“No,” answered Clay, “we didn’t know that.”
“I never knew there was that much money in Chicago!” put in Jule.
“But you didn’t answer my question.”
“I found the diamonds on the ground,” Clay replied, not referring to the way they came there, “and saw the advertisement in an evening newspaper. That’s all.”
“Where did you get the newspaper?”
There was a twinkle in the lawyer’s eyes, as if he, too, had a secret that was hard to keep.
“Why,” Clay answered, “why——”
He turned to Jule with a puzzled look on his face.
“Where do you think that newspaper came from?” he asked, puzzled, too.
Jule shook his head, looking from the lawyer to the brown leather bag, now empty, the gems being in the lawyer’s hand.