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The Devil's Foot: While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers. Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Denis Quilley.
The Devil's Foot: While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers. Starring: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Denis Quilley.
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00:00David Starr
02:30Listen, Holmes.
02:31Dr. Moore-Agar insists you have a complete rest if you wish to avoid an absolute breakdown.
02:38The sea air will do you the world of good.
02:40You should have travelled alone, Watson.
02:45Nonsense.
02:47We're on holiday.
02:48Oh, it's wonderful, Holmes.
02:55Oh, it's wonderful, Holmes.
03:04Why, it's wonderful, Holmes, wonderful.
03:18The views are spectacular.
03:22We're overlooking the most dangerous piece of coastline in the country.
03:26Your friend is a natural historian, I presume.
03:29An old acquaintance from my college days.
03:31I'll see you for the luggage.
03:45Good day to you, sir.
03:53Oh.
03:53Well, I thought as we were going to be neighbours for the next few weeks, I ought to say a few words of welcome.
04:00How very kind.
04:02And, of course, I've long wanted to meet Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
04:06It is indeed a pleasure, sir.
04:07Thank you, and I'm Dr. John Watson.
04:11Oh.
04:15Come in.
04:19This is my good friend, Sherlock Holmes.
04:22A thousand apologies, I should have realised.
04:24Do come in, Mr. Rounding.
04:25Very stupid of me.
04:28How did you know my name?
04:31You have an interest in archaeology, do you not?
04:34Why, yes.
04:35The deuce Watson, come.
04:37The deuce.
04:40You've got mud on the points of your shoes, and beneath your knees, and on the fingers of your right hand.
04:48Which indicates that you've knelt on the ground for a length of time.
04:51Oh, Watson, you're coming along marvellously.
04:53You're a left-handed gardener.
04:54You're a student of archaeology.
04:56You've published a paper of the theories surrounding Neolithic burial rites.
05:00You are the Reverend Francis Roundhay, vicar of the parish of Danek Wallace.
05:03Astonishing, sir.
05:09Please, sit down.
05:12But left-handed?
05:15The hand with which you hold the trowel.
05:18Exactly right.
05:20Precise in every detail.
05:22But how, sir?
05:23How?
05:23Vicar, vicar, vicar.
05:25The parish magazine.
05:26It's all...
05:27The village is nearby.
05:38Oh, yes.
05:39Just along the coastal path.
05:40It's secluded, but it caters for all our needs.
05:43Is that the nearest habitation?
05:45No, no.
05:45The Tregenis estate is about a mile inland.
05:49Very nice people, and I'm sure they'll extend to you some fine Cornish hospitality.
05:56However, I've imposed enough upon you for one day.
05:59Perhaps you'd care to come and have dinner with me one evening at the vicarage?
06:03Well, then we should impose upon you and your family.
06:06Oh, no, alas.
06:07I have no family.
06:08I live alone, except for Mr. Tregenis, who has a suite of rooms in the house.
06:11But does he not live on the estate?
06:13Our family dispute.
06:16His sister and two brothers live there, but he chooses to live apart.
06:20Do you know, dinner at the vicarage is a splendid idea.
06:29We must arrange a date.
06:35Yes, well, of course, gentlemen.
06:38Good day to you.
06:43Good morning.
07:07Cornish hospitality.
07:17Weather-bitted slabs of granite.
07:21Ancient tombs.
07:23Scattered throughout the length and breadth of this peninsula.
07:26Like the sea.
07:29I suppose death is always with us.
07:32Quite so.
07:39Quite so.
07:39Quite often during those days in Cornwall, Holmes would strike out alone.
08:02The mystery and glamour of the place, with its sinister atmosphere of forgotten nations,
08:09appealed to the imagination of my friend.
08:12He spent much of his time in long walks and solitary meditation.
08:17никаких楽 demokratically.
08:18I suppose we must endure.
08:25And I took minutes to win the 솔.
08:27There it is.
08:28My friend, the island, embolia is saying,
08:28I bet you are in love, but they can't let myself go in.
