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Speaker 1: You told us last week that tonight's new Sherlock Holmes
Speaker 1: Adventure takes us to the South of France.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's about tell.
Speaker 4: The South of France and the nineteen hundred, a beautiful playground,
Speaker 4: boarded by the blurst of blue seas and populated with
Speaker 4: an extraordinary cross section of cosmopolitan Europe rich man, poor man, beggar,
Speaker 4: man thief, all of them attracted by that riviera paradise,
Speaker 4: all of them drawn by the magical spell of a
Speaker 4: small white ball spinning round the rim of a erect wheel.
Speaker 1: And don't tell me that you and the great show
Speaker 1: like corns were there on a gambling spray.
Speaker 3: We were not, mister Bartel, at the time. My story begins.
Speaker 4: We just concidered an extremely delicate mission, a mission I
Speaker 4: may say.
Speaker 6: That concerns the safety and good name.
Speaker 3: Of a very prominent member of the royal family.
Speaker 2: Say doctor, you don't know one story at times to Barto.
Speaker 6: In any event, my boy, I'm afraid that's the case
Speaker 6: about which my.
Speaker 3: Lips are sealed for all time. But to return to
Speaker 3: tonight's adventure.
Speaker 4: One June evening, I persuaded Holmes to accompany me to
Speaker 4: the gabling casino at Fragus, not far from Cannes, where
Speaker 4: we were staying. It wasn't quite as fashionable as Axino
Speaker 4: at Monte Carlo, but as I intended to do little
Speaker 4: scambling myself, it seemed an establishment.
Speaker 3: More suited to my means.
Speaker 4: As we stood there at the green bays covered tables,
Speaker 4: the chatter voices and the melodic chanting of the coupiers
Speaker 4: as they called the results of each spin of the
Speaker 4: wheel formed the background to a quiet conversation that Holmes
Speaker 4: and I were having.
Speaker 7: You very lost.
Speaker 6: Ten Watson pounded, and ten must come up soon.
Speaker 2: When I cut your losses open and comfort a stove
Speaker 2: with me on.
Speaker 4: The wall, just a big way. A couple more bets homes.
Speaker 1: I have a being that ten is bound to come
Speaker 1: up in an ons, and I believe the blood of
Speaker 1: a gambler courses through your veins.
Speaker 4: No harm in taking a little flatow once in a while.
Speaker 3: Why don't you risk a few francs?
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, my dear chap. The lore of averages convinces.
Speaker 1: Me that my money is safer in my pockets In
Speaker 1: any case, I'm a little dubiousness to the integrity of
Speaker 1: this particular casino.
Speaker 5: What makes is there?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: You will observe that this roulette wheel has a double zero.
Speaker 1: Most continental wheels have only a single one, but indicate
Speaker 1: that this house is extremely concerned with its percentage.
Speaker 3: Just two more turns in the wheel, homes. I'll take
Speaker 3: that walk with you as feeling.
Speaker 2: Why do you not get on the other side of
Speaker 2: my favorite? I am a sure follow.
Speaker 3: Stand next to me.
Speaker 2: Hello, good trouble up there? I've placed my bed, so let's.
Speaker 3: Go and see.
Speaker 5: Why do you pay here beside me?
Speaker 8: I'm afraid I don't see any reason why I can't
Speaker 8: play wherever I wish you.
Speaker 2: You've broken my luck ever since you cut on the table.
Speaker 2: I say nothing but lose.
Speaker 3: Please to move away. I'll move away yourself.
Speaker 9: You don't like my company, Heinrich, Why do you not
Speaker 9: stop now?
Speaker 3: You've already lost more.
Speaker 2: Than we can have thought? I can win it all
Speaker 2: back upon it. The young men will move away?
Speaker 9: Why should my husband? We've had a bad one of not.
Speaker 7: Too we have.
Speaker 1: I've last again, watch some You must stop now, I
Speaker 1: must stop him.
Speaker 3: Sorry, because I've lost everything.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll set this white mistle American. You're walking
Speaker 2: my luck and hood.
Speaker 3: I hope that you and your friend will be wooing.
Speaker 8: I've never heard such rubbish in my life.
Speaker 2: Were you listening to him, sir?
Speaker 1: I heard his last few remarks, mister Gilbert, Roger Gilbert,
Speaker 1: and this is my wife, fella.
Speaker 2: How do you do? My name is Holmes, and this
Speaker 2: is my friend, doctor wat how do you do too?
