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"There is not one stone belonging to the British crown, for instance, which would in any way compare with this." "Not even the Koh-i-noor?" Mr. Latham demanded, surprised. Mr. Czenki shook his head. "Not even the Koh-i-noor. It is larger, that's all a fraction more than one hundred and six carats, but it has neither the coloring nor the cutting of this." There was a pause.
Wynne began without hesitation, "the diamonds were worth only about sixty thousand dollars, and Mr. Czenki here draws a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars a year. The proportion is wrong, you see. Again, Mr. Czenki is a man of unquestioned integrity.
Respectfully, They were on hand promptly, all of them Mr. Latham, Mr. Schultze, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Stoddard and Mr. Harris. The experts agreed upon were the unemotional Mr. Czenki, Mr. Cawthorne, an Englishman in the employ of Solomon, Berger and Company, and Mr. Schultze, who gravely admitted that he was the first expert in the land, after Mr.
Czenki's thin fist was clenched under his employer's nose, and the jeweler drew back a little, vaguely alarmed. "I don't understand what " he began. "The diamonds!" Mr. Czenki interrupted, and the long pent-up excitement within him burst into a flame of impatience. "The diamonds! He makes them! Don't you see? Diamonds! He manufactures them!" "Gott in Himmel!" exclaimed Mr.
"There is no one, except his granddaughter, Doris." Some change, sudden as it was pronounced, came over the chief, and his whole attitude altered. He dropped into a chair near the door. "Have a seat, Mr. Wynne," he invited courteously, "and let's understand this thing clearly. Over there, please," and he indicated a chair partly facing that in which Mr. Czenki sat. Mr. Wynne sat down.
He paused a moment. "We know that he has millions and millions of dollars' worth of them we know because we saw them and who can tell how many billions more there are? The one man holds in his hand the power to overturn the money values of the earth!" "But how do you know he makes them?" demanded Mr. Latham, returning to the main question. "He suggested it by his question," Mr. Czenki went on.
"Vere else in der United States haf diamonds been found, Czenki?" "In California, in North Carolina, and in Hall County, Georgia," replied the expert readily.
"So your disappearance Friday night, and your absence all day yesterday did have to do with this old man's death?" said the chief, directly accusing him. "I have nothing to say," murmured Mr. Czenki. "That settles it, gentlemen," declared the chief with an air of finality. "Czenki, I charge you with the murder of Mr. Kellner here. Anything you may say will be used against you.
Twenty-eight large wires are necessary to bring it; I own the power-plant, ostensibly for the operation of a small sugar refinery. I may add that the furnace is a variation of the principle employed by Professor Moissan, in Paris." He turned to Mr. Czenki. "You may remember having heard me mention him?" "I remember," the expert acquiesced grimly.
In other words," he continued without hesitation, "I should say, speaking as an expert, that it is the most perfect diamond existing in the world to-day." Mr. Latham had been staring at him mutely, and he still sat silent for an instant after Mr. Czenki had finished. "And its value?" he asked at last. "Its value!" Mr. Czenki repeated musingly. "You know, Mr.
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