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"With the help of Pylotte, whom they do not know, nor ever heard of. He's a brainy dog, moreover, and crafty enough to blind them." "But what's your scheme for to-night?" demanded Dalton. "After what has happened," replied Kilgore, "it's a safe gamble that the Carters are at this moment watching Venner's house. If they are but wait a bit! First hear my whole plan."
"I will do so, sir." "If you will leave me your city address, or call here again in a few days, I shall have something to report to you." "I will call the day after to-morrow, Detective Carter," said Pylotte, promptly, too cunning to give Nick a fictitious address. "Very well," said Nick. "Call in the evening. And now, Mr.
That conflict of the previous night, the flight of three of the diamond gang, Pylotte left comparatively uninjured in the road, his subsequent disclosures, his extensive knowledge of the diamond-making art, the hints he had imparted, and now this manifest eagerness of Venner to lure his ostensible customers to his suburban house all combined to reveal to Nick's keen mind the shrewd game by which Kilgore was hoping to entrap him.
"By getting him to sell us some diamonds?" "Exactly." "And then proving them to be artificial?" "That's the idea." "Can you get at him in a way to trap him?" "What do you mean?" "He may fight shy of us," suggested Chick, "in case he knows of Pylotte's scrap with the gang last night. He may fear that Pylotte has discovered the fraud, and reported it to the police."
Pylotte ran on ahead, while Kilgore and Matt Stall continued urging the detective across the grounds, making toward the old wooden mansion in which their secret plant was located. It seemed to them the safest place in which to confine Nick, pending the delay in getting hands upon Chick.
"Then you bought a diamond of the man who said his name was John David, did you?" "I bought two, sir," nodded Pylotte. "They appeared like natural and very perfect stones when I first examined them, but after subjecting them to more careful tests, I found them to be the most extraordinary imitations I ever beheld." "Artificial diamonds, were they?" "Yes, artificial.
"By subjecting the substance to the same condition under which the natural diamond was crystallized." "Heat and pressure?" "Precisely," bowed Pylotte. "Attempts to thus manufacture diamonds have frequently been made. A Mr.
Pylotte is too cunning to have betrayed us in any way." This was very true, in fact; but Venner himself had blindly done the betraying. "It doesn't matter, Rufe," Kilgore fiercely added. "We must get them both." "That's my idea." "And it's all the easier to get them one at a time." "Right you are, Dave." "Has he discovered Pylotte?" "Surely not!" "Go back there, then," hissed Kilgore.
"So you are confident that these stones are works of art, rather than of nature, are you?" inquired Nick, who had been carefully examining the gems. "I am absolutely sure of it, Mr. Carter," declared Pylotte. "Have you any idea how such counterfeits can be made?" "Oh, yes." "By what process and means, Mr. Pylotte?" Pylotte hastened to explain. "A natural diamond, Mr.
"I'll go with you when and where you wish. If any man can run down these swindling ruffians, sir, you certainly are the man." "Thanks," said Nick, dryly. "I'll take you home with me for the night." The following morning. The clock in Nick Carter's library was striking nine. Nick and Chick were seated at one side of the table, and Jean Pylotte occupied a chair at the opposite side.
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