08:29Yeah
08:30So love you.
08:30I untround the unanimously.
08:31I trust you actually do anything.
08:31I trust you to live in.
08:32I trust you, I could depart now.
08:34Boom, I Rogers.
08:35I trust you.
08:35Lets me and I trust you.
08:36While you're in love.
08:37I trust you.
08:39Let me trust you.
08:39I trust you.
08:40Make the то every news.
08:41One morning, however, my friend's convalescence was violently interrupted.
09:07Gentlemen, I urge you to consult the police. Holmes is a sick man.
09:14Yes, but getting better all the time, Watson.
09:21This is a matter of some emergency.
09:25Mr. Holmes, Mr. Holmes, we can only regard it as a special providence that you should chance to be here at this time.
09:33For in all England, you are the one man we truly need.
09:36I've tried to explain to Mr. Tregenis and Mr. Roundhay that you're in convalescence.
09:40I'm sure they'll be very sympathetic. Please, sit down.
09:45The fact is, as I've explained to Dr. Watson, the most extraordinary and tragic affair has occurred here during the night.
09:54You had my full attention.
09:57Perhaps I'd better say a few words first.
10:00This is Mr. Tregenis, of whom I spoke.
10:03Now, Mr. Tregenis spent last night in the company of his brother George and Owen and his sister Brenda at their house at Tradanic Water.
10:14He left them, playing cards around the dining table in excellent health and spirits.
10:20But on his return this morning, he discovered a truly bizarre state of affairs.
10:27All three, both alive and dead, retained upon their faces an expression of utmost horror.
10:35How dare.
10:37A convulsion of terror.
10:42Which was dreadful to look upon.
10:46Was there any sign of anyone else in the house?
10:48Only Mrs. Porter, cook and housekeeper.
10:52She'd slept deeply and heard no sound in the night.
10:55Is anything missing?
10:57Disarranged?
11:00Nothing, Mr. Holmes.
11:02What could possibly frighten a young woman to death and two strong men out of their senses?
11:06Yes, wouldn't he?
11:07I'm sure, Holmes, that the local police will have reached some conclusions.
11:12I have an erroneous thing, maybe.
11:14Holmes.
11:16Think.
11:17Tell me about last night, Mr. Tregenis.
11:22Well, Mr. Holmes.
11:27I supped there, as the vicar has said.
11:31And my elder brother George
11:34proposed a game of whist afterwards.
11:38We were a quarter past ten when I moved to go.
11:41Who let you out?
11:43Mrs. Porter had gone to bed, so I let myself out.
11:45The window of the room in which they sat was closed.
11:49But the blind was not drawn down.
11:52There was no change in Darwin, nor this morning.
11:56Nor any reason to think that any stranger had been to the end.
12:02Yet there they sat.
12:05Driven clean mad with terror.
12:09I'll never get his eye to that room out of my mind as long as I live.
12:14Yes, the facts are most remarkable.
12:21Mr. Tregenis, do you have any theory of your own which might account for them?
12:25It is devilish.
12:27Devilish, Mr. Holmes.
12:30It is not of this world.
12:31Well, if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.
12:37I trust so, Holmes.
12:38Mr. Holmes.
12:44Now think.
12:46Think very carefully, Mr. Tregenis, about the evening that you spent together.
12:51Does anything stand out in your memory which might throw some light upon this tragedy?
12:58There is nothing, Mr. Holmes.
13:02Were there nervous people?
13:04Did they ever show any sign of apprehension?
13:07Not to my knowledge, Mr. Holmes.
13:08Then there is nothing in which you can assist me.
13:18There is one thing that occurs to me.
13:21As I sat at the table, my back was to the window.
13:24And my brother George, he being my partner at Carr's, was facing it.
13:30I saw him once look hard over my shoulder.
13:33So I turned round and looked also.
13:35The blind was up and the window shut.
13:40But I could just make out the bougies on the lawn.
13:43It seemed to me for a moment that I saw something moving among them.
