, about last night, do you recall anything,
- 5:44anything at all, that was out of the ordinary.
- 5:47Speaker 4: There was one thing that occurs to me.
- 5:50Speaker 7: As we sat at the card table, my back was
- 5:52to the window.
- 5:53Speaker 6: George was facing me.
- 5:55Speaker 8: Suddenly I saw him look hard over my shoulder out
- 5:57of the window. I turned quickly, and just for a
- 6:00moment I thought I caught a glimpse of something, something moving,
- 6:03man or animal, I don't quite know. My brother said
- 6:07he had the same feeling. It's uncanny, that's what it is.
- 6:11Something came into that room, and that something killed my
- 6:14sister and death for light of reason from my brother's minds, something.
- 6:18Speaker 6: Devilish it was.
- 6:20Speaker 4: If that should prove to be the case, I fear
- 6:22I shall be a very little assistance mister Kennis. But
- 6:25short of wrestling with a satanic majesty, I think perhaps
- 6:28we can.
- 6:28Speaker 8: Solve your problem.
- 6:30Speaker 5: Come Onson, we'd just go down to Tradanic Walter at once.
- 6:44This is the house, mister Holmes, whose carriages this coming
- 6:48down the drive with the blinds down?
- 6:50Speaker 3: Somebody in it. Listen, my brothers, my poor brothers.
- 7:00Speaker 8: It's doctor Richard carrit He's taking them to a host asylum.
- 7:06Speaker 6: It's too awful, right, poor, is it?
- 7:08Speaker 4: Gnn It's easy.
- 7:09Speaker 6: Put us up together. I'll do my best.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Good man.
- 7:14Speaker 4: Which are the windows of the card room?
- 7:17Speaker 7: This one here?
- 7:19Speaker 2: Well, look out, homes you wrapset the wharfing can dear, dear,
- 7:21how clumsy of me?
- 7:23Speaker 5: Sorry it to Dennis. I'm afraid I've drenched your boot.
- 7:25Speaker 7: But no mess, and mister Holmes, no matter.
- 7:27Speaker 6: Shall we go in?
- 7:28Speaker 4: Yes, I have seen all I need to see out here.
- 7:33Speaker 6: This way?
- 7:35Speaker 4: The card room is over here. Do you notice anything, Watson,
- 7:41I'll say that I do. This is the card room.
- 7:43M I see the windows still open. The housekeeper left
- 7:48it that way, I presume, yes. She says it was
- 7:50locked on the inside when she came in. Quite so
- 7:53I think we may close it now. No, let Mekendall's
- 7:59quite out.
- 8:01Speaker 5: Yes, can't still on the table, I have not risen
- 8:04from their chairs. I take it, and you left to ten.
- 8:07That sets the hour of death at some time before eleven.
- 8:10Speaker 4: Hmm, I I am burned out? Why fire?
- 8:16Speaker 8: Had they always a fine this small room on a
- 8:18spring evening which was cold and damped last night, mister Holmes,
- 8:21the fire was lead shortly off from my arrival.
- 8:23Speaker 4: I see well, that seems to be about all. No
- 8:29disturbance of any kind. It's strange.
- 8:32Speaker 3: Oh, come along, Holmes, Come along.
- 8:33Speaker 2: The room gives me the jumps. There's something about the atmosphere.
- 8:37Low death was still hovering in the air.
- 8:40Speaker 5: I wonder, Come, Watson, we will return to our cottage
- 8:45should anything occur to me in mister tre Kennis, I
- 8:48shall communicate with you.
- 8:58Speaker 4: It won't do, Watson, it won't do. All the facts
- 9:00are negatives.
- 9:01Speaker 2: So do you think mister Gannis's account of his actions
- 9:03last night was truthful?
- 9:05Speaker 1: Quite?
- 9:05Speaker 4: Watson?
- 9:06Speaker 6: Quite?
- 9:07Speaker 5: You remember the incident of this pilt watering? Can I
- 9:11did that to obtain an impression of his foot I
- 9:13take it you succeeded.
