WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:02.720 This episode from the life of Sherlock Holmes will be 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.480 transmitted to our men and women overseas by short wave 3 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:09.119 and through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:11.439 Petrie Wine brings you. 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:15.759 I Will rap Bone and Nigel Bruce and the new 6 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:27.160 adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Petrie family, the family that 7 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.960 took time to bring you good wine. Invites you to 8 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:32.359 spend the next half hour listening to doctor Watson tell 9 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:35.119 us another exciting adventure he shared with his old friend, 10 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:39.359 that master Detective Sherlock Holmes, and say, let me tell 11 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.600 you something I found just the other day. Steaks are 12 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:48.600 really back again. Good thick, juicy Porterhouse steaks. That's for me, 13 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.960 A thick, tender steak on the rare side, together with 14 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.799 a glass of Petrie California Burgundy. You know, Patrick Burgundy 15 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.600 is a perfect meal time wine and with meat or 16 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.640 any meat dish, It's the very last word in good eating. Honestly, 17 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.040 when you taste the wonderful flavor of that rich red 18 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:08.480 Petrie Burgundy, you're tasting one spell example of the art 19 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.719 of wine making. It's full, flavored and just about the 20 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.840 most delicious wine that ever poured from a bottle. Try 21 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.680 it the next time you have steak or chops, or 22 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:20.760 the next time you have hamburger or pot roast. Believe me, 23 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:23.640 Petrie Burgundy is the best friend a good meal ever had. 24 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:35.480 And now let's look in on our good friend and host, 25 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:36.480 doctor Watson. 26 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:38.760 Come in, Come in. 27 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:43.519 Oh there you are mist aboutell eating doctor, just in time. 28 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:45.799 To join him in a cup of coffee. Grow up 29 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:47.280 your chill, young, fulme lad. 30 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:47.519 Thank you. 31 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:49.879 That's it well, doctor. 32 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.359 You told us last week that tonight's new Sherlock Holmes 33 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:54.400 Adventure takes us to the South of France. 34 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:55.480 That's right, that's about tell. 35 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.560 The South of France and the nineteen hundred, a beautiful playground, 36 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:03.120 boarded by the blurst of blue seas and populated with 37 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:08.479 an extraordinary cross section of cosmopolitan Europe rich man, poor man, beggar, 38 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.080 man thief, all of them attracted by that riviera paradise, 39 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.360 all of them drawn by the magical spell of a 40 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.360 small white ball spinning round the rim of a erect wheel. 41 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.280 And don't tell me that you and the great show 42 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.080 like corns were there on a gambling spray. 43 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:25.960 We were not, mister Bartel, at the time. My story begins. 44 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.560 We just concidered an extremely delicate mission, a mission I 45 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:30.199 may say. 46 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:33.439 That concerns the safety and good name. 47 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.360 Of a very prominent member of the royal family. 48 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.400 Say doctor, you don't know one story at times to Barto. 49 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:42.759 In any event, my boy, I'm afraid that's the case 50 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:43.479 about which my. 51 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.639 Lips are sealed for all time. But to return to 52 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:47.560 tonight's adventure. 53 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:51.479 One June evening, I persuaded Holmes to accompany me to 54 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:54.759 the gabling casino at Fragus, not far from Cannes, where 55 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.520 we were staying. It wasn't quite as fashionable as Axino 56 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.240 at Monte Carlo, but as I intended to do little 57 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.560 scambling myself, it seemed an establishment. 58 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:04.360 More suited to my means. 59 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.639 As we stood there at the green bays covered tables, 60 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.439 the chatter voices and the melodic chanting of the coupiers 61 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.199 as they called the results of each spin of the 62 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:18.319 wheel formed the background to a quiet conversation that Holmes 63 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:19.120 and I were having. 64 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:30.520 You very lost. 65 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.120 Ten Watson pounded, and ten must come up soon. 66 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:35.879 When I cut your losses open and comfort a stove 67 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:36.400 with me on. 68 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.400 The wall, just a big way. A couple more bets homes. 69 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:40.680 I have a being that ten is bound to come 70 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:43.199 up in an ons, and I believe the blood of 71 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:44.800 a gambler courses through your veins. 72 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.280 No harm in taking a little flatow once in a while. 73 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.159 Why don't you risk a few francs? 74 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:53.199 Oh, thank you, my dear chap. The lore of averages convinces. 75 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:54.960 Me that my money is safer in my pockets In 76 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.560 any case, I'm a little dubiousness to the integrity of 77 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:58.599 this particular casino. 