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How much gold is there in it?" "Sixty thousand rubles, your highness." Potemkin's eyes sparkled. "A considerable sum," said he, stroking his mane. "I order two services of the same value. Do you hear? They must be ready on this day week." "And the payment?" Artankopf ventured to inquire. "I shall pay you in advance," replied Potemkin, with a laugh.
While his long mane was being combed into order, Potemkin amused himself playing like a juggler with three little golden balls, while the pale and trembling jeweller stood wondering what new robbery awaited him now. "Ah, Artankopf, you are there?" said the prince, when his toilet had been completed. "I have an order for you."
The jeweller made a salam, and muttered some unintelligible words of which Potemkin took no notice. "I saw a magnificent service of gold yesterday in your showcase." "It is an order, your highness," said Artankopf, quickly. "Then I cannot buy it?" "Impossible, your highness." "Then I order one exactly like it, above all in weight. The statuettes which ornament that service are exquisitely moulded.
"You will be irretrievably ruined if you do not furnish it," laughed Potemkin, while he went on throwing his balls and catching them "If those two services are not here on the day you take a journey to Siberia, friend Artankopf." "I will be punctual, your highness," sighed the jeweller. "But the payment I must buy the gold." "The payment!
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