- 9:14Speaker 4: I did. With that print as a sample. I was
- 9:17able to trace his movements last night. His story is correct.
- 9:21Speaker 5: He left the house at about ten went straight back
- 9:23to the vicarage and did not return, nor did any
- 9:26one else enter or leave that house.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Then it must have been a man or animal they
- 9:32they thought they saw in the bushes. You must have
- 9:34returned and fightened them to death.
- 9:36Speaker 4: There was no such man or animal, Watson, last night
- 9:40was a dark knight.
- 9:41Speaker 5: Anyone who had the wish to frighten these people would
- 9:43be compelled to put his face against the glass before
- 9:45he could be seen. Well, there is a three foot
- 9:48flower border outside the cardroom window, but there are absolutely
- 9:51no footprints theres But with that, it means mister Gannis's
- 9:55sister and her two brothers were alone when death struck
- 9:57the sister down and drove the brothers insane homes.
- 10:00Speaker 4: That would be supernatural, I hope not, Watson.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Look, look, here comes another visitor of our path. Stranger,
- 10:07this term big savage looking fellow that.
- 10:10Speaker 5: My dear Watson, is none other than the famous doctor
- 10:12Leon Sterndale.
- 10:13Speaker 3: Sterndale, the lan hunter and explorer.
- 10:16Speaker 4: Exactly that's what he doing in this neighborhood. Oh, I've
- 10:21heard he owns a little cottage about five miles down
- 10:23the coast.
- 10:24Speaker 5: They told me he lives there. Absolutely by himself when
- 10:27he isn't off on one of his expeditions. Never mind, Watson,
- 10:30I'll do the honors myself.
- 10:33Speaker 6: Come in, doctor.
- 10:34Speaker 4: Sterndale, Come in, mister Rols. Yes, and this is my
- 10:37friend doctor Watson. You do you do, mister Holmes, I've
- 10:42come to you about the tragedy to Danik Walter.
- 10:45Speaker 6: The police are utterly at a loss. You have a
- 10:47keener brain.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Pardon me, doctor Sterndale, but why are you so concerned
- 10:53in this affair?
- 10:53Speaker 6: Well?
- 10:54Speaker 4: You see, during my many residences in this locality, I've
- 10:58come to know the family of Tregennis. Well, I see there.
- 11:03Their horrible fate has been a great shock to me,
- 11:05mister Holmes. I am so sorry. As a matter of fact,
- 11:09I was on my way to Africa that god, as
- 11:11far as Plymouth when the news reached me this morning.
- 11:14I came straight back to helping the inquiry. But that
- 11:18would make you lose your ship one sale for Africa
- 11:21this afternoon. If I'm not mistaken, I can take the next.
- 11:26When did you last see the Triguennis family, Doctor Sterndale.
- 11:29I saw Brenda, mister Guinnis three days ago, just as
- 11:34I was leaving the Plymouth, Oh so you have been
- 11:39in Plymouth for the last three days.
- 11:41Speaker 6: Yes, in Plymouth. But how did you get the news
- 11:44so quickly?
- 11:45Speaker 5: Surely the Plymouth papers didn't carry an account of the
- 11:47matter in this morning's edition. I received a telegram telegram,
- 11:52might I ask from whom you're very inquisitive, mister Holmes.
- 11:56Speaker 4: It is my business, doctor Sterndale.
- 11:59Speaker 6: Very well.
- 12:01Speaker 4: The telegram was sent by the vicar, mister Rouncy. I
- 12:05see now, mister Holmes, have you reached any conclusions? Conclusions?
- 12:11Speaker 5: No, that would be a trifle premature, But I have
- 12:15every hope of bringing this matter to a satisfactory termination.
- 12:18Speaker 4: Satisfactory to me, that is, would you mind telling me
- 12:21if you were suspicions point in any particular direction.
- 12:25Speaker 5: I I do not feel that this is the moment
- 12:28to answer that question, Doctor Sterndale.