78 00:03:59.039 --> 00:03:59.759 What makes is there? 79 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:00.319 Well? 80 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.319 You will observe that this roulette wheel has a double zero. 81 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:07.360 Most continental wheels have only a single one, but indicate 82 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.960 that this house is extremely concerned with its percentage. 83 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.680 Just two more turns in the wheel, homes. I'll take 84 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.040 that walk with you as feeling. 85 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:17.600 Why do you not get on the other side of 86 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:19.079 my favorite? I am a sure follow. 87 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:19.839 Stand next to me. 88 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.160 Hello, good trouble up there? I've placed my bed, so let's. 89 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:24.399 Go and see. 90 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.399 Why do you pay here beside me? 91 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:28.480 I'm afraid I don't see any reason why I can't 92 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:30.279 play wherever I wish you. 93 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.959 You've broken my luck ever since you cut on the table. 94 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:34.040 I say nothing but lose. 95 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:37.319 Please to move away. I'll move away yourself. 96 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:39.680 You don't like my company, Heinrich, Why do you not 97 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:40.360 stop now? 98 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:41.800 You've already lost more. 99 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.480 Than we can have thought? I can win it all 100 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:46.240 back upon it. The young men will move away? 101 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:48.680 Why should my husband? We've had a bad one of not. 102 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:49.560 Too we have. 103 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.519 I've last again, watch some You must stop now, I 104 00:04:57.639 --> 00:04:58.360 must stop him. 105 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.000 Sorry, because I've lost everything. 106 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.360 I hope you'll set this white mistle American. You're walking 107 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:04.079 my luck and hood. 108 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.360 I hope that you and your friend will be wooing. 109 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:10.360 I've never heard such rubbish in my life. 110 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:11.759 Were you listening to him, sir? 111 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.560 I heard his last few remarks, mister Gilbert, Roger Gilbert, 112 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.279 and this is my wife, fella. 113 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:18.480 How do you do? My name is Holmes, and this 114 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.399 is my friend, doctor wat how do you do too? 115 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.360 Didn't think his remarks were in a lot of plays, doctor. 116 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:25.240 I said they did, missus, Gilbert, I don't see how 117 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.519 I can possibly blame your husband for his run of 118 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:28.160 bad luck. 119 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:29.879 I didn't like to look on his face as he 120 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:31.959 left the table, though. The only idea who he is? 121 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.160 His name is Schneman. He's staying at the same hotel 122 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:36.040 as we are. I've never spoken to him, but i've 123 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:37.040 heard being paid there. 124 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.040 Well, you shouldn't gamble unless you can afford to do. 125 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:41.800 I'm losing, darling, and I can't afford it. 126 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:43.319 Oh, I can let you have more money. 127 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:44.839 You know that, No hell and. 128 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.720 I I may have married an arrest, but I'm not 129 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:48.040 going to use a fortune. 130 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:48.319 To gamble with. 131 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:52.839 Oh, I lose my own money and then I'll quit Dams. 132 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.319 Think for you, ask said Watson. 133 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.600 Yes, Homes this time, I know that number ten is 134 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:58.199 going to come up. 135 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:15.839 It's gotcha. Do you hear what it is? 136 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:17.079 I've lost again? 137 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.439 Donas tell him? This is my sad night. 138 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:21.360 Why don't you stop, Homes. 139 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:23.439 I've made three hundred and fifty francs on. 140 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.279 This throat of the wheel, old fellow, but as you've 141 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.399 lost on five hundred francs doing it, I can't say 142 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:28.279 that you're it's. 143 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:29.519 Sick of me Home. 144 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:31.639 I can think you no gambler, I'm. 145 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:32.360 Afraid not, miss Bill. 146 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.399 But you say at Homes or you may not like 147 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.160 Let you've taken a good many chances in your life 148 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:38.519 with long odds against you too. 149 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.279 Another happened, and since missus gilbertins and I'm not a gambler. 150 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.120 Say where's the commotion over there? 151 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:49.439 Yes, yes, the wife of that man that said I 152 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:53.639 ruined him. I talked you, I toske you must be 153 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:54.759 he's asking for doctor. 154 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:56.839 Doctor, come along then, will you excuse me? 155 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.879 Bez thank you? Excuse me, madam? Bym me a doctor? 156 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:04.920 But you the what happened? Madam? 157 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.680 It is my husband is hell. I just found him 158 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:08.639 lying out in the gardens. 159 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.680 Please come with me at once, gentleman. 160 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:12.399 Of course, will will madam? 