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The Diamond Master

CHAPTER XV
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"The people there can satisfy you as to her whereabouts on Saturday ?" Again the chief shrugged his shoulders.
"And remember, please, that the best answer to all that is that Haney had the diamonds!" "It doesn't necessarily follow, Mr.Wynne," said the other steadily, "that she committed the crime with her own hands.

It comes down simply to this: If there were _only_ sixty thousand dollars' worth of diamonds then the one motive which Czenki might have had is eliminated; because Haney had practically fifty thousand dollars' worth of them, and here are some others.

There would have been no share for your expert here.

And again, if there were only sixty thousand dollars' worth of the diamonds you or Miss Kellner would have been the only persons to benefit by this death." "But Haney had those!" protested Mr.Wynne.
"Just what I'm saying," agreed the other complacently.

"Therefore there _were_ more than sixty thousand dollars' worth.


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