Speaker 9: Didn't think his remarks were in a lot of plays, doctor.
Speaker 4: I said they did, missus, Gilbert, I don't see how
Speaker 4: I can possibly blame your husband for his run of
Speaker 4: bad luck.
Speaker 2: I didn't like to look on his face as he
Speaker 2: left the table, though. The only idea who he is?
Speaker 2: His name is Schneman. He's staying at the same hotel
Speaker 2: as we are. I've never spoken to him, but i've
Speaker 2: heard being paid there.
Speaker 9: Well, you shouldn't gamble unless you can afford to do.
Speaker 2: I'm losing, darling, and I can't afford it.
Speaker 9: Oh, I can let you have more money.
Speaker 2: You know that, No hell and.
Speaker 8: I I may have married an arrest, but I'm not
Speaker 8: going to use a fortune.
Speaker 3: To gamble with.
Speaker 2: Oh, I lose my own money and then I'll quit Dams.
Speaker 2: Think for you, ask said Watson.
Speaker 4: Yes, Homes this time, I know that number ten is
Speaker 4: going to come up.
Speaker 10: It's gotcha. Do you hear what it is?
Speaker 3: I've lost again?
Speaker 2: Donas tell him? This is my sad night.
Speaker 9: Why don't you stop, Homes.
Speaker 3: I've made three hundred and fifty francs on.
Speaker 1: This throat of the wheel, old fellow, but as you've
Speaker 1: lost on five hundred francs doing it, I can't say
Speaker 1: that you're it's.
Speaker 2: Sick of me Home.
Speaker 9: I can think you no gambler, I'm.
Speaker 2: Afraid not, miss Bill.
Speaker 4: But you say at Homes or you may not like
Speaker 4: Let you've taken a good many chances in your life
Speaker 4: with long odds against you too.
Speaker 2: Another happened, and since missus gilbertins and I'm not a gambler.
Speaker 3: Say where's the commotion over there?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the wife of that man that said I
Speaker 2: ruined him. I talked you, I toske you must be
Speaker 2: he's asking for doctor.
Speaker 4: Doctor, come along then, will you excuse me?
Speaker 2: Bez thank you? Excuse me, madam? Bym me a doctor?
Speaker 2: But you the what happened? Madam?
Speaker 3: It is my husband is hell. I just found him
Speaker 3: lying out in the gardens.
Speaker 9: Please come with me at once, gentleman.
Speaker 2: Of course, will will madam?
Speaker 3: What seems to be the matter with him?
Speaker 11: Hey, doctor, I think he is dead.
Speaker 9: He's lying by that tree.
Speaker 3: Doctor, please see if you can help him.
Speaker 2: Somebody else seems to be on the scene before us.
Speaker 2: Who used her?
Speaker 1: I am monsieur chape dorector of the casino. Do any
Speaker 1: of you notice poor man?
Speaker 9: I am his wife?
Speaker 2: He is he dead? I am? I am afraid? So madam,
Speaker 2: let me look at him.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor.
Speaker 2: Who's your husband dambling in the sina tonight?
Speaker 3: Madam? Yeah, he was cool, he loves everything that we have.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid he is dead, Madame. Shot to the heart.
Speaker 2: For God, so is R. Watson?
Speaker 3: Looks like it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Out a burnt on the shirt front Ravolther touched in
Speaker 1: the right hand fingers in a natural position.
Speaker 2: The angle of the wound settles it. Obviously self conflicted.
Speaker 3: I missed you.
Speaker 2: You slipped on a casino. What's wrong with it? I'm
Speaker 2: afraid he's dead, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 11: Yes, he committed suicide. I hope, young man, that you
Speaker 11: are satisfied.
Speaker 2: All night you put him bad luck.
Speaker 9: He asked you to move away from him, to change
Speaker 9: his luck, but no, you could not do.
Speaker 2: It all for a shneman.
Speaker 8: I'm terribly sorry, but I really don't see how you
Speaker 8: can blame me.
Speaker 6: I do blame you, and I also blame you.
Speaker 5: Monsieur Vrin.
Speaker 2: But what have I done? Dne?
Speaker 11: Why do you let a man lose all his money
Speaker 11: at your tables?
Speaker 9: His life so cheap to you on money is so.
Speaker 11: Important that you can't close the tables to somebody before
Speaker 11: he's can't be done.
