As Filiba explains how he was knocked out and robbed of 20,000 lira by a fake, mustached/side-burned doctor who appeared at his door, his words are excitably translated and elaborated upon by the hotel manager to a group of equally-astonished and excitable Italian policemen.When he approached a floor covered with deadlyscorpions, he drove them away by brandishing the bracelet at them." Her reflection is viewed in the single lens of a telescope as she swan-dives from a rock cliff into the ocean.It was adapted by scriptwriter George Seaton from Valentine Davies"" original story that was later published by Harcourt Brace & Co.