The Diamond Master

ox into an inside pocket. It had occurred to him that Schultze-Gustave Schultze, the greate

on Fifth Avenue in deep abstraction, with perplexed wrinkles about his blue eyes. The German glan

vited explosively. "I haf yust send

nt in the German's voice, but at the mo

other half-dozen men in the United States," he interrupted. "I have something her

then one fat hand darted toward it, and he spilled the diamond out on the napkin in his plate. T

lifted the stone and squinted through it toward the light, with critical ey

eried impatie

with his characteristic, whimsical philosophy. "I haf der dup

box, identical with that which Mr. Latham had ju

Laadham

ounterpart of the mysterious diamond which s

y. "Id came by der mail in dis morning-yust like das, wrapped

d, and with his left took the other from the German's hand. Then, side by side

Dweedledee, born of der same mudder und fadder. Laadham, id iss der m

ere was an odd, uncertain note in his voi

ets, und id iss perfect. Und I take my own judgment of a

the w

arads. Dere iss nod more as a differ

eadily, the while he fought back an

, Schultze. Their weig

Teutonic sigh, replaced the diamond from Mr. Latham's right hand in one of the glazed boxes and carefull

r had been sent to me by some careless fool for setting, perhaps, and that a letter would follow it. I merely brought it here on the chance that it was one of your impo

ders and thoughtfully flicked the as

vas a stone of so bigness in der Unided States whose owner I didn't know id vas. Dose dat are here I haf bring in myself

leted a scant lu

purpose; obviously we will, in time, hear from the person who sent them; obviously they were intended to be perfectly matched; so let's see if they

utside pocket, and together they went to his office. Mr. Czenki appea

xamined for me this morni

into his hand and scrut

eplied afte

certain?" Mr. L

tioningly for an instant, after which he walked over to a window and adjus

stone," he anno

Laadham, when Czenki

uddenly. "Show hi

t. The expert stared incredulously at the two perfect stones and finally, placing them side by side on a sheet of paper, returned to the windo

last, "you would not venture to say which of those

enki curtly, "not wi

weight is

ght is the same there is not the minutes