We should have a second agent at the Cape diamond fields, and he would lay our money out by buying in all that he could while the panic lasted.

Then, the original scare having proved to be all a mistake, the prices naturally go up once more, and we get a long figure for all that we hold.

That's what I mean by making 'a corner in diamonds.' There is no room in it for any miscalculation.

It is as certain as a proposition of Euclid, and as easily worked out." "It sounds very nice," his son remarked thoughtfully.

"I'm not so sure about its working, though." "It must work well.