- 12:30Speaker 4: Ah, and I see that I've been wasting my time.
- 12:33I need not prolong this visit.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Get bud, hmm close smile, fellow Doctor Sterndale
- 12:39is home.
- 12:40Speaker 4: He told me more than he realized, Watson. But he
- 12:43knows even more.
- 12:44Speaker 2: How could he if he was in Plymouth?
- 12:46Speaker 6: But was he?
- 12:47Speaker 4: Watson? That statement is something for us to look into.
- 13:05Speaker 1: In just a moment, we'll rejoin Sherlock Holmes as the
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- 14:31hair tonic.
- 14:39Speaker 2: I say, Holmes, must you go on smoking that foul pipe?
- 14:42The atmosphere so thick I can hardly see across the
- 14:44rooms it is, Oh dear, I feel depressed. Who knows
- 14:49what evil thing is talking abroad in this neighborhood night?
- 14:53Speaker 5: The lamp, Watson, it's the gathering twilight that makes a
- 14:55gloomy rubbish.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Okay, Holmes, what about the doctor's turned down?
- 15:00Speaker 4: I think he didn't, No, Watson, I've been in communication
- 15:03with his Plymouth hotel.
- 15:05Speaker 6: His story was correct.
- 15:06Speaker 5: He had been there for the past three days, and
- 15:09he did receive a telegram from the vicar this morning,
- 15:11and he.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Couldn't post they have had anything to do with that
- 15:13Tons tragedy last night.
- 15:15Speaker 4: Quite.
- 15:16Speaker 5: I didn't think he had a connection with the tragedy,
- 15:19but there is a connection with now Watt.
- 15:23Speaker 4: Opened the door. Watson, Ah, my deada could come in,
- 15:26come in year me. You look as though he'd seen
- 15:30a ghost's tracked.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Him down the curse of the family.
- 15:33Speaker 4: He's dead, dead, with that same look of terror on
- 15:35his face. Who is dead?
- 15:36Speaker 2: Autometric Ken has in his study enter taku at his
- 15:38joints cart. My servant found him sitting beside his table,
- 15:41his face turned to the window and just totted with
- 15:43that same convulsion of fear that marked the features of
- 15:45his sister.
- 15:46Speaker 8: Oh my poor parish Satan himself is loose among us.
- 15:50Speaker 4: We are devil, written mister Holmes, devil ridden.
- 16:08Speaker 6: This was his study, mister Holst.
- 16:12Speaker 4: Hmmm, depressing atmosphere, It was worse.
- 16:15Speaker 6: I have the servant open the window. He's quite ill
- 16:17from shock, poor fellow.
- 16:19Speaker 2: What a terrible look on Trigetis's face, and.
- 16:22Speaker 5: The whole body is contorted and convulsed in the very
- 16:24panxysm of fear. You've never seen death in this one before, Watson, No, never,
- 16:30You know of no poison.
- 16:31Speaker 4: That would have this effect. Oh heavens now, h lamp
- 16:35is lit. It's burning over an arm notes, the oil consumed,
- 16:40yet darkness has just set in. Did anyone call of
- 16:43the vicarage of this afternoon?
- 16:45Speaker 8: No, I was out myself, but my servant says he
- 16:48let know it in then Tregellis was alone in my window.
- 16:53The window was shut at the time of his death,
- 16:55but the lamp was lit. Curious the window, let's see No, Yes,
- 17:03by jove, I think I found something.
- 17:05Speaker 2: What's that you're putting in your pocket?
- 17:06Speaker 3: Homes and the lamp?
- 17:08Speaker 4: Of course, the lamp.
- 17:09Speaker 5: Notice this powder which has been spilled on the base
- 17:11of the lamp, red brown powder. Give me an envelope, Watson,
- 17:15I must have these specks of powder.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Are you so excited about the powder?
- 17:18Speaker 5: Homes because it contains the solution of our mystery? Watson,
- 17:21it is the sauce and the solution.
