You told me they numbered ninety-three in all, if I remember aright.

Can you tell me how many there were of each ?" "Forty-eight rubies and forty-five sapphires," he replied without a moment's hesitation.

"The rubies were uncut and of various sizes, ranging perhaps from ten to eighty carats.

They were true rubies, not spinels, remember that.

The sapphires ran from fifteen carats to sixty, and there was not a flaw amongst them." "Has Hayle any knowledge of the value of precious stones ?" "There's not a keener judge in the East.