It is a foolishness, that"-- he had a habit of prodding at one with a levelled fore-finger--"every night somewhere they are robbed, and have I been robbed?
HEIN, tell me that; have I been robbed ?" It was true.

In ten years, though at times having stones and precious metal aggregating large amounts deposited with him by his customers, Max Diestricht had never lost so much as the gold filings.

There was a queer smile on Jimmie Dale's lips now.

The knot in the tenth board was significant! Max Diestricht was scrupulously honest, a genius in originality and conception of design, a master in the perfection and delicacy of his finished work--he had been commissioned to design and set the Ross-Logan necklace.
The brain works quickly.

All this and more had flashed almost instantaneously through Jimmie Dale's mind.