There are only five of them in the world, they are precisely alike, and they are yours.

I beg of you to accept them with my compliments." Mr.Schultze tilted his chair back a little, the better to study the young man's countenance.
"I am going to make some remarkable statements," the young man continued, "but each of those statements is capable of demonstration here and now.

Don't hesitate to interrupt if there is a question in your mind, because everything I shall say is vital to each of you as bearing on the utter destruction of the world's traffic in diamonds.
It is coming, gentlemen, it is coming, just as inevitably as that night follows day, unless you stop it.

You _can_ stop it by concerted action, in a manner which I shall explain later." He paused and glanced along the table.

Only the face of Mr.Czenki was impassive.
"Since the opening of the fields in South Africa," Mr.Wynne resumed quietly, "something like five hundred million dollars' worth of diamonds have been found there; and we'll say arbitrarily that all the other diamond fields of the world, including Brazil and Australia, have produced another five hundred million dollars' worth -- in other words, since about 1868 a billion dollars' worth of diamonds has been placed upon the market.