Speaker 1: I am a sympathy for you in your tatted loss,
Speaker 1: But did you SEO not be responsible? If your husband
Speaker 1: could not afford to gamble, then he should not come here. However,
Speaker 1: to know the financial limitations of abatas.
Speaker 2: He said, her husband lost everything.
Speaker 1: You had to right, madam, Yeah, everything then how do
Speaker 1: you account for the sheaf of banknotes in his breast pockets?
Speaker 3: It must be several thousand francs. Then then he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Growing, and his suicide therefore cannot be blamed on his
Speaker 1: losses at my tsina.
Speaker 2: Madam, how do you count this money for our name?
Speaker 3: I do not understand.
Speaker 9: Finally kept nothing from me.
Speaker 11: I know that he had not so much money on
Speaker 11: him that he started tonight.
Speaker 9: Well, while do.
Speaker 6: You all look at me like that?
Speaker 9: Is it what you think you'll take?
Speaker 3: Well, she's painted, I've gone up. Just get her to
Speaker 3: her room.
Speaker 2: You can take her to my suite.
Speaker 8: And he says you, no, no, Let's take her to
Speaker 8: the hotel. My wife will look after poor a woman.
Speaker 8: She's had a dreadful shock.
Speaker 2: She can probably do with another woman's company. It's better
Speaker 2: considered it of you, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Where you're staying at the Hotel Creon, it's quite near here.
Speaker 1: I get a catn while I'm doing that, Watson and
Speaker 1: see if you can revive her. Williams will never take
Speaker 1: her to the Hotel Creon. Very kind of you, missus, Gilbert,
Speaker 1: to let us bring the poor lady into your.
Speaker 9: Sweet But the least I can do. Inspite what she
Speaker 9: said about Roger bringing her husband bad luck, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure she'll need your help when she wakes up.
Speaker 4: Helen Is I think you will find you asleep for summers.
Speaker 4: I gave her a strong sedative. We were just about
Speaker 4: to have a drink. Gentleman, do you care to join us?
Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you, sir.
Speaker 9: Nic to gil Roger was just telling me that quite
Speaker 9: large summer money was found on here Shaman's body.
Speaker 2: Mister home, yes, missus Gilbert, several thousand francs.
Speaker 3: Puzzling home.
Speaker 4: So why should a man commit suicide with so much
Speaker 4: money on him?
Speaker 2: I think the answer is obvious. He didn't.
Speaker 3: What on earth do you mean? Well?
Speaker 1: The money was placed there after he had shot himself.
Speaker 1: The banks for in his breast pocket, if you remember,
Speaker 1: And that's the useful place to harry money though it
Speaker 1: is the easiest pucket for someone to.
Speaker 2: Insert it without disturbing the body.
Speaker 8: But why I knowsh someone placed money on him after
Speaker 8: his suicide.
Speaker 1: Prevent the casino from getting a bad name. I've heard
Speaker 1: of it being done on several similar occasions. Gives the
Speaker 1: impression that the unfortunate victim had other motives. Than gambling
Speaker 1: losses to a country suicide.
Speaker 3: Scott, you mean.
Speaker 4: That one of the casino employers found the body lying
Speaker 4: there and slipped the money in his breast pocket before
Speaker 4: we arrived.
Speaker 3: On the sea.
Speaker 1: As you know, my dear WA's I'm not a gambling man,
Speaker 1: but I'll lay you one hundred to one.
Speaker 2: That is what happened.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a new one.
Speaker 2: We'll here are your drinks, gentlemen, say Helen.
Speaker 3: Mister Holmes has given.
Speaker 2: Me a brain wave.
Speaker 9: Another one? Who is it this time?
Speaker 7: Roger?
Speaker 2: Now I've been losing very heavily tonight.
Speaker 7: God.
Speaker 9: I told you if you need money, I'll be over.
Speaker 5: But I don't.
Speaker 3: I've got a scheme for making some.
Speaker 2: I'm going to gamble again tonight after dinner. If I lose,
Speaker 2: Here's what I'll do.
Speaker 8: I'll stain my shirt front with ready, walk out in
Speaker 8: the grounds, fire a shot, and lie.
Speaker 2: Down as I'm dead. I'll wait for someone to come
Speaker 2: along and stuff my pockets full of banknotes.
Speaker 3: Not a bad idea, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 2: I think it's a dying good one. What are you saying,
Speaker 2: mister Holmes? It's a whimsical won at any rate? Who
Speaker 2: knows you might even be successful.
