September 12, 2024 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Dark, fanta see the sleeping dead. I'll just lie quietly,
(00:40):
mister Wentworth cotton nurse, yes, doctor and a septic yes.
Pulse normal, temperature normal. How long have you had these symptoms,
mister Wentworth? About two weeks? Have you been walking with
a limp as long as two weeks? Yes? I have.
When did you first notice the injury? Oh it must
(01:03):
have been six months ago. Yes, at least not long ago.
There was a slight swelling in the black and blue mark.
Then it disappeared. I thought nothing more of it until
my leg began painting me two weeks ago. I see,
is there much pain now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
None? The uh leg feels numb. Mm let me see
the x raised nurse, hear the eye. Doctor. It got
so I couldn't stand on the leg more than an
hour at a time, and I began walking with a
cane after that. About three weeks ago, I couldn't put
weight on it at all, and I had to buy
(01:41):
the crutches. Who suggested the crutches? Why no, one? You
should have seen a doctor two months ago. I didn't
suspect that anything was wrong. Two months ago, you you
might have saved your leg, saved my leg yes, I'm sorry,
mister Wentworth. Will have to be amputated at once.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh no, lose my leg, lose my leg, lose my leg. No, doctor, no,
you can't, you can't.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'm afraid, mister Wentworth. It isn't a matter of canner can't.
None of us have any choice in the matter now.
But but doctor, naturally, I can't compel you to undergo
the operation. The choice is up to you. But if
you refuse, I cannot take your case or be responsible
(02:38):
for your life. My life, yes, unless that limb is
removed instantly. I'm afraid, mister Wentworth. A poison in your
body will never stop until it has reached your brain.
It's that bad. It's more serious than I can tell you. Yes, faverrewell, doctor,
(03:03):
do what you think is best. Oh no, what was that? Nurse?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Nothing, doctor Mason?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Nothing, Prepare this man for surgery? Yes, doctor, Have you
any any people you wish to notify mister Wentworth?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
No one, no one who would care. You have no
living relative? Do you I know what makes you ask?
I didn't think so. I mean we want to be
sure relatives are notified in cases such as this. No,
(03:46):
there's no one you'll profound the operation at once. There
is just one thing I don't understand. Yes, what's that?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I don't know how I got here?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You fainted. You were found unconscious by by one of
my assistants. He saw that you needed medical attention, so
he hurried you. Here. Your name doctor Mason, Doctor Clarence Mason.
I see, and the hospital this isn't a hospital? But
(04:24):
well then where am I? You were at my private
sanitarium sanitarium? Yes, I just like quietly please? But which sanitarium?
You might as well know now you will sooner or later.
This is fair Child Sanitarium, fair Child, the sanitarium on
(04:49):
the island. Yes, but fair Child has been closed for
ten years, has it? Why? Well? Yes, I I used
to work there just before it closed. Yes, I know
you do. Don't you remember me Wentworth? No? No, I've
(05:12):
never seen you before. Certainly you have look at me closely,
look into my eyes. Imagine me without this beard, Picture
me as you think I might have looked ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Holts Abraham holes. You see you hadn't forgotten me. But
don't you wish you had?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Holes? No, it can't possibly be. Do you remember Wentworth?
That I once told you nothing is impossible for Abraham Holtes.
It is you Holts. Yes, I finally caught up with you,
caught up with me. Yes, I warned you ten years
(06:06):
ago that you would suffer for what you did to me,
what I did to you. Of course, you thought your
testimony against me would give you a good position at
the sanitarium, didn't you. Fight. Testimony against you was given regretfully,
but in good faith, good faith, you say, ha, ha,
good faith. Indeed, you thought by ridding the sanitarium of me,
(06:30):
you would win your way into the good graces of
doctor Vansickl. Doctor Vansikel died about a week after your trial. Yes,
a pity and strange, wasn't it. What do you mean
that the man who spoiled out the charges against me
(06:51):
didn't live two hundred hours afterwards? You, I said there
was something strange about vansiickeleld'sday. But whatever it was, it
completely baffled the experts. Yes, they are so easily baffled. Poor,
stupid and incompoops. You kill fancycle. Do you think you
(07:12):
could prove that wentworth You were supposed to be in
the penitentiary at the time. Yes, and so I was
what I was in the penitentiary. I am now now
now you say, yes, indeed, did you forget my sentence
(07:33):
was for life? I could hardly serve a sentence like
that in ten years you escaped in a sense, What
do you mean? I haven't the inclination to explain it
to you now, suffice it to say it has been
impossible from the first to imprison the one whom you
(07:56):
first knew as doctor Abraham Holst. How could you be
in prison and here at the same time mad? You're mad? Completely?