161 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:13.879 What seems to be the matter with him? 162 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:19.000 Hey, doctor, I think he is dead. 163 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:29.240 He's lying by that tree. 164 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.399 Doctor, please see if you can help him. 165 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:33.480 Somebody else seems to be on the scene before us. 166 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:34.560 Who used her? 167 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:39.040 I am monsieur chape dorector of the casino. Do any 168 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:40.079 of you notice poor man? 169 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:41.079 I am his wife? 170 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.720 He is he dead? I am? I am afraid? So madam, 171 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:46.560 let me look at him. 172 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:47.600 I'm a doctor. 173 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.000 Who's your husband dambling in the sina tonight? 174 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:54.319 Madam? Yeah, he was cool, he loves everything that we have. 175 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:57.839 I'm afraid he is dead, Madame. Shot to the heart. 176 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.519 For God, so is R. Watson? 177 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.120 Looks like it? Yeah? 178 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.240 Out a burnt on the shirt front Ravolther touched in 179 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:10.120 the right hand fingers in a natural position. 180 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.480 The angle of the wound settles it. Obviously self conflicted. 181 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:15.240 I missed you. 182 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.480 You slipped on a casino. What's wrong with it? I'm 183 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:18.959 afraid he's dead, mister Gilbert. 184 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.199 Yes, he committed suicide. I hope, young man, that you 185 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:23.040 are satisfied. 186 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.199 All night you put him bad luck. 187 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:27.439 He asked you to move away from him, to change 188 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:28.959 his luck, but no, you could not do. 189 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:29.959 It all for a shneman. 190 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.279 I'm terribly sorry, but I really don't see how you 191 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:32.799 can blame me. 192 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:35.399 I do blame you, and I also blame you. 193 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:36.200 Monsieur Vrin. 194 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:38.120 But what have I done? Dne? 195 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:40.000 Why do you let a man lose all his money 196 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:40.720 at your tables? 197 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.080 His life so cheap to you on money is so. 198 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.799 Important that you can't close the tables to somebody before 199 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:46.840 he's can't be done. 200 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.360 I am a sympathy for you in your tatted loss, 201 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.960 But did you SEO not be responsible? If your husband 202 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.440 could not afford to gamble, then he should not come here. However, 203 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.600 to know the financial limitations of abatas. 204 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:01.720 He said, her husband lost everything. 205 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.200 You had to right, madam, Yeah, everything then how do 206 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:08.960 you account for the sheaf of banknotes in his breast pockets? 207 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.919 It must be several thousand francs. Then then he wasn't. 208 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.720 Growing, and his suicide therefore cannot be blamed on his 209 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:16.159 losses at my tsina. 210 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.679 Madam, how do you count this money for our name? 211 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:20.559 I do not understand. 212 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:22.519 Finally kept nothing from me. 213 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:24.960 I know that he had not so much money on 214 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:26.200 him that he started tonight. 215 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:28.399 Well, while do. 216 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:29.240 You all look at me like that? 217 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:31.240 Is it what you think you'll take? 218 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.200 Well, she's painted, I've gone up. Just get her to 219 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:34.639 her room. 220 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:35.759 You can take her to my suite. 221 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:37.279 And he says you, no, no, Let's take her to 222 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.000 the hotel. My wife will look after poor a woman. 223 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:41.159 She's had a dreadful shock. 224 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.600 She can probably do with another woman's company. It's better 225 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:44.720 considered it of you, mister Gilbert. 226 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.399 Where you're staying at the Hotel Creon, it's quite near here. 227 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:48.879 I get a catn while I'm doing that, Watson and 228 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.639 see if you can revive her. Williams will never take 229 00:09:50.639 --> 00:10:04.559 her to the Hotel Creon. Very kind of you, missus, Gilbert, 230 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:05.919 to let us bring the poor lady into your. 231 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:08.000 Sweet But the least I can do. Inspite what she 232 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.399 said about Roger bringing her husband bad luck, I'm. 233 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:11.720 Sure she'll need your help when she wakes up. 234 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:14.240 Helen Is I think you will find you asleep for summers. 235 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.519 I gave her a strong sedative. We were just about 236 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.519 to have a drink. Gentleman, do you care to join us? 237 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:19.679 Oh? Thank you, sir. 238 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.960 Nic to gil Roger was just telling me that quite 239 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.399 large summer money was found on here Shaman's body. 240 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:29.480 Mister home, yes, missus Gilbert, several thousand francs. 