- Yates is gone.
- Yates is gone? And I gave him a check this morning for a thousand dollars. It's a good thing it was my personal check.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Cocoanuts (1929) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:30:52.146 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- It's a little engagement present just given me by Mr. Yates.

- He wrote it just now,

- They are both in his handwriting. Let me read it to you.

- It shows how to get to Cocoanut Manor and the hollow tree stump, and reads, Hollow stump, jewels.

- I don't believe it.

- See for yourself.

- Yates is gone.

- Yates is gone? And I gave him a check this morning for a thousand dollars. It's a good thing it was my personal check.

- There's a man outside who wants to see you with a black mustache.

- Tell him I've got one.

- Well, I think you will want to see him. His name is Mr. John W. Berryman.

- He has accepted my architectural plans for the development of Cocoanut Manor.

- Well, happy days, old boy.

- Thank you. Thank you.

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