These studs--all of 'em--are parts
of six sets of similar things, all made of that very expensive metal,
platinum, in precisely the same fashion, and ornamented with the same
specially invented device, and given to six men who had been of assistance
to him in a big deal, as a little mark of his appreciation, by a man that
some few years ago made a fortune in South Africa. That's so!"
Zillah turned on the American with a sharp look of enquiry.
"Who was he?" she demanded. "Tell us his name!"
"His name," replied Guyler, "was Spencer Levendale--dealer in diamonds."
CHAPTER NINETEEN
PURDIE STANDS FIRM
The effect produced by this announcement was evidently exactly that which
the American expected, and he smiled, a little grimly, as he looked from
one face to another. As for his hearers, they first looked at each other
and then at him, and Guyler laughed and went on.
"That makes you jump!" he said. "Well, now, at the end of that inquest
business in the papers the other day I noticed Spencer Levendale's name
mentioned in connection with some old book that was left, or found in Mr.
Daniel Multenius's back-parlour.
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