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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 4: That's right, the South of France and the nineteen hundred,
Speaker 4: a beautiful playground, bordered by the bluest of blue seas,
Speaker 4: and populated with an extraordinary cross section of cosmopolitan europe
Speaker 4: rich man, poor man, beggar, man thief, all of them
Speaker 4: attracted by that riviera paradise, all of them drawn by
Speaker 4: the magical spell of a small white ball spinning round
Speaker 4: the rim of a rolet wheel.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me that you and the great Sherlock Horns
Speaker 1: were there on a gambling spray.
Speaker 3: We were not, mister Bartow.
Speaker 4: At the time my story begins we just can kill
Speaker 4: an extremely delicate mission, A mission I may say that
Speaker 4: h concerned the safety and good name of a.
Speaker 3: Very prominent member of the royal family.
Speaker 2: Say doctor, you don't mean one.
Speaker 3: Story at times, mister Bartow.
Speaker 4: In any event, my boy, I'm afraid that's the case
Speaker 4: about which my lips are sealed for all time. But
Speaker 4: to return to tonight's adventure, one June evening, I preceded
Speaker 4: Holmes to accompany me to the gambling casino at Fragus,
Speaker 4: not far from Cannes, where we were staying. It wasn't
Speaker 4: quite as fashionable as axino at Monte Carlo, but as
Speaker 4: I intended to do a little modest gambling myself, it
Speaker 4: seemed an establishment.
Speaker 3: More suited to my means. As we stood.
Speaker 4: There at the green bays covered tables, the chatter voices
Speaker 4: and the melodic chanting of the coupiers as they called
Speaker 4: the results of each tin of the wheel formed a
Speaker 4: background to a quiet conversation that Holmes and.
Speaker 3: I were heavy.
Speaker 2: I see very fast lost ten Watson number ten must
Speaker 2: come up soon when I cut your losses. Offer on comfort,
Speaker 2: a stove with me on.
Speaker 4: The wall, just a big wing, A couple more bets Homes,
Speaker 4: I have a big ten is bound to come up
Speaker 4: in a watson.
Speaker 2: I believe the blood of a gambler crosses through your veins.
Speaker 4: No harm in taking a little flatdow once in a while.
Speaker 3: Why don't you risk a few francs?
Speaker 2: Oh? Thanks you, my dear chap. The lore of averages
Speaker 2: convinces me that my money is safer in my pockets.
Speaker 2: In any case, I'm a little dubious as to the
Speaker 2: integrity of this particular casino.
Speaker 3: What made you say that?
Speaker 2: Well, you will observe that this roulette wheel has a
Speaker 2: double zero. Most continental wheels have only a single one,
Speaker 2: but indicate that this house is extremely concerned with its percentage.
Speaker 4: Gonna fake Oh, just two more turns of the wheel, Homes,
Speaker 4: and I'll take that walk with you.
Speaker 3: This is a Here's feeling.
Speaker 2: Why do you not on the other side.
Speaker 5: Of the taborite?
Speaker 2: I must always stand next to me? Hello, go trouble
Speaker 2: up there.
Speaker 3: I've placed my bet, so so let's go and see
Speaker 3: yes you?
Speaker 2: So, why do you play here beside me? I have
Speaker 2: afraid I don't see any reason why I can't play
Speaker 2: wherever I squish you. You've broken my luck ever since
Speaker 2: you conser the table. Life done nothing but lose.
Speaker 3: Please to move.
Speaker 2: Away, I'll move away yourself.
Speaker 5: You don't like my company, Heinrich, Why do you not
Speaker 5: stop now? You've already lost more than we can A.
Speaker 2: Part one more will suck. I can win it all
Speaker 2: back if only the young men will move away? Why
Speaker 2: should my husband? We've had a bad.
Speaker 4: One of not too We've last again, wat.
Speaker 2: You must stop now. I must stop.
Speaker 3: Inside because I've lost every sea.
Speaker 2: I hope you're set to spite.
Speaker 3: It's American.
Speaker 2: You're walking my luck in Woin. I hope that you
Speaker 2: and your friend will be wool. I've never heard such
Speaker 2: rubbish in my life. Were you listening to him, sir?