13:48I couldn't even say if it were man or animal.
13:53But I just thought I saw something there.
13:56Did you not investigate?
13:59The matter passed as unimportant.
14:02Did you have any premonition of evil?
14:05None that I was aware of.
14:07How did you hear the terrible news so early this morning?
14:10I am an early riser.
14:12I generally take a walk before breakfast.
14:14This morning I had hardly started when Dr. Richards overtook me in his carriage.
14:18Mr. Pergenius, I've just had an urgent message from your sister's house.
14:25What's happened?
14:26I'm not quite sure, sir.
14:28But you'd better come with me.
14:29She's been dead at least six hours.
14:41No sign of violence.
14:46How?
14:47I've never seen the like, Mr. Dr. Richards.
14:53Not in all my years.
14:59Are you all right?
15:00I've got you.
15:01I've got you.
15:03Over here.
15:06There we go.
15:08We nearly had him on our hands as well.
15:10Where are you going, Holmes?
15:11Vigilic water without delay.
15:12With your permission, Mr. Holmes, I'll go on ahead.
15:13Thank you, Vicar.
15:14Quickly, otherwise we'll be there before you.
15:15Holmes, I must protest.
15:16Save your protestations for later, Watson.
15:17Much later.
15:18I gather you were divided in some way from your family.
15:19Very so, Mr. Holmes.
15:20Though the matter is past and done with,
15:22all was forgiven and forgotten and we were the best of friends.
15:25We were a family of tin miners at Red Rooth,
15:27sold out our venture to a company,
15:30and so retired with enough to keep us.
15:33All was forgiven and forgotten and we were the best of friends.
15:38We were a family of tin miners at Red Rooth,
15:40sold out our venture to a company,
15:43and so retired with enough to keep us,
15:45retired, with enough to keep us.
15:48I won't deny there was some
15:49bad feeling over the division of the money.
15:51They stood between us for a number of years.
15:54Nevertheless,
16:00you decided not to leave
16:01Cornwall. I suppose I
16:03entertained some hopes of returning
16:05home one day.
16:08Holmes!
16:14Holmes, stand back!
16:15Holmes!
16:24My brothers!
16:25They're taking them to us!
16:27It's a lovely house, Mr. Treganis.
16:53It's a very sad house.
16:54This is the window from which you saw the shadowy form.
16:59Approximately what distance was it from the glass?
17:05Say not less than ten feet.
17:08I guess.
17:11About here.
17:13There's no sign of a forced entry.
17:15Then the window, of course, would have remained locked.
17:17My sister made sure of that.
17:19Even in common, we'll burglate you.
17:20So, dreadfully so.
17:22It's quite all right, Mr. Holmes.
17:25An accident.
17:39Could you let Mrs. Porter on the way back?
17:41I should like to meet the housekeeper.
18:12Of course.
18:13Oh, but please try to avoid causing further distress.
18:17Death is always distressing, Mr. Treganis.
18:21Ah.
18:23The chance.
18:25Well, they must have been moved after the police left the house.
18:29That one here, Mr. Holmes.
18:31One over there.
18:32This one here.
18:34This one.
18:35Well, we're here.
18:39Has anything else been moved?
18:42All is as I remember it.
18:45You must understand there was a great deal of fuss and confusion when I arrived this morning.
18:49These may have been moved, I thought, given to their significance in a criminal investigation.
18:54Criminal?
18:56That is a very interesting word.
18:58So you no longer subscribe to the theory of a supernatural explanation?
19:02Well, I don't know.
19:07Where were people sitting?
19:10I sat here facing Georgie.
19:13My brother George.
19:14My inner sat next to me.
19:17Owning a crossbar.
19:19Well, that's curious.
19:20What?
19:21I mean, from this position.
19:24The figure outside of the window must have been well over six feet.
19:27I can only tell you what I saw, Mr. Holmes.
19:33Ah, this is my housekeeper.
19:37Mrs. Porter.
