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...Prince of Wales. Mr. Brown, when he purchased her, sold another yacht (in which he had sailed from Manhattan never to return) to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. He ordered the Valfreya?sleek and opulently resembling J. P. Morgan's Corsair?to steam into the little harbor of Brightlingsea, off the Essex coast of England. That...
...Thereafter, whenever the moon was not full, Mr. Brown almost daily caused his chef to heat large panfuls of gold and silver coins as hot as possible on the galley stove. The beggars of Brightlingsea, anxious to humor his whims, appeared in rowboats and caught the coins in their bare hands as Mr. Brown hurled the bits of gold and silver overboard with a shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in �100 notes...
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