Speaker 2: I heard his last few remarks, mister Gilbert, Roger Gilbert,
Speaker 2: and this is my wife, Hella, how do you do?
Speaker 2: My name is Holmes, and this is my friend, doctor Watts,
Speaker 2: how do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 6: Didn't think his remarks were in a lot of places, Doctor,
Speaker 6: I said.
Speaker 4: They did, missus Gilbert, I don't see how I can
Speaker 4: possibly blame your husband for his run of bad luck.
Speaker 2: I didn't like to look on his face as he
Speaker 2: left the table, though he's the only idea who he is.
Speaker 2: His name is Schnaemer. He's staying at the same hotel
Speaker 2: as we are. I've never spoken to him, but I've
Speaker 2: heard it being Paige there.
Speaker 5: Well, you shouldn't gamble unless you can afford to Loo.
Speaker 2: I'm losing, Darling, and I can't afford it.
Speaker 6: Oh that I can let you have more money.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 2: No, Hell and I may have married an arrest, but
Speaker 2: I'm not going to use her fortune to gamble with. Oh,
Speaker 2: I lose my own money and then I'll quite last,
Speaker 2: said Watson.
Speaker 4: Yes, Holmes, this time, I know that number ten is
Speaker 4: going to come up.
Speaker 2: It's got or you know a piece I've lost again,
Speaker 2: Donald telling this is my bad night.
Speaker 5: Why don't you stop?
Speaker 4: Daddy. Homes have made three hundred and fifty francs.
Speaker 2: On this throw of the wheel, old fellow. But as
Speaker 2: you've lost some five hundred francs doing it, I can't
Speaker 2: say that you're a prot.
Speaker 6: Stuck at me, mister Holmes, I can see that you're
Speaker 6: no gambler.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid not, missus Gilbert and say at Homes or
Speaker 4: you may not like Roulette. You've taken a good many
Speaker 4: chances in your life with long odds against you too.
Speaker 4: I'll never the left chap in the sense missus Gilbert
Speaker 4: means that I am not a gambler.
Speaker 2: Where's the commotion over there.
Speaker 3: Around?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, the wife of that man that said I ruined him.
Speaker 3: I caught your.
Speaker 2: Us the trouble. He's asking for doctor.
Speaker 3: Doctor, come along then?
Speaker 2: Will you excuse me? Beaus? Thank you excuse me that
Speaker 2: i'm when I'm your doctor? But you so DNA What happened? Madam?
Speaker 3: It is my husband?
Speaker 2: Is he?
Speaker 5: I just found him lying out in the garden. Please
Speaker 5: come with me at once, gentleman.
Speaker 2: Of course, will will madam?
Speaker 3: What seems to be the matter with him?
Speaker 5: Hey, doctor, I think she is dead. He's lying by
Speaker 5: that tree. Doctor, please see if you can help him.
Speaker 2: Somebody else seems to be on the scene before us,
Speaker 2: who use her? I am monsieur safe doctor at the casino.
Speaker 2: Do any of you noticed poor man?
Speaker 5: I am his wife?
Speaker 2: Is he? Is he dead? I am afraid so, madam,
Speaker 2: let me look at him.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor.
Speaker 2: What's your husband gambling in tonight? Madam? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He was poor.
Speaker 2: He loves everything that we have.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid he's dead. Madame shot to the.
Speaker 2: Heart, so is hide Watson looks like it. Yeah, powder
Speaker 2: burns on the shirt front. Revolver cluched in the right hand,
Speaker 2: fingers in a natural position. The angle of the wound
Speaker 2: settles it. Obviously self inflicted.
Speaker 3: I misuse you slipped out of casino.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with him? I'm afraid he's dead, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 5: Yes, he committed suicide. I hope, young man, that you
Speaker 5: are satisfied.
Speaker 3: All night you brought me bad luck. He asked you
Speaker 3: to move away from him.
Speaker 5: To change his luck, but no, you could not do.
Speaker 2: It all flush Naeman. I'm terribly sorry, but I really
Speaker 2: don't see how you can blame me.
Speaker 5: I do blame you, and I also blame you, Monsieur
Speaker 5: chevrin He.
Speaker 2: But what have I done? Madam?
