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    The story is about a bet made 15 years ago between a banker and young lawyer about whether life imprisonment or the death penalty is more humane. The banker argued death was more humane, while the lawyer said he would choose life in prison over death. To settle the bet, the banker wagered 2 million rubles that the lawyer could not withstand 15 years of imprisonment. The lawyer accepted and was imprisoned in the banker's garden house with access only to books, a piano, and wine. As the 15 years neared their end, the banker planned to kill the lawyer to avoid paying the debt, but discovered the lawyer intended to leave his room 5 minutes early, forfeiting the bet.

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    The story is about a bet made 15 years ago between a banker and young lawyer about whether life imprisonment or the death penalty is more humane. The banker argued death was more humane, while the lawyer said he would choose life in prison over death. To settle the bet, the banker wagered 2 million rubles that the lawyer could not withstand 15 years of imprisonment. The lawyer accepted and was imprisoned in the banker's garden house with access only to books, a piano, and wine. As the 15 years neared their end, the banker planned to kill the lawyer to avoid paying the debt, but discovered the lawyer intended to leave his room 5 minutes early, forfeiting the bet.

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    The story is about a bet made 15 years ago between a banker and young lawyer about whether life imprisonment or the death penalty is more humane. The banker argued death was more humane, while the lawyer said he would choose life in prison over death. To settle the bet, the banker wagered 2 million rubles that the lawyer could not withstand 15 years of imprisonment. The lawyer accepted and was imprisoned in the banker's garden house with access only to books, a piano, and wine. As the 15 years neared their end, the banker planned to kill the lawyer to avoid paying the debt, but discovered the lawyer intended to leave his room 5 minutes early, forfeiting the bet.

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    The Bet Summary

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    The story is about a bet made 15 years ago between a banker and young lawyer about whether life imprisonment or the death penalty is more humane. The banker argued death was more humane, while the lawyer said he would choose life in prison over death. To settle the bet, the banker wagered 2 million rubles that the lawyer could not withstand 15 years of imprisonment. The lawyer accepted and was imprisoned in the banker's garden house with access only to books, a piano, and wine. As the 15 years neared their end, the banker planned to kill the lawyer to avoid paying the debt, but discovered the lawyer intended to leave his room 5 minutes early, forfeiting the bet.

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    The Bet is a story about a banker and a young lawyer who made a bet about what is

    more human, life imprisonment or death penalty. The story is narrated from the
    viewpoint of the banker and starts by the banker remembering the bet he has made
    with a young lawyer fifteen years ago. The banker argues that death penalty is
    more humane than life imprisonment while the lawyer insists that he would choose
    life imprisonment over the death penalty. To settle the bet, the banker staked two
    million rubles that the lawyer cannot withstand imprisonment, a challenge that the
    lawyer accepted, setting the duration of his imprisonment for fifteen years for two
    million rubles which he would receive after.
    The bet was on and the lawyer was secluded inside the bankers garden house and
    was deprived of any contact with the outside world and was only permitted of
    reading materials, a piano and wine. The lawyer spends his time reading and
    studying and experiencing the world through the books. The lawyer, during those
    fifteen years, gambled most of his fortunes in the stock exchange and was in debt.
    A day before the date of the lawyers release, he plans to kill the lawyer as paying
    the two million would cause him in great debt only to find out that the lawyer
    intends to leave his room five minutes before the fifteen years of imprisonment
    ends, thus forfeiting the bet.

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