241 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:30.559 Puzzling home. 242 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.879 So why should a man commit suicide with so much 243 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:33.600 money on him? 244 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.480 I think the answer is obvious. He didn't. 245 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.000 What on earth do you mean? Well? 246 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.759 The money was placed there after he had shot himself. 247 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.240 The banks for in his breast pocket, if you remember, 248 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.720 And that's the useful place to harry money though it 249 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.519 is the easiest pucket for someone to. 250 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:51.240 Insert it without disturbing the body. 251 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:53.840 But why I knowsh someone placed money on him after 252 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:55.559 his suicide. 253 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.679 Prevent the casino from getting a bad name. I've heard 254 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:00.600 of it being done on several similar occasions. Gives the 255 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.240 impression that the unfortunate victim had other motives. Than gambling 256 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.039 losses to a country suicide. 257 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:06.240 Scott, you mean. 258 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.000 That one of the casino employers found the body lying 259 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.039 there and slipped the money in his breast pocket before 260 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:13.000 we arrived. 261 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:13.200 On the sea. 262 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.360 As you know, my dear WA's I'm not a gambling man, 263 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:17.000 but I'll lay you one hundred to one. 264 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:18.919 That is what happened. 265 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:20.759 Well, that's a new one. 266 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.879 We'll here are your drinks, gentlemen, say Helen. 267 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:25.000 Mister Holmes has given. 268 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:25.519 Me a brain wave. 269 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:27.360 Another one? Who is it this time? 270 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:27.720 Roger? 271 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:29.399 Now I've been losing very heavily tonight. 272 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:29.600 God. 273 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:31.440 I told you if you need money, I'll be over. 274 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:32.240 But I don't. 275 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:34.399 I've got a scheme for making some. 276 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.840 I'm going to gamble again tonight after dinner. If I lose, 277 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:38.799 Here's what I'll do. 278 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:42.159 I'll stain my shirt front with ready, walk out in 279 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.519 the grounds, fire a shot, and lie. 280 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:46.720 Down as I'm dead. I'll wait for someone to come 281 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:48.639 along and stuff my pockets full of banknotes. 282 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.000 Not a bad idea, mister Gilbert. 283 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.240 I think it's a dying good one. What are you saying, 284 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.720 mister Holmes? It's a whimsical won at any rate? Who 285 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:57.840 knows you might even be successful. 286 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.879 Roger, you're not really going to do it. 287 00:11:59.879 --> 00:12:03.399 I'm sure perhaps I'll get some of my losses back 288 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:03.759 that way. 289 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:05.879 Well, let's drink to a gentleman. 290 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:08.080 At least I may have hit upon an idea of 291 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:25.639 making money. 292 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:28.240 Dear Watson, you have to work hard. 293 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.320 Did your factors when you get back to England's Your 294 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.879 infallible system appears to be extremely fallible. 295 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:34.480 You have to follow told me about it, said it 296 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:36.919 couldn't miss. It's just a matter of doubling whose takes 297 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:38.039 each time you look off? 298 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:41.559 And then, my dear fellow, I've been studying your system, 299 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.480 but I can tell you a really infallible way of 300 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:45.840 making money. If you left, you can what is it? Well, 301 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:49.080 own the gambling house, operate the tables yourself. The arts 302 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:50.200 would be all in your favor. 303 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:58.200 A little bit of suggestion, not gambling. Mike Watson, let 304 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.320 me clo I think. So let's take a strong around 305 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:01.320 the other table, show. 306 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.360 All the way, old fellow. The young American mister Gilbert 307 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:06.639 was losing heavily again tonight. 308 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.159 He was I wonder if you'll try that trick that 309 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.039 he threatened, the one with the red ink and the 310 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:12.840 shot in the night. 311 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:14.080 I should be at all surprised. 312 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.360 As a matter of interest, I saw him leave the 313 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:17.480 tables about half an hour ago. 314 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.320 Here comes to his wife on the arm of Mossie 315 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:21.879 Chevroty and the director of the casino. 316 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:23.279 Agree with what you think, Missus Gibbett. 317 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:27.159 Monsieur hello, mister Holmes, Dr Watson. 318 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.399 Mister Chevalty is giving me a personally conducted tour of 319 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:29.879 the casino. 