"Hardly millions," spoke Allen, "but if they are really diamonds they will run well up into the thousands."
"But are they really diamonds?" asked Betty.
"As I said, I'm no expert," Allen repeated, "but a jeweler once told me several ways of testing diamonds, and these answer to all those tests. Of course it wouldn't be safe to take my word. We should have a jeweler look at these right away."
"I knew I had seen paper like that before," Will said. "It's just the kind you see loose diamonds displayed in around holiday times in jewelers' windows."
"That doesn't make these diamonds, just because they are in the proper kind of paper," scoffed Roy. "I think they're only moonstones."
"Moonstones aren't that color at all," declared Henry. "They are sort of a smoky shade."
"I guess Roy means rhinestones," said Amy, with a smile.
"That's it," he agreed. "They're only fakes. Who would leave a lot of diamonds like that in a box in the sand?"
"No one would leave them there purposely, to lose them," said Allen. "But I think we've stumbled on a bigger mystery here than we dreamed of. I am sure these are diamonds!"
"I—I'm afraid to hope so," said Betty, with a little laugh.