- 17:36Speaker 3: Homes, you haven't touched your supper.
- 17:39Speaker 2: What a fall night.
- 17:41Speaker 3: The wind's rising again.
- 17:42Speaker 4: Oh, have another cup of team. Be quiet.
- 17:44Speaker 2: I don't want to be quiet. I want to talk.
- 17:46I'm tired of waiting here. This seems that blasted wind
- 17:48in the roar of the water down there below? Why
- 17:50did you send for doctor Sterndale because he's an authority
- 17:54obscure African poison poisons. Why are you interested in poisons?
- 17:58Speaker 4: Watson?
- 17:59Speaker 5: There two striking points in common in both cases under observation.
- 18:03In both cases, the atmosphere of the room had a
- 18:05curious effect on.
- 18:06Speaker 4: The persons who first entered it. The housekeeper and the
- 18:09vicar's servant were both overcome, as was the doctor who
- 18:12was called in.
- 18:13Speaker 3: Thought that the room was still suffer when we entered it.
- 18:16Speaker 4: Right, And in each case there was combustion going on
- 18:19in the room, the fire in the first case, the
- 18:23lamp in the second, and the lamp was not necessary.
- 18:25It was still daylight when it was lit.
- 18:27Speaker 3: Yes, but I still learn't see.
- 18:29Speaker 4: Something was burned in.
- 18:30Speaker 5: Each case, which produced an atmosphere causing strange toxic effects
- 18:34an unknown poison. Good heavens, I believe we have a
- 18:37sample of that poison in the brown powders built on
- 18:39the base of the lamb.
- 18:40Speaker 3: Are you going to prove it?
- 18:41Speaker 5: I'm going to burn some of that powder. Notice its effect,
- 18:44Just a small pinch of powder. Yes, perhaps you'd better
- 18:49leave the room, Watson, and leave.
- 18:50Speaker 3: You alone in here.
- 18:51Speaker 2: Certainly not.
- 18:52Speaker 3: I warn you, it's risk game and found that wind.
- 18:56Speaker 2: Come along. Come on, let's get it on with it
- 18:57and get it.
- 18:58Speaker 6: Over very well.
- 19:00Speaker 5: Place your chair opposite mine. Then we can want each
- 19:03other for developments.
- 19:04Speaker 4: If anything alarming happens, we can end the experiment, all right,
- 19:10come on, I'm ready good. I put a pinch of
- 19:14the powder into our lamp.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Oh so mad?
- 19:19Speaker 3: What a hoofy smell?
- 19:21Speaker 4: Mmm, musky, subtle, nauseus.
- 19:27Speaker 3: Listen to the wind, Home, I'm afraid. I don't know
- 19:32why that wind. I can feel my hair rising. Homes,
- 19:39you see it, that cloud bank, whirling black and sinister.
- 19:43Speaker 6: It's monster us.
- 19:45Speaker 2: It's concealing something, something too wicked to imagine.
- 19:48Speaker 3: Homes, It's coming nearer and nearer.
- 19:51Speaker 6: How do you smell it?
- 19:51Speaker 4: Tough on Remiston?
- 19:53Speaker 2: You hear that arms its hoofy hoof beats.
- 19:56Speaker 4: I know what it is.
- 19:56Speaker 3: I can see it. I can't stand it.
- 20:00Speaker 4: What's the love of heaven? Don't get in, don't breathe.
- 20:02Speaker 3: I'll smash the window.
- 20:03Speaker 4: I'll smash.
- 20:05Speaker 2: That's been breathing, Watson, breathe it in it good clean hair?
- 20:13Speaker 4: Oh, why Joe, what an arrow escape? I had no idea.
- 20:17It was so fat I thought I saw though. I
- 20:20know it's a poison.
- 20:21Speaker 5: That affects the nerve centers of the imagination. The train
- 20:24is enough to kill a man who driving trade close
- 20:27That someone knocking at the door, So.
- 20:29Speaker 3: That's when I heard.
