The Deaf-Mute

A group from New York spent a weekend gambling in Las Vegas. One of the gamblers on that trip wins $200,000. He wants to keep it a secret, so he decides not to come back with the others, taking a later plane home -- arriving back 4 a.m. He immediately goes to the backyard of his house, digs a hole and puts the money in it. The next morning he walks outside and finds only an empty hole. However, he notices footsteps leading from the hole to the house next door, which is owned by a deaf-mute. On the same street lives a professor who understands sign language and is a friend of the deaf man. Grabbing his gun, the enraged man goes to wake up the professor and drags him to the deaf man's house.

" Tell this guy that if he doesn't give me back my $200,000 I'm gonna kill him!" he yells at the professor.

The prof conveys the message to his friend, and his friend answers in sign language, "I hid it in my basement, inside the clothing chest."

The professor turns to the gunman and says, "He's not going to tell you. He says he'd rather die first - besides he says you don't have the guts."