Speaker 5: Why do you let a man lose all his money
Speaker 5: at your tables? His life so cheap to you on
Speaker 5: money is so important that you cannot close the tables
Speaker 5: to somebody.
Speaker 2: Before he's going done. I am a sympathy for you
Speaker 2: in your Tattit loss, but the casino can't be responsible.
Speaker 2: If your husband could not afford to gamble, then he
Speaker 2: should not come here. However, we to know the financial
Speaker 2: limitations about customers. You said your husband lost everything you
Speaker 2: had tonight, madam?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Everything?
Speaker 2: Then how do you account for the sheaf of banknotes
Speaker 2: in his breast pocket?
Speaker 3: It must be several thousand francs?
Speaker 2: Then he wasn't ru and his suicide therefore cannot be
Speaker 2: blamed on his losses at my tessina, Madam, how do
Speaker 2: you count this money for us three months? I do
Speaker 2: not understand.
Speaker 5: I really kept nothing from me. I know that he
Speaker 5: had not so much money on him that he started tonight. Well,
Speaker 5: why do you all look at me like that?
Speaker 3: Is it what you think?
Speaker 6: You think?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 3: Quite?
Speaker 2: You stainted?
Speaker 3: I've got her.
Speaker 2: Please just get into her room. You can take her
Speaker 2: to my suite in a Tsino. No, let's take her
Speaker 2: to the hotel. My wife will look after poor a woman.
Speaker 2: She's had a dreadful shock. She can probably do with
Speaker 2: another woman's companies that are considered it of you, mister Gilbert.
Speaker 2: Where you staying at the hotel Creon, it's quite near here.
Speaker 2: I get a cabin while I'm doing that. Watson, see
Speaker 2: if you can revive her. William. They're gona take her
Speaker 2: to the Hotel Creon. It kind of you missus Gilbert,
Speaker 2: to let us bring the poor lady into your suite.
Speaker 6: But the least I can inspider what she said about
Speaker 6: Roger bringing her husband bad luck.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she'll need your help when she wakes up,
Speaker 2: Helen Is.
Speaker 4: I think you will find that you'll sleep for summers.
Speaker 3: I gave her a strong sedative.
Speaker 2: We were just about to have a drink. Gentlemen, do
Speaker 2: you care to join us? Oh? Thank you, sir Gilbert.
Speaker 6: Roger was just telling me that quite a large summer
Speaker 6: money was found on here shaman's body.
Speaker 2: Mister Holms, 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?
Speaker 2: Well, the money was placed there after he had shot himself.
Speaker 2: The banks were in his breast pocket, if you remember,
Speaker 2: and that's the useful place to carry money though it
Speaker 2: is the easiest pocket for someone to insert it without
Speaker 2: disturbing the body. But why are should someone places money
Speaker 2: on it after his suicide to prevent the casino from
Speaker 2: getting a bad name. I've heard of it being done
Speaker 2: on several similar occasions gives the impression that the unfortunate
Speaker 2: victim had other motives than gambling losses to a country suicide.
Speaker 4: Scott, you mean that one of the casino employers found
Speaker 4: the body lying there and slipped the money in his
Speaker 4: burst pocket before we arrived on the sea.
Speaker 2: As you know, my dear, what's not a gambling man.
Speaker 2: But I'll lay you one hundred to one. That is
Speaker 2: what happened.
Speaker 3: Well that's a new one.
Speaker 2: Well, here are your drinks, gentlemen. Drink, say Helen. Mister
Speaker 2: Holmes has given me a brain wave.
Speaker 6: Another one.
Speaker 2: What is it this time? Roger? Now I've been losing
Speaker 2: very heavily tonight, Roger.
Speaker 6: I've told you if you need money, I'll be only
Speaker 6: But I don't.
Speaker 2: I've got a scheme for making some. I'm going to
Speaker 2: gamble again tonight after dinner.
Speaker 3: If I lose.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'll do. I'll stain my shirt front with ready,
Speaker 2: walk out in the grounds, fire a shot, and lie
Speaker 2: down as I'm dead. I 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
Speaker 2: saying mister Holmes, he it's a whimsical won at any rate.
