The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, and Other New Stories
A broke American is handed an uncashable million-pound note as a rich man's bet and discovers that just carrying it, never spending it, is enough to buy him an entire life.
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A broke American is handed an uncashable million-pound note as a rich man's bet and discovers that just carrying it, never spending it, is enough to buy him an entire life.
A prince locks a thousand nobles inside a walled abbey to outrun a plague, and the plague walks in anyway, dressed for the party.
A minor nobleman reads himself insane on chivalry romances, then rides out as a knight-errant to fight giants that turn out to be windmills.
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