19:39I'd like you to meet these gentlemen, my dear.
19:46She was so beautiful.
19:51So beautiful.
19:54She is still very upset.
19:58We're all very upset, Mr. Roundhay.
20:01Go and sit down.
20:03I will not stay in this house one moment longer than I have to, sir.
20:09I shall rejoin my family in St. Ives.
20:12But you're part of our family.
20:15Your family, Trogenis, is dead, sir.
20:18Dead or as good as.
20:21I'm still alive.
20:22Mrs. Porter.
20:31Excuse me now.
20:33Mrs. Porter.
20:43My name is Sherlock Holmes.
20:46And I'd like you to tell me all that you know.
20:47Mr. Holmes is a detective.
20:52He's going to try and find out what happened to Brenda.
20:54Don't you worry.
20:57Please.
20:58Leave nothing.
20:59I can tell you very little, Mr. Holmes.
21:04Oh, you'll be cheating.
21:14I am not cheating.
21:15Owen, will you tell your dear sister to play by the room?
21:20She's your sister, too.
21:21You tell her.
21:23But she's on your side.
21:25It's rather late, and I do have to get back to the vicarage.
21:27Mortimer, you must stay here for the night.
21:37Oh, please say you will.
21:40Well, don't force him to stay if he doesn't want to, Brenda.
21:44Oh, really?
21:46I thought we'd put an end to our squabbling.
21:48And Mortimer is just as much my brother as you and Jargie.
21:52Don't worry, dear brother.
21:55I mean, nowhere I'm not welcome.
21:57And why visit us at all?
21:58You disowned us!
22:00Or have you forgotten?
22:02We'll be all right now, Beth, if you wish to retire.
22:05Is Mr. Trigganis staying with us tonight?
22:07Why?
22:08Do you also object to my presence, Mrs. Porter?
22:11Mortimer!
22:12I want to know, should I air your room, sir?
22:20Sorry.
22:22Thank you, Beth.
22:26That'll be quite all right.
22:28Mr. Trigganis will not be staying.
22:31Very good, Miss Brenda.
22:33It's a custom to have a foul in the room at this time of year.
22:36It was a cold and damp night, Mr. Holmes.
22:39I must say, I thought it was rather humid.
22:42I suffer with a mild blood disorder.
22:44Feel the cold on even warm nights.
22:47I know how you feel.
22:49By Mrs. Porter.
22:50Was the door to this room closed when you went to this morning?
22:53Oh, certainly, sir.
22:56Nightingale, as she sings in the nightingale.
23:03As they sing in the ballet below.
23:06As they sing in...
23:08When I recovered, I threw wide the window to let in the morning air.
23:29Then I ran down to the lane and sent a farm lad for the doctor.
23:38And the rest, I think you know, sir.
23:47Mrs. Porter's right.
23:49She's very beautiful.
23:50Yes, but something's missing.
23:53Trigganis is lying about a mild blood disorder.
23:56I'll stick my reputation on that.
23:57Well, we'll see.
23:58What's up?
24:23What's up?
24:25Look at this.
24:32That's very unusual.
24:41It won't do.
24:42It won't do.
24:44Three people grievously stricken by some conscious or unconscious human agency.
24:48Now, when exactly did this event occur?
24:56They'd finished playing cards.
24:59It was past their usual Arthur bed.
25:02Apparently, the chairs had not been pulled back from the table.
25:04Well, it must have been only moments after Trigganis left the house.
25:08Yes, exactly.
25:13You were conscious, of course, how I managed to obtain a clearer impress of his foot.
25:17Yes, I guess something was all right.
25:19Having got a sample print, I could pick out his tracks among the others and follow his movements.
25:32For the length of his stride, he returned swiftly to the vicarage.
25:37Well, if Trigganis disappeared, then almost instantly some other person affected the card plan.
25:45Now, how can we reconstruct that person?
25:48But is there any evidence, really, Watson, that anyone did creep up to that window?
25:55The only suggestion comes from Trigganis, who says that his brother reacted to some movement in the garden.