Speaker 2: Who knows you might even be successful? Roger, you're not
Speaker 2: really going to do it. I'm sure perhaps I'll get
Speaker 2: some of my losses back that way. Well, let's drink
Speaker 2: to a gentleman. At least I may have been upon
Speaker 2: an idea of making money very bad, My dear Watson,
Speaker 2: you will have to work hard at your practice when
Speaker 2: you get back to England. Your infallible system appears to
Speaker 2: be extremely infallible.
Speaker 4: You have the fellow told me about it, said it's good,
Speaker 4: and miss it's just a matter of doubling who's takes
Speaker 4: each time.
Speaker 2: You'll look and then, my dear fellow, I've been studying
Speaker 2: your system, but I can tell you a really infallible
Speaker 2: way of making money at roulette.
Speaker 3: You care, what is it?
Speaker 2: Well, own the gambling house and operate the tables yourself.
Speaker 2: The arts would be all in your favor. Would a
Speaker 2: brilliant suggestion, not gambling to the night Watson near eleven
Speaker 2: the clow.
Speaker 3: I think, so let's take a stroll around the other table.
Speaker 2: Other way, old fellow. The American mister Gilbert was losing
Speaker 2: heavily again, tonight, he was, I wonder if.
Speaker 4: You'll try that trick that he threatened, the one with
Speaker 4: a read ink shot in the night.
Speaker 2: I should be at all surprised. As a matter of interest,
Speaker 2: I saw him leave the tables about half an hour
Speaker 2: a girl.
Speaker 4: Here comes his wife on the arm of Mossu Chevret,
Speaker 4: the director of the casino.
Speaker 2: Agree with believing Missus Gilbert Monsieur.
Speaker 5: Hello, mister Holmes, doctor Watson. Monsieur Chevay is giving me
Speaker 5: a personally conducted.
Speaker 2: Tour of the casino. It's quite fascinating, and it is
Speaker 2: quite fascinating for me to have so beautiful a woman
Speaker 2: on my arm. My, myselle, I know that I am
Speaker 2: the envy of all the men in the room. I
Speaker 2: will stop flattering me so much. I'm not used to it.
Speaker 2: Missus Gilbert, how is a rush? Naiman?
Speaker 6: She seems much better. She wakened an hour ago and
Speaker 6: insisted on going back to her own room. I wanted
Speaker 6: her to spend the night with us in our sweet
Speaker 6: but you wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 4: You think I should drop in, and silfore I go
Speaker 4: to bed at home.
Speaker 2: You have finished the temping fortnight, perhap stopped her?
Speaker 4: Perhaps about it Monsieur Chevy. I've had a bad run
Speaker 4: at the tables.
Speaker 2: I am so sorry. Has anyone seen Roger? He left
Speaker 2: the tables about half an hour ago, Missus Gilbert.
Speaker 3: After doing as I did and losing quite heavily.
Speaker 2: I lost again today.
Speaker 6: I wonder if you'll try that new system he was
Speaker 6: talking about.
Speaker 2: We were just discussing that possibility ourselves, Missus Gilbert.
Speaker 4: Missus Gilbith, Missus gilpet's rush name.
Speaker 3: And you shouldn't have left charge tub.
Speaker 5: It is too late to worry for me here, doctor,
Speaker 5: It is for Missus Gilbert now.
Speaker 3: That you should worry.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, madam Well, I went.
Speaker 5: Back just now to be a poor hurry tide. There
Speaker 5: lying in the grass, I saw another body. I was
Speaker 5: too shocked to go too close, but I am quite
Speaker 5: sure that I recognized your husband, Missus Gilbert. Oh, doctor Watson,
Speaker 5: she's ruined Roger's trick.
Speaker 3: You have taken fright and bolted.
Speaker 2: By the time we get blast, and maybe let's go
Speaker 2: at once and find out, shall we, he hasn't gone.
Speaker 3: He's still lying now.
Speaker 6: It's the most convincing spectacle that reddink really does look
Speaker 6: like blood.
Speaker 2: Yes, and blood sometimes looks like read ink. Mister Gibbert, Roger,
Speaker 2: get up. The joke's spoiled, Roger.
Speaker 3: Get up.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid that's impossible, missus Gubbert, He's dead.