Speaker 9: Roger, you're not really going to do it.
Speaker 8: I'm sure perhaps I'll get some of my losses back
Speaker 8: that way.
Speaker 2: Well, let's drink to a gentleman.
Speaker 12: At least I may have hit upon an idea of
Speaker 12: making money.
Speaker 2: Dear Watson, you have to work hard.
Speaker 1: Did your factors when you get back to England's Your
Speaker 1: infallible system appears to be extremely fallible.
Speaker 4: You have to follow told me about it, said it
Speaker 4: couldn't miss. It's just a matter of doubling whose takes
Speaker 4: each time you look off?
Speaker 1: And then, my dear fellow, I've been studying your system,
Speaker 1: but I can tell you a really infallible way of
Speaker 1: making money. If you left, you can what is it? Well,
Speaker 1: own the gambling house, operate the tables yourself. The arts
Speaker 1: would be all in your favor.
Speaker 4: A little bit of suggestion, not gambling. Mike Watson, let
Speaker 4: me clo I think. So let's take a strong around
Speaker 4: the other table, show.
Speaker 2: All the way, old fellow. The young American mister Gilbert
Speaker 2: was losing heavily again tonight.
Speaker 4: He was I wonder if you'll try that trick that
Speaker 4: he threatened, the one with the red ink and the
Speaker 4: shot in the night.
Speaker 2: I should be at all surprised.
Speaker 1: As a matter of interest, I saw him leave the
Speaker 1: tables about half an hour ago.
Speaker 4: Here comes to his wife on the arm of Mossie
Speaker 4: Chevroty and the director of the casino.
Speaker 2: Agree with what you think, Missus Gibbett.
Speaker 11: Monsieur hello, mister Holmes, Dr Watson.
Speaker 9: Mister Chevalty is giving me a personally conducted tour of
Speaker 9: the casino.
Speaker 1: It's quite fascinating, and it is quite fascinating for me
Speaker 1: to have so beautiful a woman on my arm.
Speaker 2: By myself, I know that I am the envy of
Speaker 2: all the men in the room.
Speaker 9: I would stop flattering me so much. I'm not used
Speaker 9: to it.
Speaker 2: Missus Gilbert, how is a fresh nay man?
Speaker 9: She seems much better. She waited an hour ago and
Speaker 9: insisted on going back to her own room. I wanted
Speaker 9: her to spend the night with us in last week, but.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't think I should drop in and sell before
Speaker 1: I go to bed at Oh, you have finished attempting fortnight.
Speaker 2: I have stopped him.
Speaker 3: Perhaps about it, Monsieurs Chevy. I've had a bad run
Speaker 3: at the tables.
Speaker 2: I am so sorry.
Speaker 9: Has anyone seen Roger?
Speaker 2: He left the tables about half an hour ago, Missus Gilbert.
Speaker 3: After doing as I did and losing quite heavily.
Speaker 9: I lost again today. I wonder if you'll try that
Speaker 9: new system he was talking about.
Speaker 1: We were just discussing that possibility ourselves and Missus Gilbert.
Speaker 3: Missus Gilbeth, Missus Gilbet's hush sham, and you shouldn't have left.
Speaker 9: Your cay is too late to worry for me. Here, doctor,
Speaker 9: it is from Missus Gilbert now that.
Speaker 3: You should borry.
Speaker 2: What do you mean matter?
Speaker 11: Well, I've been backed just now to be a poor
Speaker 11: tired lying in the glass.
Speaker 3: I saw another body.
Speaker 11: I was too shocked to go too close, but I
Speaker 11: am quite sure that I recognized your husband, Missus Gilbert.
Speaker 9: Oh, Dr Watson, she's ruined Roger's trick.
Speaker 3: You have taken fright and bolted.
Speaker 2: By the time we get down to maybe let's go
Speaker 2: at once and find out shall.
Speaker 5: Way, he hasn't gone.
Speaker 3: He he's still lying.
Speaker 9: Now's the monk convincing st that readink really does.
Speaker 3: Look like blood?
Speaker 1: Yes, and blood sometimes looks like reading. It's a Gibbert Roger.
Speaker 7: Get up.
Speaker 6: The joke's foro it, Roger, Get up.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid that's impossible, Missus Gilbert, He's dead.
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Speaker 1: Americans joke turned out to be anoutther tragedy.
