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He was therefore considerably astonished when his customer asked for a loan of ten pounds on it still more so when the fellow suggested that Pelver should buy it outright for twenty-five. Pelver asked him some questions as to his property in the ring he made some excuses about its having been in his family for some time, and that he would be glad to realize on it.
This fellow, you may be sure, after killing and robbing Ashton, had but one thought how soon he could convert some of the property into cash, so that he could eat. If Pelver had made him that advance, or bought the ring, he'd have made a bee-line for the nearest coffee-shop. I tell you he was mad for food!" "Another thing," said Viner. "Where is the rest of Mr.
"There's no doubt whatever that the ring in question was Ashton's; there's also no doubt that this man did offer it to Pelver this morning. Either the fellow is a fool or singularly ignorant, to do such a mad thing! But he did it! And I know why." "Why, then?" demanded Viner. "Because he was just starving," answered Drillford.
Now, Pelver, who happened to attend to him himself, is a good deal of an expert in diamonds he's a jeweller as well as a pawnbroker, and he saw at once that the diamond in this ring was well worth all of a thousand pounds a gem of the first water!
Under pretence of examining it, Pelver took the ring to another part of his shop and quietly sent for a policeman. And the end was, this officer brought the man here, and Pelver with him, and the ring. Here it is!" He opened a safe and produced a diamond ring at which Viner stared with feelings for which he could scarcely account. "How do you know that's one of Mr. Ashton's rings?" he asked.
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