"Why, the contents of that one little drawer of brilliants could not be bought for the sum which you name.

I have a memo.

here of what I have expended up to date on my collection, though I have agents at work who will probably make very considerable additions to it within the next few weeks.

As matters stand, however, I have spent--let me see-pearls one forty thousand; emeralds, seven fifty; rubies, eight forty; brilliants, nine twenty; onyxes--I have several very nice onyxes-two thirty.

Other gems, carbuncles, agates--hum! Yes, it figures out at just over four million seven hundred and forty thousand.