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He busied himself for several years in collecting the most valuable diamonds circulating in commerce, and thus composed a necklace of several rows, whose attractions, he hoped, would be irresistible to the queen. In the purchase of these brilliant gems, the jeweler had expended far more than his own fortune.
That was before I heard you yelling, and saw you coming, and then I joined in the chase. I guess the man you were after got away, Track." "He did," asserted Tom. "He came back here, a little while ago, and he ran away just now, as he heard you coming." "Where did he go?" asked the jeweler, eagerly. "I don't know," answered Tom. "Only you've got the wrong lad here."
The jeweler had a talk with me and told my mother he thought he could make quite a mechanic out of me. I thought I was destined to stay with him, until my mother happened to leave the store for a few minutes, when he asked me if I thought I would like the business. I told him no, I knew I would dislike it.
He said the day we went out for a drive a strange gentleman stepped up to him and asked what that man's name was, and what he was doing with such a team. My friend answered, "Why, that is Johnston, the wholesale jeweler, and he owns that team." "Wholesale nothing!" was the reply.
The jeweler had no gold watches; but, after a two hours' search, he dug up a wholesaler's catalogue, and, with this in his pocket, Quinbey returned to have Minnie select a watch from it; but she, her trunks, and her belongings were gone, while a note on the table apprised him that she would live with no man who called her a cat.
The bag was still half full of the strange gems, some of them glowing like miniature lamps in the dark depths, and he made no effort to appraise them. He knew that once any competent jeweler had compared their cold, hard, scintillating beauty with that of any Earthly gems, he could demand his own price. "At last," he breathed to himself, "I will be what I have always longed to be a money power.
"As for diamonds, I have them in numbers; rings, necklaces, sprigs, earrings, clasps. Tell me their value, M. Faucheux." The jeweler took his magnifying-glass and scales, weighed and inspected them, and silently made his calculations. "These stones," he said, "must have cost your ladyship an income of forty thousand francs." "You value them at eight hundred thousand francs?" "Nearly so."
"No jeweler will give you more than three or four dollars for it possibly five." "Well?" "I will give you ten dollars for that ring." "It is useless for you to offer me money for it, as I do not intend to sell it." Frank turned as if he would move away, but he felt a hand clutch his shoulder with a grasp of iron, while the voice of the stranger almost snarled: "Don't be a fool, boy!
This angered the jeweler, and he punished his nephew severely for his misconduct. A pleasant position on a farm was secured for the man called Dan, who promised to lead an honest life in the future. As to Ned, the homeless lad felt that the greatest happiness in the world had come into his life. The lawyer, Grimm, had been frightened into telling all about Brady's plot.
Kronborg seemed to notice nothing, and changed the trend of the conversation, telling Thea that Dr. Archie and Mr. Upping, the jeweler, were both coming in to see her that evening, and that she had asked Spanish Johnny to come, because he had behaved well all winter and ought to be encouraged.
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