Speaker 4: Yes, the poor fellow was lying there dead with a
Speaker 4: bullet wound in the hut, a great spash of blood
Speaker 4: staining the whiteness of his shirt front.
Speaker 2: What happened next?
Speaker 4: The siau Chevre director the casino took the distort. Widow
Speaker 4: away from the scene while Holmes and I examined the
Speaker 4: body closely.
Speaker 3: Within a few minutes we were joined.
Speaker 4: By Inspector Gannide of the French police. As we stood
Speaker 4: there in the moonlight, the sounds of music we heard
Speaker 4: from the casino, it was hard to believe that two men.
Speaker 3: Had died in that lovely garden since the moon had risen.
Speaker 13: Monsieur Owmes, you and doctor Watson have concluded your examination.
Speaker 2: Yes, Inspector Gunnaber, you favor me with your observations. You
Speaker 2: say that you are certain that this is not another suicide.
Speaker 2: I'm sure of, Inspector. Look at the wound.
Speaker 1: The bullet entered the body at a direct right angle,
Speaker 1: whereas a self infricted shot is always part of bricklaim gears.
Speaker 7: That is so.
Speaker 13: Then you suggest that this man was shot from above
Speaker 13: as he lay on the ground pretending to be dead.
Speaker 2: I'm convinced of it.
Speaker 1: Why, Monsieur Well, for two reasons, though it's impossible to
Speaker 1: be sure without elaborate retest.
Speaker 2: I'm certain that beneath those bloodstains are stains of red ink.
Speaker 2: But for yourself, Inspector m Yes, indeed, he.
Speaker 3: Does look like it.
Speaker 13: What is your other reason for being certain that this
Speaker 13: man was shot as he lay here pretending there.
Speaker 2: I'm shown the bank notes, Watson are, Inspector.
Speaker 4: We found them stuffed in his breast pocket.
Speaker 13: So bootnotes with a bullet hole through the middle of them.
Speaker 13: Very illuminating. They tell me, gentlemen, how many people knew
Speaker 13: of this, this little plot you have told me about
Speaker 13: this plan of the dead man's to pretend to be shot.
Speaker 2: Just three people, Inspector Dr Watson and.
Speaker 13: Missus Gilbert Lord. Then the answer is obvious. You and
Speaker 13: your friend are innocent. It must be the wife who
Speaker 13: killed him. No one else knew of the plan.
Speaker 4: I'm not so sure that flash name and the dead
Speaker 4: german's widow was in the next room when Gilbert told
Speaker 4: us about his plan. She might have heard that. I
Speaker 4: could swear that she was asleep. I gave her a
Speaker 4: very strong sleeping draft.
Speaker 13: From what you have told me of her husband's suicide,
Speaker 13: she might easily have had a motive for murdering.
Speaker 2: All ham Come, come, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Surely gets obvious who murdered mister Gilbert oh monsieur Le.
Speaker 3: Certainly one of the two widows.
Speaker 1: Since there seems to be some doubt in your minds.
Speaker 1: I suggest we returned to the casino. I can promise
Speaker 1: you the answer to your question with a very few minutes.
Speaker 1: Now that we're all assembled in your office, I shall
Speaker 1: sit down quart in that instactor Gannaway conduct his examination.
Speaker 13: No, no, no, monsieur homes No, you have handled.
Speaker 2: The case so far. Please to sitting way to the
Speaker 2: evn Yes, this is your homes I should appreciate it.
Speaker 1: They happen to casino very well, gentlemen, it won't take
Speaker 1: me long. First, nay, one say Holmes.
Speaker 2: At what time did you leave your hotel tonight?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 9: I do not know what time it was.
Speaker 2: Well, what made you I could not sleep?
Speaker 11: I knew that they had taken poor Heinrich's body away,
Speaker 11: but I felt that I must walk back there.
Speaker 3: It was the last place I saw him alive.
Speaker 2: How close did you come to mister Gilbert's body when
Speaker 2: you saw it lying there?
Speaker 11: So close enough to see who it was? Then I
Speaker 11: went into the casino to tell his wife. I knew
Speaker 11: what had happened.
Speaker 2: How did you know? You would say you didn't come
Speaker 2: close to the body.
Speaker 11: I could tell by every line of the body as
Speaker 11: it lay there. I could tell because I knew that
Speaker 11: poor Heinrich Stept would not be avenged.
Speaker 2: Thank you for same man. That would be all you.
