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Five Hundred Dollars And The Constantinople Scam
A narrator inherits five hundred dollars and is tempted by an unscrupulous promoter named Lynx to invest in a bogus Minnesota town called Constantinople. The tale follows the investor's gleaming dreams, a doomed land purchase, a disastrous journey, and a final reversal revealing the fraud.
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Deborah
Micawber
Mr. Flint
Lynx
Whittington
London
Bagatelle
Minnesota
Constantinople
Sea of
Marmara
Bosphorus
Chicago
Bishop Berkeley
Mr. Lynx
Bank
Hyde Park
Flint
Boston
Julia Mackintosh
Newport
Saratoga
Nahant
White Mountains
Niagara
Byzantium
New England
Poe
Gregory Flint