"It's finesse, my boy, commercial finesse.

Who's to trace it, I should like to know.
I haven't worked out all the details--I want your co-operation over that--but here's a rough sketch of my plan.

We send a man we can depend upon to some distant part of the world--Chimborazo, for example, or the Ural Mountains.

It doesn't matter where, as long as it is out of the way.

On arriving at this place our agent starts a report that he has discovered a diamond mine.