Speaker 2: My girl, there's your homes. She has no alibi. Surely
Speaker 2: you get take that away. If I'm to conduct this investigation,
Speaker 2: I must do it my own way.
Speaker 13: Third old miss your ms please continue.
Speaker 2: You may go, Fruss Nyman.
Speaker 1: Missus Gilbert, where were you plied to our meeting in
Speaker 1: the casino tonight?
Speaker 2: Just before we discovered your husband's body?
Speaker 9: After I lets the hotel, I walked over here along
Speaker 9: the seafront.
Speaker 2: Can anyone verify that statement?
Speaker 9: I suppose not. I didn't meet anyone that I knew.
Speaker 2: And what did you do when you arrived at the casino?
Speaker 9: I played a little shamande sayer. A few months later,
Speaker 9: Missie Chevy came over to the table and as to be,
Speaker 9: I escort me.
Speaker 3: Over the club.
Speaker 9: Ten minutes after that we walked into you and doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: That is quite fulmous your homes I can swear to it.
Speaker 2: Thanks you, Missus Gilbert. I'm sorry to distress you with
Speaker 2: these questions. You may go.
Speaker 9: I'll wait outside, mister Holmes. I must know what happened.
Speaker 1: Wait for me, Madam. I shall join you in a
Speaker 1: few minutes. And i's strot your home, Hu well, another.
Speaker 2: Suspect of the poor Abi Alibine, hey gunnebet.
Speaker 13: I must same as your homes. Your methods puzzled me.
Speaker 13: It seems to me that both those women should be watched.
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with the inspector.
Speaker 2: Holmes is a body inspector.
Speaker 1: And I've asked two of your playing clothes men to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on the ladies. And now, Monsieur cheprey,
Speaker 1: I'd like to ask you.
Speaker 2: A few questions. Asked me any question in Jewish? Monsieur Holmes,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: You will agree that it is the custom of the
Speaker 1: casino to put money on the bodies of suicide after
Speaker 1: their death, to get the impression that gambling and gambling
Speaker 1: losses were not responsible for the tragedy.
Speaker 13: Well, I do not think, Come now, Cherfery, I know
Speaker 13: that is a.
Speaker 1: Fact as well as you do exactly now on those
Speaker 1: rather gruesome occasions. Whose responsibility is it to secrete the
Speaker 1: money yours? Or do you entrust the matter to an underling?
Speaker 1: I do it myself. I see.
Speaker 2: Did you paste the money on her Schneman tonight?
Speaker 1: Yes, monsieur I did, And did you also perform the
Speaker 1: same service on the body of mister Gilbert. Nor I
Speaker 1: knew nothing of that death until the German lady found
Speaker 1: Sneman running into the casino.
Speaker 13: He excuse me, interrupting, Monsieur her cross inspector, what is it?
Speaker 2: I think that you are wasting time.
Speaker 13: It is obvious that Madame Gilbert committed the crime.
Speaker 2: He knew of her husband's blood. She had no alibi,
Speaker 2: and she had the.
Speaker 13: Motive for it is not marriage itself, the greatest of
Speaker 13: all motives for murder.
Speaker 2: Oh, my dear inspector, how very cynical. Madame Gibert did
Speaker 2: not kill her husband.
Speaker 3: I know it.
Speaker 2: And what is your opinion, Watson said, German woman.
Speaker 3: She had no alibi either, and remember she was half
Speaker 3: mad with grief.
Speaker 2: Mister Shechvray, you say that you.
Speaker 1: Know missus Gilbert is not guilty. Do you know I
Speaker 1: was with her myself at the time the murder was committed.
Speaker 1: Oh indeed, how very interesting. And what time was the
Speaker 1: murder committed? Well it was it was. Our investigations have
Speaker 1: never established what time the murder was committed. Monsieur Bevrey,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid you walked into my track. You give me
Speaker 1: yourself away.
Speaker 3: Mary's Shevret.
Speaker 2: It was you Debray. I've known you a good many years,
Speaker 2: and this is going to be a hard thing to do.
Speaker 2: I am going to arrest you.
Speaker 3: Although you are not jeedey, but that revolves.
Speaker 2: Do not be frightened, doctor, I am not.
Speaker 1: Going to sue too, Gebret, Why did you murder Roger
Speaker 1: Gilbert tonight? Surely you know that too, Monsieur Holmes, because
Speaker 1: I am in love with his wife. She's young, beautiful Andrewitch.
