1:16:02
Your inheritance.
1:16:05
My father may live
until he's 100.
1:16:07
- He's not a rich man anyway.
- That makes no difference.
1:16:09
- And you will bet? The same amount?
- Same.
1:16:11
The same.
1:16:14
My inheritance.
1:16:16
- But you already have it.
- Yes.
1:16:18
- Your works?
- Yes, everything.
1:16:22
You... You will wager
all that?
1:16:24
Yes.
1:16:27
Five weeks without...
without even a game of penny poker...
1:16:32
and... and now this.
1:16:41
Very pretty, this fretwork.
1:16:43
It is quite ingenious.
1:16:45
Ah, here is my head clerk.
1:16:48
Come in, Jeffris.
We have a question for you.
1:16:51
Miss Leplastrier, Mr. Hopkins.
This is from the horse's mouth.
1:16:55
Jeffris is quite the explorer.
1:16:57
He has been there, up north,
on the road survey.
1:17:01
- Wasn't it, Jeffris?
- Yes.
1:17:03
He knows all
the ins and outs.
1:17:07
Would that road
be of any use?
1:17:10
If you were carrying cargo
of any sort...
1:17:12
- it would be a fool's way to go.
- Oh.
1:17:16
Well, we... Yes.
1:17:18
We will have cargo, yes.
1:17:21
- Then you must go by sea.
- Mr. Hopkins is set on going overland.
1:17:26
- Is that so?
- Yes. Yes, I'm afraid it is.
1:17:29
Going by land, of course,
one of your main problems...
1:17:32
is the butchering habits
of the blacks up north.
1:17:35
But you must know that.
If you go...
1:17:38
as all the incompetents
have done...
1:17:40
smack bang through the center
of their kingdoms, what can you expect?
1:17:43
It is like thrusting your bare hand
into a beehive.
1:17:48
Gets them hopping mad.
1:17:50
Ergo, you take your time...
1:17:53
go around their boundaries,
and you're left alone.
1:17:58
- Who knows these boundaries?
- I do.