“If I had met you last night, I’d have put a big-sized bone in your way.”
“Why, were you onto a good thing?” asked Hare nonchalantly.
“I turned the best trick of my lifetime,” answered Bull proudly.
“How much did it amount to?”
“I haven’t made up a valuation of the stuff yet.”
“It must be considerable, if it’s the best haul you ever made.”
“Are there any jewelers in Philadelphia that have big capital, and would be willing to handle any stuff that might be brought to them?”
“I know one who has paid out as much as fifty thousand dollars for a single lot of diamonds,” said Hare.
Bull Blair’s eyes brightened.
“That is the very chap I want to deal with,” he said.