26:03How is this impression of horror conveyed?
26:14You're Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the detective.
26:18And you are Dr. Leon Sturndale, the great lion hunter and famous African explorer.
26:24Have you made any progress?
26:26Some.
26:27The county police are utterly at fault.
26:29Tell me what you know about the fate of the Trigganis family.
26:33What is your interest, Dr. Sturndale?
26:37My claim to be taken into your confidence
26:39is that during my many residences here,
26:43I have come to know this family of Trigganis very well.
26:45Indeed, upon my Cornish mother's side,
26:49I may call them cousins.
26:51So their strange fate has naturally been a great shock to me.
26:56Do you know of anything that could help us in our inquiry?
27:00Nothing at all.
27:01I may tell you that I had got as far as Plymouth
27:04upon my way to Africa when news reached me.
27:07I came straight back here to help in any way I can.
27:16Did you lose your boat?
27:19I will take the next.
27:20That is friendship indeed.
27:26I tell you, they were relatives.
27:28Did your baggage go on with the boat?
27:31Some of it.
27:32Most of it remained in the hotel.
27:34Surely this event could not have found its way
27:37into the Plymouth morning papers.
27:39No, sir.
27:40I received a telegram.
27:42From whom?
27:44You are very inquisitive, Mr. Holmes.
27:47It is my business.
27:48The vicar, Mr. Roundy, sent it,
27:52recalling me to Tredanek Wallace.
27:55I see.
27:56May I ask
27:57if your suspicions point in any particular direction?
28:06Well, I can hardly answer that.
28:11Then I'm wasting my time.
28:12To work the brain without sufficient material
28:38is like racing an engine.
28:39It cracks itself to pieces.
28:44Wait for me at the cottage.
28:45Where are you going?
28:47Sherlock Watson.
28:49See air, sunshine, patience.
28:52All will be revealed.
28:54In the road
29:14Please see air, bless the city.
29:18Mr Holmes!
29:42Mr Holmes!
29:44Mr Holmes!
29:45Mr Holmes!
29:46Mr Holmes!
29:47Mr Holmes!
29:48My poor parish is never risen!
29:50We are in control!
29:52What has happened?
29:59Dead about three hours, I'd say.
30:01Same symptoms exactly as Brenda Tregenis.
30:03Limbs convulsed, fingers contorted.
30:05As though he died from a very paroxysm of fear.
30:09That it should happen under my roof.
30:12Has his bed been slept in?
30:14Oh yes, most definitely.
30:44Who opened this window?
30:45My housekeeper.
30:46She was the first into the room this morning.
30:47Where is she now?
30:48Oh!
30:49Oh!
30:50Who opened this window?
30:55who opened this window by my housekeeper she was the first into the room this morning
31:14where is she now oh she's taken to her bed with a severe headache no doubt
31:19greatly affected by the shock I am most terribly sorry to inconvenience you in this way I know you
31:28both came to these parts to rest that isn't easy with Holmes around he likes nothing better than
31:35to sink his teeth into a problem of this sort but two deaths Dr. Watson in the space of two days
31:42this is the work of the devil make no mistake put your faith in the known and tangible Mr.