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Speaker 2: Well, that is so. The young American's joke turned out
Speaker 2: to be another tragedy.
Speaker 4: Yes, the poor fellow was lying there dead with a
Speaker 4: bullet wound in the heart, the great spresh of blood
Speaker 4: stating the whiteness of his shirt front.
Speaker 2: What happened next?
Speaker 4: The su Chevre, director of the casino, took the distort
Speaker 4: widow away from the scene, while Holmes and I examined
Speaker 4: the body closely. Within a few minutes we were joined
Speaker 4: by Inspector Ganivet of the French police.
Speaker 3: As we stood there in.
Speaker 4: The moonlight, the sounds of music could be heard from
Speaker 4: the casino.
Speaker 3: It was hard to.
Speaker 4: Believe that two men had died in that lovely garden
Speaker 4: since the moon had risen.
Speaker 7: Monsieur Holmes, you and doctor Watson have concluded your examination. Yes,
Speaker 7: Inspector gannav you favor me with your observations. You say
Speaker 7: that you are certain that this is not enough the suicide.
Speaker 7: I'm sure of, an inspector, look at the wound. The
Speaker 7: bullet entered the body at a direct right angle, whereas.
Speaker 2: A self inflicted shot is always found of brick claim
Speaker 2: years that is so.
Speaker 7: Then you suggest that this man was shot from above
Speaker 7: as he lay on the ground pretending to be dead.
Speaker 2: I'm convinced of it. Why, Monsieur well for two reasons,
Speaker 2: though it's impossible to be sure without elaborate retest. I'm
Speaker 2: certain beneath those bloodstains are stains of red ink. Look
Speaker 2: for your self, Inspector.
Speaker 7: Hmm, yes, indeed he does look like it.
Speaker 2: What is your other reason.
Speaker 7: For being certain that this man was shot as he
Speaker 7: lay here pretending dead.
Speaker 2: I showed the bank notes, Watson, you are, inspector.
Speaker 4: We found them stuffed in his breast.
Speaker 7: Pocket, so that notes with a bullet hole through the
Speaker 7: middle of them very illuminating. They tell me, gentlemen, how
Speaker 7: many people knew.
Speaker 2: Of this, this little plot?
Speaker 7: You have told me about this plan of the dead
Speaker 7: man's to pretend to be shot?
Speaker 2: Just three people, Inspector, Dr Watson, myself and missus Gilbert All.
Speaker 7: Then the answer is obvious. You and your friend are innocent.
Speaker 7: It must be the wife who killed him. No one
Speaker 7: else knew of the plan.
Speaker 4: I'm not too 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 7: From what you have told me of her husband's suicide,
Speaker 7: she might easily have had a motive for murdering.
Speaker 2: Miss cam Come, come, gentlemen, surely gets obvious. Who murdered
Speaker 2: mister Gilbert.
Speaker 3: Oh, monsieur, certainly one of the two windows.
Speaker 2: Since there seems to be some doubt in your minds,
Speaker 2: I suggest we returned to the casino. I can promise
Speaker 2: you the answer to your question within a very few minutes. Well,
Speaker 2: Monsieur chev, now that we're all assembled in your office,
Speaker 2: I shall sit down quart and let Inspector Gannaway conduct
Speaker 2: his examination.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, Monsieur homes. No, you have handled the
Speaker 7: case so far. Please to continue it to the end, Yester.
Speaker 2: Holmes, I should appreciate it. Be happy to car very well, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: it won't take me long. Fashman, your her homes? And
Speaker 2: what time did you leave your hotel tonight? Well?
Speaker 5: I do not know what time it was.
Speaker 2: Well what made you leave it?
Speaker 3: I could not sleep.
Speaker 5: I knew that they had taken poor Heinrich's body away,
Speaker 5: but I felt that I must walk back there. It
Speaker 5: 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 back?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Close enough to see who it was? Then I went
Speaker 5: into the casino to tell his wife. I knew what
Speaker 5: had happened.
Speaker 2: How did you know? You didn't come close to the body.
Speaker 5: I could tell by every line of the body as
Speaker 5: it lay there.
Speaker 2: I could tell because.
Speaker 5: I knew that poor heinrichstat would not be avenged.
