The Raven Page #5

Does anyone want

any more horse races?

Not me.

It's too exhausting

a game for me.

Let's go

and get a drink.

Feel this, my pet.

Just what am I

supposed to feel?

My pulse. It's beating.

I'm going to ask

Dr. Vollin's advice.

Doctor.

Yes, Colonel.

I get the most peculiar sensations,

uh, pains you might call them.

Not exactly pains, but, uh,

they come and they go.

What would you say

they were?

You eat too much, Colonel.

I'm asking Dr. Vollin,

my pet.

You're always trying to get free advice.

Now, now, my pet.

You know, the other evening

we met Dr. Thayor...

...and he turned out

to be a veterinary.

My pet, he gave me some very

good advice about my dogs.

Man to see you.

Excuse me.

Oh, p-please,

don't stand there.

Yes. Move away,

my man, like a good fellow.

Never stand behind people.

Most unfortunate looking

fellow.

I'm so glad you have come,

Judge Thatcher.

Dr. Vollin,

is my daughter here?

Judge Thatcher,

I'm genuinely sorry...

...for all the stupid things

I said to you the other day.

I want you,

please, to forget.

One can't forget a man

saying...

But I... I was

under terrible strain...

...and if you can feel

in anyway indebted to me...

...clear your debts by forgiving me

for what I said.

Well, I suppose a man can...

Oh, I...

You do forgive me.

Now let's go

and... And join the others.

Go upstairs and tell Miss

Thatcher her father is here.

Oh, I'm so glad to see you.

Glad to see you.

Hello, Judge, I was wondering

whether you'd arrived.

That's from upstairs.

Oh, Dad,

I'm so glad you are here.

What happened?

What's the matter?

You look as white as a ghost.

I just had

a terrible fright.

What was it?

I was standing in my room

looking in the mirror...

...when the door opened and an

awful looking man came in.

Oh, you mean,

my servant, poor fellow.

Come on, let's sit down.

I will tell you about him.

Come.

I'm sorry, Miss Thatcher,

that my servant scared you.

Please be seated.

All of you, please.

Poor fellow...

...he can't help

the way he looks.

He served

in my regiment.

Arab bandits

took him a prisoner.

They mutilated him

and tortured him.

They have a genius

for devising torture.

It's almost the equal

of Edgar Allan Poe.

Dr. Vollin is

keen about Poe.

Yes, I've noticed.

Why your extraordinary

interest in Poe, Dr. Vollin?

That poem of Poe's,

The Raven.

I say, what is

The Raven?

It's a bird, Pinkie.

A pretty thing to

have around the house.

But isn't the raven

the symbol of death?

It always has been.

What is your interpretation of The Raven?

I will tell you.

Poe was a great genius.

Like all great geniuses...

...there was in him

the insistent will...

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes