"Do ve understand you prove him by dese ?" The young man smiled slightly and drew a leather packet from an inner pocket.

He stripped it of several rubber bands, and then turned to Mr.Czenki again.
"Mr.Czenki, I have been told that a few years ago you had an opportunity of examining the Koh-i-noor.

Is that correct ?" "Yes." "I believe the Koh-i-noor was temporarily removed from its setting, and that you were one of three experts to whom was intrusted the task of selecting four stones of the identical coloring to be set alongside it ?" "That is correct," Mr.Czenki agreed.
"You held the Koh-i-noor in your hand, and you would be able to identify it ?" "_I_ would be able to identify it," said Mr.Cawthorne positively.
He had turned at the window quickly; it was the first time he had spoken.

Mr.Wynne walked around the table to Mr.Czenki, and Mr.
Cawthorne approached them.
"Suppose, then, you gentlemen examine this together," suggested Mr.
Wynne.
He lifted a great glittering jewel from the leather packet and held it aloft that all might see.

Then he carefully placed it on the table in front of the experts; the others came to their feet and stood gazing as if fascinated.
"By Jove!" exclaimed Mr.Cawthorne.
For a minute or more the two experts studied the huge diamond--one hundred and six carats and a fraction--beneath their glasses, and finally Mr.Cawthorne picked it up and led the way toward the window.
Mr.Czenki and the German followed him.
"Gentlemen," and Mr.Cawthorne now turned sharply to face the others, "this _is_ the Koh-i-noor! Mr.Czenki didn't mention it, but I was one of the three experts who had opportunity to examine the Koh-i-noor.