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They were a part of the famous Gloria Diamond, found last year at Kimberley, a huge, uncut gem of such value that no single purchaser for it could be found in the world. By a syndicate arrangement Gaffany & Co. had assumed charge of it, and were in the process of making for a customer a bar with four pendants cut from the original, when two of them disappeared.
The two stones that I shall return two weeks from to-day to Gaffany & Co. will be as like the two they have as they are themselves. Ta-ta, Jenkins you can count on your half of that ten thousand as surely as though it is jingled now in your pockets." And with that Raffles Holmes left me to my own devices.
The four were mounted immediately and sent under guard to the purchaser. Gaffany & Co. didn't want to keep them a minute longer than was necessary. But the purchaser is so rich he will never have to sell 'em so, you see, Jenkins, we're as safe as a church." "Your friend Robinstein was a character, Holmes," said I. "Yes," sighed Holmes. "Poor chap he was a great loss to his friends.
They are worth $50,000 apiece, and they must match perfectly the two remaining jewels which Gaffany & Co. have in their safe." "I'll match 'em so closely that their own mother couldn't tell 'em apart," said Holmes, with a chuckle. "Then the report that they are of such rarity of cut and lustre is untrue?" I asked. "It's perfectly true," said Holmes, "but that makes no difference.
"They'd have a fit if they knew I had 'em, only they don't know it." "But how have you concealed the fact from them?" I persisted. "Robinstein made me a pair exactly like them," said Holmes. "The paste ones are now lying in the Gaffany safe, where I saw them placed before leaving the shop to-night." "You're too deep for me, Holmes," said I. "What's the game?"
There may be some of you, however, who have never heard of the mysterious robbery of Gaffany & Co., by which two diamonds of almost matchless purity half of a quartet of these stones pear-shaped and valued at $50,000 each, had disappeared almost as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up.
"No, indeed, they're the real thing," said Raffles Holmes, holding up one of the gems to the light, where it fairly coruscated with brilliance. "These are the other two of the original quartet." "Great Heavens, Holmes do you mean to say that Gaffany & Co. permit you to go about with things like this in your pocket?" I demanded. "Not they," laughed Holmes.
"There's ten thousand dollars for somebody in that job, and you and I might as well have it as any one else." "I'm ready," said I, as well I might be, for all I had to do in the matter was to record the adventure and take my half of the profits no very difficult proceeding in either case. "Good," quoth he. "I'll go to Gaffany & Co. to-morrow and offer my services." "You have a clew?" I asked.
The night's sleep had the desired effect, and with the returning day Holmes's better nature asserted itself. Raffles was subdued, and he returned to Gaffany's to put the finishing touches to his work. "Here's your check, Jenkins," said Raffles Holmes, handing me a draft for $5000. "The gems were found to-day in the water-cooler in the work-room, and Gaffany & Co. paid up like gentlemen."
"I have an idea," he answered. "As for the lost diamonds, I know no more of their whereabouts than you do, but I shall be able beyond all question to restore to Gaffany & Co. two pendants just as good as those they have lost, and if I do that I am entitled to the reward, I fancy, am I not?" "Most certainly," said I. "But where the dickens will you find two such stones?
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