31:49round
32:05I trust nothing has been touched sir no everything's exactly as it was
32:17right then I'll need a statement from you and your housekeeper oh master I'm afraid she's still rather
32:25you'll check upstairs who are these gentlemen oh mr. Sherlock Holmes and dr. Watson from London I've heard of you mr. Holmes I'd appreciate it if you would lead this inquiry to the official police
32:53as you would you direct the inspector's attention towards the window upstairs of the lamp on the table each is suggestive together they're almost conclusive Watson good afternoon good luck
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34:19where you've been all afternoon there is a single point of resemblance in the
34:27reports that we've heard not this concern the effect on the atmosphere of
34:34the room upon those who first entered it first dr. Richards then mrs. Porter and
34:44Roundhay's housekeeper was taken the other small in each case there is a
34:52combustion going on in the room in the first case a fire in the second a lamp
34:59now the fire perhaps was necessary but the lamp was lit when it was already
35:06broad daylight a comparison of the oil consumed in this and to get us his lamp
35:12proves that point but why something was burned producing an atmosphere causing a
35:24strange toxic effect in the first instance that of a true Guinness family a
35:30substance was placed in the fire and the fire would carry the fumes to some
35:35extent up the chimney only Brenda true Guinness was closest to the fire was
35:40killed her brothers exhibiting that lunacy which is evident the first effect of
35:48the drug the other case of course the result was complete poison which works my
35:57combustion now the obvious place to look was the smoke guard of the lamp to
36:06Guinness's room there sure enough I perceived a number of flaky ashes and round the
36:12edges a fringe of brownish powder which had not yet been consumed half of this I took the
36:19other half I left for the police we will see if we can reproduce the same effect with our own lamp
36:27oh no Holmes that's insane I cannot force you to stay but I mean to have the answer
36:36of course I shall stay I thought I knew by Watson would you open the door please
36:56now would you like to just sit there
37:00are you ready
38:33Holmes!
38:35Holmes!
38:36Holmes!
38:37For God's sake, can you hear me?
38:41John!
38:42Thank God you're all right.
38:43That was a stupid and dangerous thing to do.
38:44We could have been killed.
38:45We could have been killed.
38:46It was unjustified an experiment even for myself, doubly so for a friend.
38:52I really am extremely sorry.
38:53I really am extremely sorry.
38:54I really am extremely sorry.
38:55I really am extremely sorry.
38:56I really am extremely sorry.
38:57I am so sorry.
38:58I am so sorry.
38:59I am so sorry.
39:00It was an unjustified experiment even for myself, doubly so for a friend.
39:06I really am extremely sorry.
39:07I am so sorry.
39:13I am so sorry.
39:14All the evidence points to Trigenis being the criminal in the first tragedy and victim
39:20in the second.
39:21all the evidence points to Tregenis being the criminal in the first tragedy and victim in the
39:39second yes anyone else come in the family was certainly risen from the table then
39:44Tregenis's own death was suicide that'll be Dr. Leon Sterndale would you let me please come in Dr.
40:04Sterndale you're expected I had your note about an hour ago but let me state directly I don't take
40:14kindly to being summoned by anybody I thought it better discuss the matter here no risk of
40:21eavesdropping I fail to see so what you can have to speak about which affects me personally in the
40:28most intimate fashion the killing of Mortimer Tregenis I've lived so long among savages and
40:39beyond the law well I've got into the way of being a law unto myself you would do well Mr. Holmes to
40:48remember that for I have no desire to do you an injury nor are you Dr. Sterndale but surely the
40:56clearest proof it is that knowing what I know that I've said for you and not for the police
41:01if this is a bluff upon your part sir you have chosen the wrong man for your experiment no no no
41:07bluff is upon your side not upon mine now I will tell you the facts upon which my conclusions are
41:15based of your return from Plymouth and allowing much of your property to go on to Africa I shall say
41:20nothing except that informed me that you were one of the factors which had to be taken into account in
41:27the reconstructing of this drama this telegram from the hotel confirms what you told me now when we last
41:37met you asked me whom I suspected but I refused to answer you then you departed but you didn't go home
41:45oh no Dr. Sterndale you went to the vicarage and you waited there for some time how do you know that I
41:54followed you I saw no one that is what you may expect to see when I follow you you spent a
