[The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Diamond Master CHAPTER XVII 6/28
Of course the furnace, the two projectiles and the connecting electric wires are all destroyed at each charge, which brings the total cost of the operation to a little more than eight hundred dollars, including nearly three tons of brown sugar. The diamond resulting is worth at least a million when broken up for cutting, sometimes even two millions.
That is all, I think." There was a long, awed silence.
Mr.Latham, leaning against the giant cube, stared thoughtfully at his toes; Mr.Schultze was peering curiously about him, thence off into the gloom; Mr.Czenki still had a question. "I understand that all the diamonds were made in that disk-like shape," he remarked at last.
"Then the uncut stones that were stolen were--" "They were natural stones," interrupted Mr.Wynne, "imported for purposes of study and experiment.
I told Chief Arkwright the truth, but not all of it.
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