Tontine

It's kind of like a pension plan in a way in that sense, you know, where you benefit if you live really long and you don't if you die fairly early.

Yeah, tontine is another thing that comes to my mind as well.

more closely, yeah, you're right.

That's probably a closer...

Tonty is dead, and I never saw anyone who even pretended to regret him.

And as for the Tontine system, a word will suffice for all the purposes of this unvarnished narrative.

A number of sprightly youths, the more the merrier, put up a certain sum of money, which is then funded in a pool under trustees.

Coming on for a century later, the proceeds are fluttered for a moment in the face of the last survivor, who is probably deaf, so that he cannot even hear of his success, and who is certainly dying, so that he might just as well have lost.

Only a man with a solid talent for being a bore.

Rather cheery, I dare say, on a desert island, but on a railway journey, insupportable.

You should hear him on Tonty, that ass that started Tontines.

He's incredible on Tonty.

Missing.

No answer to general call having been received during the last week from following overdues, they are posted as missing: Atlantis, W one seven six three oh, Canton-Valparaiso; Audhumla, W eight oh nine, Stockholm to Odessa; Berenice, W two two oh six, Riga to Vladivostok; Draco, E four four six, Coventry to Punta Salinas; Tontine, E three oh six eight, Cape Roth to Angava; Woosung, E four one seven seven six, Hankow to Lobito Bay.

General call.

All mark boats out for: Jane Eyre, W six nine nine oh, Port Rupert to City of Mexico; Santander, W five five one four, Gobi Desert to Manila; V. Edmundson, E nine six nine oh, Kandahar to Fiume.