Speaker 1: It did not occur to me until I said a
Speaker 1: young feol lying there tonight, pretending to be dead.
Speaker 2: In my profession, it is natural that I should carry
Speaker 2: a revolver. What was simpler?
Speaker 1: Mister Gulpert gave me the perfect opportunity.
Speaker 2: I could not resist it. Down that revolver, Chevrey, Why
Speaker 2: are you also frightened?
Speaker 1: Surely you know how I am going to use it
Speaker 1: this time, I think, monsieur, but it's a coward's way out.
Speaker 1: What an unperceptive remark for such a perceptive man.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: No, all my life I have been a gambler. I
Speaker 2: dambled to night for the highest states of all and
Speaker 2: the lost.
Speaker 1: No, No, I am not afraid to pay for my losses.
Speaker 3: O revolmsieur an extraordinary case, Helmser. I have suspected Chevet.
Speaker 2: And I all chat spected him from the beginning.
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't the only one who was stupid.
Speaker 4: Anaware inspector Ganivary thought it was the one true.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't conclusion for a detective inspector to arrive
Speaker 2: at It.
Speaker 3: Seemed logical enough to me at the time.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, my dear Watson, cold logic should have told
Speaker 1: you otherwise. Roger Gilbert has been losing heavily, and that
Speaker 1: planned the hopes. He obviously had no money on him.
Speaker 1: Therefore the money was planted in his pocket by Chevret
Speaker 1: after he shot him no mediphone before before the bullet
Speaker 1: holes on the banknotes provided that now, had the money
Speaker 1: been put there innocently, Gilbert would have done well, you know,
Speaker 1: come back to life as soon as the person placing
Speaker 1: it there had left.
Speaker 2: He would not have remained lying on the ground for
Speaker 2: a murderer to find him.
Speaker 4: And Chevrey must have bent over him as he lay there,
Speaker 4: placed the money in his breast pocket, and.
Speaker 2: Then fast excusely, Watson, well, I must.
Speaker 4: Say you solved it very neatly. You've told Inspector Ganniway
Speaker 4: that who wanted no.
Speaker 3: Credit to the case.
Speaker 1: Naturally, publicity would be unfavorable. If you remember, no one
Speaker 1: is supposed to know that we're in the sound of fract.
Speaker 7: I have some.
Speaker 6: Inspector learned a few tips about detection.
Speaker 1: Tonight possible cologne? And I hope that you have learned
Speaker 1: things about gambling. How do you mean, well, you're backing
Speaker 1: the wrong color. A gambler is usually superstitious and superstition Well,
Speaker 1: I should have told you what color to follow to night.
Speaker 4: I still don't understand your homes I was playing number
Speaker 4: ten exactly.
Speaker 2: Number ten is black.
Speaker 1: You should have followed a red color to night, Old fellow,
Speaker 1: the color of red ink, red ink, and blood.
Speaker 2: Say, doctor, that was a swell story. I didn't know
Speaker 2: you like to play roulette. You know, I make it
Speaker 2: out of system. For roulette, it's like yours. Every time
Speaker 2: you lose, you double your money and keep doubling.
Speaker 3: And tell you what if it's sister, mister bout, there's
Speaker 3: any one thing wrong with it? What's that you lose?
Speaker 3: You go broke for you win? They take my advice,
Speaker 3: don't gamble. You can't beat the laws of.
Speaker 6: Chance, but suppose I bet on a sure.
Speaker 2: Thing walk for instance.
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Speaker 1: It is, you know, because the Petrie family has been
Speaker 1: making wine for generations. They've been handing down from father
Speaker 1: to son, from father to son the art of turning
Speaker 1: luscious sun ripened grapes into delicious, fragrant wine. Ever since
Speaker 1: the Petrie family started their business way back in the
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds, They've been perfecting the art of wine making.
Speaker 1: That's why Petrie wine is always good wine. The Petrie
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Speaker 1: matter what type wine you prefer, why not take a
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Speaker 1: doctor Watson, what new sheer lot corn story going to
Speaker 1: tell us next week?
Speaker 4: Next week, mister Bouchel, I'm going to tell you of
Speaker 4: a strange adventure that Sherlock Holmes and I head when
Speaker 4: we were in Stretford on Avon many years ago. It
Speaker 4: concerns an actor, a mysterious voting accident, and several dead butterflies.
Speaker 2: This sounds good, darking I'll see you then we'll find me, Nana.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
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