Oh that is probably what the doctors would say, yes,
but I repeat their plain out and out. Stupidity is
(08:20):
as amazing as it is alarming. I'm getting out of here,
out of here, Yes, of course, go right ahead, you
bet I will. I'm going to get out of here
so fast. I well, something delaying you went with, I like,
(08:42):
I can't move it. What have you done to me?
I have merely made it a little inconvenient for you
to leave you, you devil. I think that's what you said
wentworth in the court room when you testified against me
(09:04):
ten years ago. Remember remember what you said wentworth? I do,
I remember quite distinctly what you said.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
You've asked me to testify in this court. Just what
my reaction has been to the practices of doctor Abraham Holtz. Oh, gentlemen,
When I first came to Fairchild Sanitarium, doctor Holtz was
apparently a normal, capable, practicing surgeon with a very extraordinary ability.
But then he began to change. Yes, change, He ceased
(09:42):
to be human. Yes, he he became more like a devil.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's it. He became more like a devil. H you
remember that, don't you Wentworth? Why only said what I
thought was true? You did cease to be human. You
treated me and the rest of the interns like we
were beasts. You were like beasts to me. Suddenly every
(10:09):
one became beast like because suddenly I found myself in
a position that put me far above every other human
on earth, made all mankind to me like beasts are
to man. What do you mean found yourself in a position?
(10:30):
Some time? Went worth? Sometime soon perhaps you'll know. Ah,
the electric warning. Someone has just entered the front door
of the sanitarium. I must leave you now, But first,
what are you doing while I am gone? You must rest?
(10:50):
Get away, get away, get away. An injection of this,
went Worth. The quiet you nor nor give away from
me while there. What will happen next will probably amaze you. You,
(11:17):
you devil, You persist in calling me that do you
very well? Went Worth? At first, I was going to
take only one of your legs in exchange for what
you did to me with your testimony. Now I shall
(11:39):
take them both. No, no, no, you can't do a
thing like that to me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Is that anason here, Miss Young? Yes, I have an
apartment with the doctor. Go away, miss go away quickly?
Oh please please? I beg you, I beg you to
go away before it's too late, too late. Yes, there's
nothing but trouble for you here.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Trouble. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I tell you? I can't just just go away, miss
Young while there's still time.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Perhaps nurse, Miss Young doesn't wish to go.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Away, Doctor Hosts, please.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It will go take care of the patient and surgery nurse. Yes, doctor,
I must apologize, Miss Young. You see, my nurse is
quite upset. One of our surgeons operated this morning under
(13:05):
most adverse conditions. A death resulted. The nurse has been
quite upset about it all day because, well, to be
quite frank, the surgeon was her brother. I'd warned him
an operation would be fatal to the patient, but he
went ahead anyway while I was away from the sanitarium.
(13:25):
When I came back, I did everything I could resuscitate
the patient, but I were just minutes too late. I
was compelled to discharge of the surgeon for my staff.
His sister is merely upset about the whole thing. She
called you, doctor Holds. But yes, I heard her. She
(13:49):
called you doctor Holds. Did she Well, that's her brother's name.
She's so confused about everything.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh but no, I said, No, that isn't her brother's name.
It's your name, doctor, Miss Young. Yes, when you telephoned
me yesterday, I knew there was something about your voice
I vaguely recognized. Now I know you are doctor Abraham Holst.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You always were a very keen and intelligent woman, Miss Young. Doctor,
it's nice to see you again. Linda, you escaped from
prison in a way.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You lured me here, pretended you needed a supervisor for
your sanitarium. I should have known better. Yes, Linda, perhaps
you should have What do you want? I thought perhaps
we could have a good laugh together over my court trial.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
La. Yes, just so you remember don't you that it
was partially your testimony that sent me to prison. You
had a fair trial? Are you so very certain I did?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Of course, you had every opportunity to explain your devilish actions, but.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You refused devilish actions.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yes, you were a devil.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's what he said just a few moments ago. Who
went with Paul? Yes, and both of you call me
a devil when you testified at my trial, y Paul.
Now you will see him, my dear, much sooner than
you expect. What do you mean I have great plans
for you, Linda, Yes, for you, Ann went Worth.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You were supposed to serve life in prison, life life,
you say,
Dark, fanta see the sleeping dead. I'll just lie quietly,
(00:40):
mister Wentworth cotton nurse, yes, doctor and a septic yes.