Speaker 2: Thank you, fash Man. That would be all you, my girl, Miss.
Speaker 7: Your Holmes, she has no alibi.
Speaker 2: Surely you take anaway. If I'm to conduct this investigation,
Speaker 2: I must do it in my own.
Speaker 7: Way, bird old, Miss you Holmes, please continue, you.
Speaker 2: May go, Fashnaman, Missus Gilbert, Yes, mister Holmes, where were
Speaker 2: you plied to? I'm meeting in the casino tonight? Just
Speaker 2: before we discovered your husband's body. I left the hotel.
Speaker 6: I walked over here along the seafront.
Speaker 2: Can anyone verify that statement? I suppose not.
Speaker 6: I didn't meet anyone.
Speaker 2: That I knew. And what did you do when you
Speaker 2: arrived at the casino?
Speaker 6: I played a little Chamande fair. A few months later,
Speaker 6: Misie Chevn came over to the table and asked if
Speaker 6: you had escort me over the club. Ten minutes after that,
Speaker 6: we walked into you and doctor Watson.
Speaker 2: That is quite soon, Miss your Holmes, I can swear
Speaker 2: to it. Thank you, Missus Gilbert. I'm sorry to distress you.
Speaker 2: With these questions, you may go.
Speaker 6: I'll wait outside, mister Holmes, I must know what happened.
Speaker 2: Wait for me, then, madam, I shall join you in
Speaker 2: a few minutes. And that's got your home. Hu well,
Speaker 2: another suspect for the poor alibine, Hey gunibete.
Speaker 7: They must say, miss your Holmes, your methods puzzled me.
Speaker 7: It seems to me that both those women should be watched.
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with the inspector Holmes.
Speaker 2: He's our budding inspector. And I've asked two of your
Speaker 2: playing clothes men to keep an eye on the ladies.
Speaker 2: And now, Monsieur Chpree, I'd like to ask you a
Speaker 2: few questions. Ask me any question you wish, Missie Holmes.
Speaker 2: Thank you. You will agree either that it is the
Speaker 2: custom of the casino to put money on the bodies
Speaker 2: of suicides after their death, the impression that gambling and
Speaker 2: gambling losses were not responsible for the tragedy, well, I
Speaker 2: do not think.
Speaker 7: Come now, Chevre, I know that is a fact as
Speaker 7: well as.
Speaker 2: You do exactly now on those rather grucive occasions, whose
Speaker 2: responsibility is it to secrete the money yours? Or do
Speaker 2: you entrust the matter to an underling? I do it myself.
Speaker 2: I see did you place the money on her Shneman tonight? Yes, monsieur,
Speaker 2: I did. And did you also perform the same service
Speaker 2: on the body of mister Gilbert?
Speaker 3: Nor?
Speaker 2: I knew nothing of that death until the German lady
Speaker 2: foul Schneman turning into the casino.
Speaker 7: Excuse me interrupting, monsieur a cross inspector, what is it?
Speaker 7: I think that you are wasting time? It is obvious
Speaker 7: that Madame Gilbert committed the crime. She knew of her
Speaker 7: husband's plood, She had no alibi, and she had the
Speaker 7: motive for it is not marriage itself, the greatest of
Speaker 7: all motives for murder.
Speaker 2: Or, my dear inspector, how very sen ale, Madame Debert
Speaker 2: did not kill her husband.
Speaker 4: I know it.
Speaker 2: And what is your opinion?
Speaker 3: What's it's a German woman? She had no alibi either,
Speaker 3: and remember she was half mad with grief.
Speaker 2: Mister Chevrey, you say that you know missus Gilbert is
Speaker 2: not guilty. How do you know? I was with her
Speaker 2: myself at the time the murder was committed. Oh indeed,
Speaker 2: how very interesting? And what time was the murder committed?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: It was it was our investigations have never established what
Speaker 2: time the murder was committed, Monsieur Schvrey, I'm afraid you've
Speaker 2: walked into my trap. You've given yourself away.
Speaker 3: Y it Scott Chevret.
Speaker 2: It was you, Chevrey.
Speaker 7: I have known you a good many years, and this
Speaker 7: is going to be a hard thing to do.