- 20:30Speaker 2: It seems cleared out.
- 20:31Speaker 4: Good thing there was a high wind. I'll close the
- 20:33shutter and draw the curtain. Watson, Can you open the
- 20:38door now?
- 20:39Speaker 3: Yes? I think, sir, who my my niece is still shaky.
- 20:45Speaker 5: But ady, mister Holmes who sent Bobby, Yes, come in,
- 20:49not the stand he'll come in.
- 20:52Speaker 6: Hm, you look rather pale, I'll you.
- 20:55Speaker 5: Yes, we've just been conducting a little with the poison
- 21:01that killed to Guinnis you heares, doctor Sterndale? Perhaps you'd
- 21:05like to tell us why you killed Mortimer Gennis.
- 21:08Speaker 6: I preposterous.
- 21:11Speaker 4: You can't prove it.
- 21:12Speaker 5: No, let me tell you how you did it. You
- 21:15came over to the vicarage late this afternoon. You didn't
- 21:18want anyone to know you'd visited to Guennis. He was
- 21:21to let you in himself, but how could you attract
- 21:23his attention? You brought some pebbles with your pink pebbles
- 21:27from a heap beside your house. You threw these at
- 21:30the study window, where you knew t. Gennis was working.
- 21:33I found some of these pebbles on the window sill.
- 21:36Tre Ginnis came downstairs, let you in himself. You had
- 21:39a talk with him, made him light his lamp, place
- 21:42the pinch of the poisoned powder in the flame and
- 21:44left h You all right, mister Holmes, I did kill
- 21:50mortimerer Guinnis, but I'm not guilty of the other atrocity.
- 21:54Speaker 4: I swear I'm not. I believe you, doctor Sterndale. But
- 21:57you know who did it. Perhaps you'd bet tell us
- 22:00about it very well. It was Mortimer tre Guinness what
- 22:05he admitted it before I before he died, Mister Holmes,
- 22:13I've been in love with the Brenda Trigennis for many years.
- 22:17Speaker 6: We were to have been married when my work in
- 22:19Africa was finished.
- 22:21Speaker 4: I've lived so long in places where man is a
- 22:23law unto himself.
- 22:26Speaker 6: He killed Brenda in cold blood.
- 22:29Speaker 3: He killed her.
- 22:31Speaker 6: I have nothing else to live for.
- 22:34Speaker 4: Why him I do it again?
- 22:36Speaker 5: How did Mortimer t Guinnis get hold of the poison?
- 22:39It was something unusual, almost unknown.
- 22:42Speaker 4: Yes, it was powder piably diable devil's foot eh, Yes,
- 22:47a root found in Africa shaped like a foot, half human,
- 22:50half goat, like I have.
- 22:52Speaker 5: The only specimen in England, and you showed it to Tregennis. Yes,
- 22:56he came over the other afternoon when I was packing.
- 23:00Speaker 4: He was interested in my African curiosities, particularly this powder.
- 23:04Speaker 6: How he took it, I can't say.
- 23:06Speaker 4: I thought no more of the matter until I received
- 23:08the vicger's telegram and learned how they died.
- 23:13Speaker 6: I returned at once.
- 23:14Speaker 4: I looking into the tragedy, I was convinced Mortimertri Gennis
- 23:18was the murderer, that he'd done it to gain control
- 23:21of the family fortune.
- 23:23Speaker 6: There was the crime, but what was to be his punishment?
- 23:27Speaker 4: What jury would believe such a fantastic story? Oh, I
- 23:33decided to take the law into my own hands. Perhaps
- 23:38if you ever loved anyone, you know how I felt.
- 23:43Speaker 5: Hm, Doctor Standale, what were your plans when you set
- 23:48out for Plymouth.
- 23:49Speaker 4: I had intended to bury myself in Central Africa. My
- 23:53work is only half fifth.
- 23:55Speaker 5: Go and finish the other half, doctor Standale. I do
- 23:58not feel called upon to prevent you.
- 24:05Speaker 4: En