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None of the others confirm, although they do not contradict him. Do you know anything about him?" "Only villainy in another way. Ho led away a nice girl of this parish, an industrious mussel-gatherer. And he then had a wife and large family of his own, of which the poor thing knew nothing. Cadman is very shy of Flamborough now. By-the-way, have you called upon poor Widow Carroway?"
"Father said it was no good," he repeated, a little less certainly; "but I don' know." He held out his hand and passed the pearl to the mussel-gatherer, who glanced at it hastily. "Mr. Dare!" he said excitedly. Colin looked up and caught his glance, then tried to take the stone.
But his hand shook as though he were in a violent fever, and the mussel-gatherer placed it on the table beside his own, in front of the boy. Clear, flawless, and of fair size, it gleamed like a star of hope before them all. A moment's examination was enough. Leaping from his seat Colin seized the pearl and rushed out of the door. "It's real, sir; it's real!" he cried. "And will do all you said!"
The mussel-gatherer recognized instantly the farmer's son. "What is it, John?" he asked. "I was goin' over some shells father hadn' opened, after he'd found that other pearl, an' I got this! Father he says the other one's no good an' that this isn' likely to be any better! But I don' know! It looks all right!" He glanced down at the object in his hand.
Though many persons must have lost their lives the records are incomplete in this respect; but there is a curious document in the mosque at Sfax touching the effect of the Lavender Ray. It appears that an Arab mussel-gatherer was in a small boat with his two brothers at the time the Ring appeared above the mountains.
His host, the mussel-gatherer, whose stone he had been examining, noticed this, but the newcomer was boisterous in his joy. He babbled of the wealth that was his, until if the stone had been a diamond of equal size, it would not have sufficed to have financed his dreams. But the boy with the instruments on the table before him, said not a word of congratulation or delight.
No wonder every inch of the rock is disputed; there are so many now in the world who have sipped all the pleasures the city has to give. Masters of the art of entering a drawing-room, the Parisians crowd seaward to get the sure foot of the mussel-gatherer upon the slimy granite of a bluff Norman headland; they bring their taste with them, and they get heartiness in the bracing air.
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