Speaker 2: I am going to arrest you. Oh no, you're not jeevy,
Speaker 2: but revolves do not be fighting data. I am not
Speaker 2: going to shoot you, Jefrey. Why did you murder Roger
Speaker 2: Gilbert tonight? Surely you know that too, miss your Holmes,
Speaker 2: because I am in love with his wife. She's young,
Speaker 2: beautiful and rich. It did not occur to me until
Speaker 2: I saw the young fool lying there tonight, pretending to
Speaker 2: be dead. In my profession, it is natural that I
Speaker 2: should carry a revolver. What was simpler? Mister Dipper gave
Speaker 2: me the perfect opportunity. I could not resist it to
Speaker 2: turn that revolver. Chevrey, why are you also frightened?
Speaker 3: Truly?
Speaker 2: You know how I am going to use it this time?
Speaker 2: I think so, monsieur. But it's a cowards way out.
Speaker 2: What an unperceptive remark for such a perceptive man. No, No,
Speaker 2: all my life I have been a gambler. I gambled
Speaker 2: tonight for the highest takes of all and I lost. No, No,
Speaker 2: I am not afraid to pay for my losses or reformers.
Speaker 4: An extraordinary dishermes I never suspected, and I already have
Speaker 4: respected him from the beginning. Well, I wasn't the only
Speaker 4: one who was stupid away the inspector ganiwe.
Speaker 3: Thought it was the wife.
Speaker 2: True, but it passing conclusion for a detective inspector to
Speaker 2: arrive at.
Speaker 3: It seemed logical enough to me at the time.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, my dear Watson, cold logic should have
Speaker 2: told you otherwise. Roger Gilbert had been losing Gibolt and
Speaker 2: had planned this hoax. He obviously had no money on him.
Speaker 2: Therefore the money was planted in his pocket by Chevret
Speaker 2: after he shot him. No madyphone before before the bullet
Speaker 2: hole through the banknotes provided that now, had the money
Speaker 2: been put there innocently, Gilbert would have well, you know,
Speaker 2: come back to life as soon as the person placing
Speaker 2: it there had left. He would not have remained lying
Speaker 2: on the ground for a murderer to find him.
Speaker 4: And Chevy must have bent over him as he lay
Speaker 4: there placed the money in his breast pocket and then
Speaker 4: fired precisely. Watson, I must say you solved it very neatly.
Speaker 4: You've told Inspector Ganiway that you wanted.
Speaker 3: No credit in the case.
Speaker 2: Naturally, publicity would be unfavorable. If you remember, no one
Speaker 2: is supposed to know that we're in the south of fraft.
Speaker 4: The inspector learned a few tips about detections tonight.
Speaker 2: As possible, Fellow, and I hope that you have learned
Speaker 2: a few road gambling. How do you mean you're backing
Speaker 2: the wrong color? A gambler is usually superstitious and superstition Well,
Speaker 2: I should have told you what color to follow tonight.
Speaker 4: I still don't understand your homes I was playing number
Speaker 4: ten exactly.
Speaker 2: Number ten is black. Who should have followed a red
Speaker 2: color tonight, Old Fellow? The color of red ink, red ink,
Speaker 2: and blood?
Speaker 1: Say, doctor, that was a swell story. I didn't know
Speaker 1: you like to play roulette. You know, I figured out
Speaker 1: a system for roulette.
Speaker 2: It's like yours.
Speaker 1: Every time you lose, you double your money and keep
Speaker 1: doubling until you went.
Speaker 4: It's a great system, mister Buckle, Is any one thing
Speaker 4: wrong with it?
Speaker 2: What's that you lose a.
Speaker 4: Go broke for we wi my advice, don't gamb You
Speaker 4: can't beat the.
Speaker 3: Laws of chumps.
Speaker 1: But suppose I bet on a sure thing? What for instance,
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Speaker 2: Well, Doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story to tell us?
Speaker 2: Next week?
Speaker 4: Next week, mister about tell I'm going to tell you
Speaker 4: of a strange adventure that Sherlock Holmes and I had when.
Speaker 3: We were in Stretford on even many years ago.
Speaker 4: It concerns an actor, a mysterious voting accident and s
Speaker 4: who dead butterflies.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
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