42:03restless night we made certain plans and that in the early hours you proceeded to put them into action
42:13you returned to the vicarage collected some distinctive red gravel from the cliff path
42:23the house by now is in daylight but the inhabitants were not stirring
42:35you threw some red gravel up at the window of the larger tregenis
42:41sturdale
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42:59I must speak with you urgently
43:03please how
43:05the doors are locked the housekeeper is the case it is of the utmost importance
43:20you entered through the sitting room window
43:24you had an interview a short one and you walked up and down the room
43:30you withdrew as you had come you were wearing the same pair of studied walking shoes which at the
43:40present moment are upon your feet when mortina tregenis was there
43:46the ring you gave brenda tregenis
43:55yes
43:59yes
44:04brenda tregenis
44:10for years i loved her
44:26for years she loved me
44:31there is the secret of the
44:33cornish seclusion
44:35which people so marveled at
44:40it brought me close to the one person on this earth
44:44who was dear to me
44:49i couldn't marry her
44:51for i had a wife who left me
44:54but whom by the deplorable laws of england
44:57i could not divorce
45:01for years brenda waited
45:05for years i waited
45:12and this was what we waited for
45:13randay knew
45:22he was in our confidence hence his telegram to me at blimith
45:26what was my baggage
45:28or africa to me
45:31when i learned that such a fate had befallen my darling
45:37there you have the missing clue to my actions mr holmes
45:41i understand that you sir are a doctor of medicine
45:59have you ever heard of radix pedis diaboli
46:04devil's foot root
46:06no i can't say that i have no
46:10well it is no reflection upon your professional knowledge
46:13for i believe that save for one sample in a laboratory in buddha there is no other specimen
46:17in europe it is used as an ordeal of poison
46:23by the medicine men in certain districts of west africa
46:27and it is kept as a secret by them
46:29you already know so much mr holmes
46:36it is clearly to my interest that you should know all
46:42i've already explained the relationship in which i stood to the tregenis family
46:49there had been a quarrel about money which estranged this man mortimer a sly
46:54subtle scheming man
46:56but for brenda's sake i was friendly with her brother
47:00one day a few weeks ago
47:02he came to my cottage
47:04and i showed him some of my african curiosities
47:08among other things
47:10i exhibited the devil's foot
47:14poison you say
47:16fascinating
47:17you wouldn't think so if you were to try it
47:20the smallest amount could be fatal
47:22in this powder form it reacts instantaneously when burned
47:27it stimulates those brain centers which control the emotion of fear
47:32madness
47:33or death
47:35is the fate of the unfortunate native
47:38who is subjected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe
47:42can he be detected
47:44not by european science
47:46a few days later my cottage was broken into
47:52but since nothing seemed to have been taken i gave the matter no heed
47:56until mr roundy's telegram arrived at plymouth
47:59this villain mortimer had thought that i would be at sea before news reached me
48:07and that i should be lost for years in africa
48:11but of course i returned immediately
48:14and i could not hear the details without being assured that it was my poison which had been used
48:21and that mortimer tregenis himself
48:26was the murderer
48:30my soul cried out for revenge
48:33oh you murdered her for money you murdered your own sister you can't prove that
48:42no jury in the lab would believe you i'm my own jury mr tregenis
48:47judge jury and executioner
49:01oh
49:17I lit the lamp.
49:20I put the powder above it.
49:39In five minutes, he died.
49:44My God, how he died.
49:47But my heart was flint.
49:53For he endured nothing which my innocent darling had not suffered before him.
50:06You can take what steps you like, Mr. Holmes.
50:11But there can be no man living
50:12who fears death less than I do now.
50:17What were your plans?
50:30I was intending to bury myself in Central Africa.
50:33My work there is but half done.
50:45Go ahead and do the other half.
50:46I, for one, am not prepared to stop you.
50:54God bless you.
51:06Both of you.
51:07Not for the first time, Holmes.
51:20Holmes, you presume to take the law into your own hands.
51:24I have never loved.
51:30But if I did, and if the woman I had loved had met with such an end,
51:37I might act, even as our lawless lion hunter has done.
51:43Wouldn't you?
51:43Wouldn't you?
51:48Yes, I suppose so.
51:51But that's not the point.
51:52The point is, why should I do the work of the official police?
51:55Yes, and as you're very fond of telling me,
52:00I'm on holiday.
52:01I'm on holiday.
52:01I'm on holiday.
52:02I don't know.
52:32I don't know.
53:02I don't know.
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