320 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.159 It's quite fascinating, and it is quite fascinating for me 321 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.840 to have so beautiful a woman on my arm. 322 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.879 By myself, I know that I am the envy of 323 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:40.039 all the men in the room. 324 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:42.240 I would stop flattering me so much. I'm not used 325 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:42.399 to it. 326 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.000 Missus Gilbert, how is a fresh nay man? 327 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.600 She seems much better. She waited an hour ago and 328 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:50.200 insisted on going back to her own room. I wanted 329 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:51.919 her to spend the night with us in last week, but. 330 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:54.080 You wouldn't think I should drop in and sell before 331 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:57.200 I go to bed at Oh, you have finished attempting fortnight. 332 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:57.919 I have stopped him. 333 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.120 Perhaps about it, Monsieurs Chevy. I've had a bad run 334 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:01.879 at the tables. 335 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:03.519 I am so sorry. 336 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:04.840 Has anyone seen Roger? 337 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.559 He left the tables about half an hour ago, Missus Gilbert. 338 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.720 After doing as I did and losing quite heavily. 339 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.200 I lost again today. I wonder if you'll try that 340 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:14.519 new system he was talking about. 341 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:18.039 We were just discussing that possibility ourselves and Missus Gilbert. 342 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.799 Missus Gilbeth, Missus Gilbet's hush sham, and you shouldn't have left. 343 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.360 Your cay is too late to worry for me. Here, doctor, 344 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.120 it is from Missus Gilbert now that. 345 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:25.720 You should borry. 346 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:26.519 What do you mean matter? 347 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:28.639 Well, I've been backed just now to be a poor 348 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.039 tired lying in the glass. 349 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:32.240 I saw another body. 350 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.559 I was too shocked to go too close, but I 351 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.960 am quite sure that I recognized your husband, Missus Gilbert. 352 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:40.639 Oh, Dr Watson, she's ruined Roger's trick. 353 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:42.080 You have taken fright and bolted. 354 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:43.559 By the time we get down to maybe let's go 355 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:44.799 at once and find out shall. 356 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:57.159 Way, he hasn't gone. 357 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:58.360 He he's still lying. 358 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:02.000 Now's the monk convincing st that readink really does. 359 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:02.679 Look like blood? 360 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:09.799 Yes, and blood sometimes looks like reading. It's a Gibbert Roger. 361 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:10.279 Get up. 362 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:15.159 The joke's foro it, Roger, Get up. 363 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.919 I'm afraid that's impossible, Missus Gilbert, He's dead. 364 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:30.919 Doctor Watson's story will be continued in just a second, 365 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:32.759 which is all the time. I need to tell you 366 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.639 that the easiest way I know to transform a simple 367 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.440 meal into a feast is to serve that meal together 368 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:42.279 with Petrie California so Turn. Petri so Turn is a 369 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:48.840 delicate white wine. It's the perfect companion for chicken or turkey. Turkey, Yes, 370 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.240 turkey and Petrie so Turned. That's the heart of any 371 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.919 Thanksgiving dinner. Look, why not make this Thanksgiving dinner the 372 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:57.000 best one you ever had? 373 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.639 Give it the air of a banquet. Serve it with 374 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:00.759 pets Turn. 375 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:03.840 And when you buy that sob Turn or any wine 376 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.080 for your Thanksgiving dinner, whatever you do, look for the 377 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:11.440 letters P E, T R I, because a fattery wine 378 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:16.240 is always a good wine. Well, doctor, So the Young 379 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:18.240 Americans joke turned out to be anoutther tragedy. 380 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:21.440 Yes, the poor fellow was lying there dead with a 381 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.080 bullet wound in the hut, a great spash of blood 382 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.000 staining the whiteness of his shirt front. 383 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:27.200 What happened next? 384 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.320 The siau Chevre director the casino took the distort. Widow 385 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:32.559 away from the scene while Holmes and I examined the 386 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:33.240 body closely. 387 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:35.559 Within a few minutes we were joined. 388 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:40.279 By Inspector Gannide of the French police. As we stood 389 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:43.200 there in the moonlight, the sounds of music we heard 390 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:46.799 from the casino, it was hard to believe that two men. 391 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:50.200 Had died in that lovely garden since the moon had risen. 392 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.960 Monsieur Owmes, you and doctor Watson have concluded your examination. 393 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.240 Yes, Inspector Gunnaber, you favor me with your observations. You 394 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:06.000 say that you are certain that this is not another suicide. 395 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:07.960 I'm sure of, Inspector. Look at the wound. 396 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.559 The bullet entered the body at a direct right angle, 397 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.839 whereas a self infricted shot is always part of bricklaim gears. 398 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:15.279 That is so. 399 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.480 Then you suggest that this man was shot from above 400 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:20.880 as he lay on the ground pretending to be dead. 401 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:21.720