The Outsider Page #2
- Year:
- 1939
- 90 min
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All right.
How are you, Sturdee?
- I won't disturb you long.
Well - what is it?
It's, uh---
- No, thanks.
- No.
It's about Ragatzy.
Ragatzy!
You want me to help you to get him
run out of the country?
With the greatest of pleasure.
No. I want you to meet him,
with the rest of us.
No.
But he has cured cases that we've
pronounced incurable.
He oughtn't to be allowed to.
Not allowed to cure people?
Not without the knowledge that'll give reasonable security
that he won't either kill or cripple them instead.
But, you're always the first to say we
have a duty to science.
This isn't science.
It's not like you to be so obstinate.
It isn't obstinacy.
I've a very personal reason, for not only
discouraging quacks like Ragatzy...
...but for running them out of business.
You know how Lally is.
But you don't know why.
Her mother was young and beautiful.
So young.
So... beautiful.
She died, giving birth to Lalage.
I felt I'd lost everything.
Well, after it was all over they brought
the child to me, but...
...l couldn't even look at it.
Instead of hating myself, as I should
have done, I hated the child.
So I sent her away, to my old
nurse in the country.
Well... after that I left England.
Travelled around a good deal.
I practised in the East...
...went to the States.
Then one day I received a letter.
It said the child was pretty, and
remarkably intelligent.
But, at nearly three years, couldn't walk.
Only crawl - dragging one little foot.
But there was no need to worry, because they were
having her treated by the local bone-setter.
Well!
I think I realised then, for the first
time, that I was a father.
When I heard that my own little daughter
was in unqualified hands...
...brutal, blundering hands.
- I'm sorry, Sturdee.
- I hurried back, but...
...well, in those days there were no aeroplanes
to cut the world in half.
And before I could reach her, the child's
hip, dislocated at birth...
...which - after all - is a simple
matter to put right.
- If it's done at once.
- Yes, but it was not.
This ignorant quack had so damaged the hip socket by his
twisting and turnings, that nothing could be done.
My little daughter, who smiled and...
...dragged herself onto my knee to kiss me...
...was lame for life.
A cripple.
One can hardly believe she is a cripple.
She has so much charm and spirit.
And a very great gift.
I think we forget it often - but she never does.
I don't like to make the suggestion now, but I came here
to ask you if we couldn't use this man's invention to...
...help her in some way?
I'd try anything that wasn't downright risky.
But you know yourself, how easily you can
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