Short+Story+The+Bet

This is part one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90g2vHbFO6w

This is part two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfwPHjqjukk

Text of story:
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtml

Summary:
Once there was a party this banker gave and they were having a discussion on whether the death penalty was right or wrong. The banker said it was ok to have because people would rather die than have to spend life in jail. The other guests disagreed with him and said the government does not have the right to decide who should live and who should. A young lawyer was there and said he would choose the life in jail because he said it is better to live in confinement then not live at all. The banker was angered and bet him two million dollars that he couldn’t last in solitary confinement for five years. The lawyer took the bet, but instead of five years the lawyer made it fifteen. They both agreed and made the rules of the bet. The banker later though if there was a point to this bet and although he knew it was nonsense the bet still went on.

The man started the bet on November 14, 1870 and would end November 14, 1885. The first year from the notes the man wrote it showed that the man suffered from loneliness and depression, but he played the piano and read books. The second year he no longer played the piano. The sixth year he started learning new languages and studying history. The tenth year he read nothing, but the Gospels. The thirteenth year he read mostly natural science and chemistry. By the fifteenth year the banker was regretting betting his two million. He went in the garden the lock was rusted because it had never been open in fifteen years and he read a note the lawyer had wrote which said he was going to leave the garden a little before his time was up because he had learned he don’t want the money and that he was not the same person he was when he first came in.