Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 801, February 4, 1921

clerk who waited on him showed him a tray full of choice gems from two carats up to five. The customer looked them over carefully, made several selections, but the price was always too high for h

yed clerk noticed that a five-cara

k. "You forgot to return one of

y handled one of them at a time and after looking i

counter which summoned the manager of the store. The customer waxed indignant and protested

ch me, but I think it's a

l his pockets, and looked him over for a secret pocket,

eyesight is defective. I don't believe there is a diamond

y rate, he knew there was no place there where a diamond could be lodged even temporarily. The clerk looked over the floor on the outside of the counter, but without result, so he felt sure that the customer had managed to get away with it somehow. In about half an hour a lady entered the store and went to the same counter. She wanted to look at some new style rings. While the clerk was producing a couple of trays, Dick, who was close by, saw her place her hand under the bottom ledge of

st pocket, then the couple walked away. The meeting of these two persons struck Dick as having a suspicious bearing on the missing diamond, though just what the connection was he could not say. He looked at the place where he had seen the man toss what the wom

y, but of one thing he was confident, and that was that the missing diamond was now in the man's pocket. Under such circumstances he believed that it was his duty to follow the pair. The couple turned into Nassau street and walked leisurely northward. Dick kept on behind them in a rather doubtful frame of mind. They kep

wn that diamond," thought Dick.

lic room. He found them standing before t

diamond?" asked the man, taking the unset stone ou

e, and on the spur of the moment Dick glided to the coun

a stolen diamond," he said, stepping back defiantly,

ifled exclamation a

t diamond!"

policeman to settle this mat

nd for an officer?" t

ess without a cop butting into

ck. "I accuse this man of stealing the

all me a thief!

at you are," answe

was highly undesirable in the pawnshop, the clerk decided to telephone for a policeman to come and straighten things out, since neither Dick nor the man showed any signs of giving in. The man himself realized t