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The shops and stores had long since been closed, Max Diestricht's among them the old Hollanders' name in painted white letters stood out against the background of a darkened workshop window. In the story above, the lights, too, were out; Max Diestricht was probably fast asleep and he was stone deaf!
It is a foolishness, that" he had a habit of prodding at one with a levelled fore-finger "every night somewhere they are robbed, and have I been robbed? HEIN, tell me that; have I been robbed?" It was true. In ten years, though at times having stones and precious metal aggregating large amounts deposited with him by his customers, Max Diestricht had never lost so much as the gold filings.
His own knowledge of Max Diestricht went deeper than the superficial biography furnished by the newspapers the old Hollander had done more than one piece of exquisite jewelry work for him. The old fellow was a character that beggared description, eccentric to the point of extravagance, and deaf as a post; but, in craftmanship, a modern Cellini.
Furthermore, through personal acquaintance with the "high contracting parties," who were in his own set, he knew it to be true. He shrugged his shoulders. The papers, too, had thrown the limelight on Max Diestricht, who, though for quite a time the fashion in the social world, had, up to the present, been comparatively unknown to the average New Yorker.
". . . Max Diestricht diamonds the Ross-Logan stones wedding sliding panel in wall of workshop end of the room near window ten boards to the right from side wall press small knot in the wood in the centre of the tenth board to-night . . ."
It was Max Diestricht who honoured you by accepting the commission; not you who honoured Max Diestricht by intrusting him with it. "Of what use is it to me, a safe!" he would exclaim. "It hides nothing; it only says, 'I am inside; do not look farther; come and get me! Yes? It is to explode with the nitro-glycerin POUF! and I am deaf and I hear nothing.
There was a queer smile on Jimmie Dale's lips now. The knot in the tenth board was significant! Max Diestricht was scrupulously honest, a genius in originality and conception of design, a master in the perfection and delicacy of his finished work he had been commissioned to design and set the Ross-Logan necklace. The brain works quickly.
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