"That little charabanc down there just making the turn off Forty-seventh?"
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"charabanc"
Professor's charabanc probably looked something like that but, since they're viewing it from above, my guess is it's an open top. Why is he pointing it out? I don't know! I don't read ahead! I guess char à bancs means something like "chariot with benches" in French. I say "I guess" because I am terrible at doing proper research. You really shouldn't be reading any of this.
"Forty-seventh"
They're probably above the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago. The Encyclopedia of Chicago says of the area, "Back of the Yards was settled by skilled Irish and German butchers, joined in the 1870s and 1880s by Czechs. Here in 1889, developer Samuel Gross built one of his earliest subdivisions of cheap workingmen's cottages." They don't have any mention of a crazed Austrian Archduke setting up a Most Dangerous Game franchise here.
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