Wednesday 23 May 1928 Manchester 7.45-8.45

James Drew - D.E. Ormerod
Sam Sing - Charles Nesbitt
A Doctor - F.A. Nicholls
Ina Yorke - Hylda Metcalf

In a primitive wooden cabin situated in a distant corner of his rubber plantation, on the East coast of Africa, James Drew lies prostrate upon a camp bed, a victim of the dread ‘fever’.

Beside the bed is a small rattan table on which are a number of medicine bottles and a flagon containing a small quantity of discoloured water.

The sun streams blindingly through the half-open door and only the monotonous droning of the flies breaks the death like silence of the tropic afternoon.