Pulse normal, temperature normal. How long have you had these symptoms,
mister Wentworth? About two weeks? Have you been walking with
a limp as long as two weeks? Yes? I have.
When did you first notice the injury? Oh it must
(01:03):
have been six months ago. Yes, at least not long ago.
There was a slight swelling in the black and blue mark.
Then it disappeared. I thought nothing more of it until
my leg began painting me two weeks ago. I see,
is there much pain now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
None? The uh leg feels numb. Mm let me see
the x raised nurse, hear the eye. Doctor. It got
so I couldn't stand on the leg more than an
hour at a time, and I began walking with a
cane after that. About three weeks ago, I couldn't put
weight on it at all, and I had to buy
(01:41):
the crutches. Who suggested the crutches? Why no, one? You
should have seen a doctor two months ago. I didn't
suspect that anything was wrong. Two months ago, you you
might have saved your leg, saved my leg yes, I'm sorry,
mister Wentworth. Will have to be amputated at once.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh no, lose my leg, lose my leg, lose my leg. No, doctor, no,
you can't, you can't.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'm afraid, mister Wentworth. It isn't a matter of canner can't.
None of us have any choice in the matter now.
But but doctor, naturally, I can't compel you to undergo
the operation. The choice is up to you. But if
you refuse, I cannot take your case or be responsible
(02:38):
for your life. My life, yes, unless that limb is
removed instantly. I'm afraid, mister Wentworth. A poison in your
body will never stop until it has reached your brain.
It's that bad. It's more serious than I can tell you. Yes, faverrewell, doctor,
(03:03):
do what you think is best. Oh no, what was that? Nurse?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Nothing, doctor Mason?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Nothing, Prepare this man for surgery? Yes, doctor, Have you
any any people you wish to notify mister Wentworth?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
No one, no one who would care. You have no
living relative? Do you I know what makes you ask?
I didn't think so. I mean we want to be
sure relatives are notified in cases such as this. No,
(03:46):
there's no one you'll profound the operation at once. There
is just one thing I don't understand. Yes, what's that?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I don't know how I got here?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You fainted. You were found unconscious by by one of
my assistants. He saw that you needed medical attention, so
he hurried you. Here. Your name doctor Mason, Doctor Clarence Mason.
I see, and the hospital this isn't a hospital? But
(04:24):
well then where am I? You were at my private
sanitarium sanitarium? Yes, I just like quietly please? But which sanitarium?
You might as well know now you will sooner or later.
This is fair Child Sanitarium, fair Child, the sanitarium on
(04:49):
the island. Yes, but fair Child has been closed for
ten years, has it? Why? Well? Yes, I I used
to work there just before it closed. Yes, I know
you do. Don't you remember me Wentworth? No? No, I've
(05:12):
never seen you before. Certainly you have look at me closely,
look into my eyes. Imagine me without this beard, Picture
me as you think I might have looked ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Holts Abraham holes. You see you hadn't forgotten me. But
don't you wish you had?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Holes? No, it can't possibly be. Do you remember Wentworth?
That I once told you nothing is impossible for Abraham Holtes.
It is you Holts. Yes, I finally caught up with you,
caught up with me. Yes, I warned you ten years
(06:06):
ago that you would suffer for what you did to me,
what I did to you. Of course, you thought your
testimony against me would give you a good position at
the sanitarium, didn't you. Fight. Testimony against you was given regretfully,
but in good faith, good faith, you say, ha, ha,
good faith. Indeed, you thought by ridding the sanitarium of me,
(06:30):
you would win your way into the good graces of
doctor Vansickl. Doctor Vansikel died about a week after your trial. Yes,
a pity and strange, wasn't it. What do you mean
that the man who spoiled out the charges against me
(06:51):
didn't live two hundred hours afterwards? You, I said there
was something strange about vansiickeleld'sday. But whatever it was, it
completely baffled the experts. Yes, they are so easily baffled. Poor,
stupid and incompoops. You kill fancycle. Do you think you
(07:12):
could prove that wentworth You were supposed to be in
the penitentiary at the time. Yes, and so I was
what I was in the penitentiary. I am now now
now you say, yes, indeed, did you forget my sentence
(07:33):
was for life? I could hardly serve a sentence like
that in ten years you escaped in a sense, What
do you mean? I haven't the inclination to explain it
to you now, suffice it to say it has been
impossible from the first to imprison the one whom you
(07:56):
first knew as doctor Abraham Holst. How could you be
in prison and here at the same time mad? You're mad? Completely?
Oh that is probably what the doctors would say, yes,
but I repeat their plain out and out. Stupidity is
(08:20):
as amazing as it is alarming. I'm getting out of here,
out of here, Yes, of course, go right ahead, you
bet I will. I'm going to get out of here
so fast. I well, something delaying you went with, I like,
(08:42):
I can't move it. What have you done to me?
I have merely made it a little inconvenient for you
to leave you, you devil. I think that's what you said
wentworth in the court room when you testified against me
(09:04):
ten years ago. Remember remember what you said wentworth? I do,
I remember quite distinctly what you said.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
You've asked me to testify in this court. Just what
my reaction has been to the practices of doctor Abraham Holtz. Oh, gentlemen,
When I first came to Fairchild Sanitarium, doctor Holtz was
apparently a normal, capable, practicing surgeon with a very extraordinary ability.
But then he began to change. Yes, change, He ceased
(09:42):
to be human. Yes, he he became more like a devil.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's it. He became more like a devil. H you
remember that, don't you Wentworth? Why only said what I
thought was true? You did cease to be human. You
treated me and the rest of the interns like we
were beasts. You were like beasts to me. Suddenly every
(10:09):
one became beast like because suddenly I found myself in
a position that put me far above every other human
on earth, made all mankind to me like beasts are
to man. What do you mean found yourself in a position?
(10:30):
Some time? Went worth? Sometime soon perhaps you'll know. Ah,
the electric warning. Someone has just entered the front door
of the sanitarium. I must leave you now, But first,
what are you doing while I am gone? You must rest?
(10:50):
Get away, get away, get away. An injection of this,
went Worth. The quiet you nor nor give away from
me while there. What will happen next will probably amaze you. You,
(11:17):
you devil, You persist in calling me that do you
very well? Went Worth? At first, I was going to
take only one of your legs in exchange for what
you did to me with your testimony. Now I shall
(11:39):
take them both. No, no, no, you can't do a
thing like that to me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Is that anason here, Miss Young? Yes, I have an
apartment with the doctor. Go away, miss go away quickly?
Oh please please? I beg you, I beg you to
go away before it's too late, too late. Yes, there's
nothing but trouble for you here.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Trouble. What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I tell you? I can't just just go away, miss
Young while there's still time.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Perhaps nurse, Miss Young doesn't wish to go.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Away, Doctor Hosts, please.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It will go take care of the patient and surgery nurse. Yes, doctor,
I must apologize, Miss Young. You see, my nurse is
quite upset. One of our surgeons operated this morning under
(13:05):
most adverse conditions. A death resulted. The nurse has been
quite upset about it all day because, well, to be
quite frank, the surgeon was her brother. I'd warned him
an operation would be fatal to the patient, but he
went ahead anyway while I was away from the sanitarium.
(13:25):
When I came back, I did everything I could resuscitate
the patient, but I were just minutes too late. I
was compelled to discharge of the surgeon for my staff.
His sister is merely upset about the whole thing. She
called you, doctor Holds. But yes, I heard her. She
(13:49):
called you doctor Holds. Did she Well, that's her brother's name.
She's so confused about everything.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh but no, I said, No, that isn't her brother's name.
It's your name, doctor, Miss Young. Yes, when you telephoned
me yesterday, I knew there was something about your voice
I vaguely recognized. Now I know you are doctor Abraham Holst.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You always were a very keen and intelligent woman, Miss Young. Doctor,
it's nice to see you again. Linda, you escaped from
prison in a way.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You lured me here, pretended you needed a supervisor for
your sanitarium. I should have known better. Yes, Linda, perhaps
you should have What do you want? I thought perhaps
we could have a good laugh together over my court trial.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
La. Yes, just so you remember don't you that it
was partially your testimony that sent me to prison. You
had a fair trial? Are you so very certain I did?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Of course, you had every opportunity to explain your devilish actions, but.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You refused devilish actions.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yes, you were a devil.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's what he said just a few moments ago. Who
went with Paul? Yes, and both of you call me
a devil when you testified at my trial, y Paul.
Now you will see him, my dear, much sooner than
you expect. What do you mean I have great plans
for you, Linda, Yes, for you, Ann went Worth.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You were supposed to serve life in prison, life life,
you say,
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