"Well, it's easy to tell," Allen said. "There's a jeweler in town. He probably doesn't handle many diamonds, but he ought to be able to tell a real one from a false. Let's take one of the smaller stones and ask him what he thinks."
"Oh, yes, let's find out—and as soon as we can!" cried Grace. "Isn't it just—delicious!"
"Delicious!" scoffed Will. "You'd think she was speaking of—chocolates!"
CHAPTER XIV
SEEKING CLUES
The first shock of the discovery over (and it was a shock to them all, boys included), the young folks began to examine the stones more calmly. They spoke of them as diamonds, and hoped they would prove to be stones of value, and not mere imitations.
There were several of fairly large size, and others much smaller; some, according to Allen, of only a sixteenth-karat in weight.
"But stones of even that small size may be very valuable if they are pure and well cut," he said.
"And what would be the value of the largest ones?" asked Betty, for there were one or two stones that Will was sure were three or four karats in size.