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The Doctor's Wager
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Don Enrique bowed.
"Why certainly," he said, "I shall be delighted. But I must warn you that you are bound to lose. How much?"
"Oh a mere truffle," said Bumpo—"just for the fun of the thing, you know. What do you say to three-thousand pesetas?"
"I agree," said the Spaniard bowing once more. "I will meet you after the bullfight to-morrow."
"So that's all right," said Polynesia as we came out to join the Doctor. "I feel as though quite a load had been taken off my mind."
