“I don’t know,” he said. “You found it on the boat, I take it.”
“Someone must have placed it there,” said the lawyer.
“It was marked,” Clay explained, “with a finger pointing to the advertisement. Now, what do you think of that? Why——”
“Then someone put it there,” Jule declared. “Someone who wanted us to get the reward! I’ll bet it was Captain Joe.”
“Or Dr. Holcomb,” Clay continued.
“Very strange proceeding!” insisted the lawyer. “If anyone knew where the diamonds were, and saw fit to throw away $500, he might have done that, but did this Captain Joe you speak of, or this Dr. Holcomb, know that you had the stones?”
“Of course not!” answered Jule. “No one knew.”
“When were the diamonds stolen?” asked Clay.
“Early yesterday morning, though the loss was not reported then.”
“Who stole them?” was the next question.