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Oh, yes.

Twice, as a matter of fact.

After which, he disappeared.

Disappeared?

On the coast steamer,

between Manila and Pangan.

That's strange.

You're damn right it's strange,

and it is not all that is strange.

I find myself waking up in

this Boris Karloff hideaway

with some creature from

out of a horror film,

no tongue, sliding in and out of my room.

I hear screams in the night,

and on top of everything

else, I finally meet,

once again, my old friend,

and yours, Stewart Victor.

Well...

as for this hideaway of mine,

well, I dig it.

And Lupe, my servant,

she does have a tongue.

It just doesn't know English.

Now, the screams in the night,

well, the shriek of a pig late at night

can be frightening.

You still haven't

explained the mystery man.

Stewart Victor's a friend

of mine, like I said,

but more than that, he's my benefactor.

More than that, he is weird!

Well, he's rich, he's

eccentric, secretive.

That's all.

And you haven't told me what it is

that you plant here.

Let me show you something.

Now, this entire island

was once a plantation,

but then, finally,

because of its remoteness,

it was turned into a colony

for the terminally ill.

Of course, then, the

Japanese took it over.

And now?

Now it's my

laboratory and compound.

That's Benny, and that's Marie.

That's Vigo.

Who are they?

They're convicts, remanded to my custody

by local authorities.

Diaz?

Well, I met him in Pangan, and

I saw him here this morning.

That's another one of the mysteries.

There's no mystery.

He brought Victor.

Come on.

Go right ahead.

This way.

This way.

A couple of years ago, back in the States,

I was considered an authority on penology.

Did some very progressive things with it,

with sedatives and

hallucinogens, and other drugs.

Then the AMA, and the

prison psychologists,

and sociologists who had

first backed my techniques

copped out.

So I came here.

To continue your work.

That's right, because

I know I can rehabilitate

even the most hardened criminal.

I've been working on it for a while,

and this vial may hold the answer.

You have electricity.

A generator, I turn it off at night.

Oh, damn!

They have relapses.

Hey look, if you feel up to it,

why don't you take a walk around?

Oh, fine.

Might I inquire how and

when I get back to Pangan?

Diaz'll be back in a few days.

And until then?

Well, until then, we can talk.

You can tell me what's going on out there.

Terrific.

Later on.

Peace.

Hi.

Do you want some wine?

Please.

I've stopped trying

to figure Victor out.

Well, I'm disappointed.

This is the second time he's stood me up

for dinner, so to speak.

It's, uh, I wouldn't let it throw you.

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