This hamlet consisted of three houses, the kind that appears in an old tale.

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That was an old wives' tale.

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Next came the collapse of Gescartera, a stockbroking house run by an ambitious financier, he too with well-placed friends: a complex tale of greed, nepotism and fraud that cast a vivid light on Spain's traditional old-boy network in business.

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