"Why, it's a diamond!"
The Senior Partner rose and moved toward him. "Are you sure?"
But Mr. Bressani did not reply. Lost in wonder, apparently unconscious of his surroundings, he turned the object over and over, in every light, and at every angle. "Extraordinary!" he murmured. "Extraordinary! It doesn't seem possible."
"But are you sure?" repeated the Senior Partner.
"Absolutely."
"But who ever saw such a diamond?"
"Nobody! Nobody! It's incredible—miraculous—inconceivable. There never was such a thing!"
"Just what I have been saying," from the Senior Partner. "Nobody would ever cut a diamond in that shape. And look at the size of it! And the color!"
"Yes, yes! It's hard to believe!"
"But you do believe it?"