The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-08-12

forearmed. Now about this letter,
holding up Ezra's.
I "'My friend Ezra says you car
afford to pay the money for this
wonderful stone; and 1 dare say yoU
can easily give a check for the sum
But the fact is, the amount must b.
paid in gold, and in no other way.
81 can arrange this for you
through my people; and as 1 have
Ezra's guaranty, will take your check
on Paris, or Vienna, or London, a;
it may suit you best. The Pachs
has agreed to pay me a commission
on the sale; so that is settled, and
you have nothing to thank me for
The great thing is the risk in your
getting the stone out of the country
for if you were known to have il
about you, you run a good chance
of being murdered, leaving alone
the probability of the government
either confscating it or fning you
to some outrageous extent. How
ever you must trust to your good
fortune; and now I will tell you
about this gem. The Pacha is Of q
very old Turcoman family, who have
intermarried in olden times with one
of the Mogul princes of India, and
it is through them this stone came
into his possession. Tradition says
that it is the smaller half of the Koh-
moor, which was broken in two
when it was first found at Golconda.
There is a short inscription in Per
sian on it; but what the words are /
know not 1t is as long and thick
as the first joint Of your thumb, is
quite uncut, and is jagged at one
end where there seems to be a flaw.
This you must look to. Ifit is only
a retraction of light from a rough
Loint it does not matter, but you
are doubtless an expert, and must
Judge for yourself. Ifyou will come
back in two days, l will arrange for
you to see the stone, and will also
quietly see how much gold l can col
lect among my brethren
"Bogle thanked the old man, took
his leave and at the end of two days
was punctual to his appointment.
"Beniamin received him kindly,
and said, AL goes well. l have ar
ranged for you to see the stone thus
You will be taken by a Kuwass of
the Pacha's, whom you will meet in
the suburbs, on horseback into the
country. At night you will return
to the Pacha's palace in the outskirts
of tue town; and if you approve OF
the stone, you will have to remain
there till the bargain is concluded,
as the Pacha swears he will have no
going backwards and forwards to
your hotel, for fear of your visits
being found out If you approve, I
will bring the money to YOU
"This was settled, and on the E.
ventful evening Boyle met the Pa
cha's servant, who had led horse
with him, rode out half a dozen
miles, and then back again. He was
then ushered into a courtyard,
thence into a long stone verandah,
up fight of stairs, through a door
way closed by heavy curtains, into a
room handsomely carpeted and
cushioned, and told to sit down.
"In about half an hour, during
which the silence and mysteriousness
of the affair began to tell on Bogle's
pulsation, one of the eunuchs-a ne
gro ofcourse- came in and beckoned
him to follow. Another curtained
room or two brought them into a
small one meanly furnished, in which
sat, on a few cushions in one corner
an old woman. The eunuch salut-
ed and left,
"'You speak French?' the woman
said.
eyes" said Boyle, mot very
we'll"
al am the Pacha's wife's atten-
dant," she said; sand as 1 speak
French 1 am deputed to show you
something"
"Out of a muslin rag she took the
diamond. 1t Uas q monster! There
we're two or three good lamps in the
room, and Boyle, after a long and
careful examination, and trial in his
scales, found it was perhaps the fifth
argest known diamond in the world,
and of undoubted good water, al
though it was in quite a rough state.
"There were some chances, of
of it not proving eventually
that is, after being cut-of the
first water; but Boyle knew, from
what Benjamin had said, that he
would get it cheap, and that the great
,isk wa, not so much as to its quail
~, but in getting it out of the coun-
,ry without its being confscated.
What will you giveY the slave
girl asked.
How much do you want? said
3ogle.
@'This stone is one ofthe wonders !
# the world, said the girl. 1T came
rom India, and has been in my mas
er's family for a dozen generations. !
Although of fabulous worth, we will |
axe 100000 for it.
"Bogle had been prepared for hag-
ding, but this was a staggerer, and |
.fter a great deal of talk he offered |
c5, 5,OOO,which the girl said she would .
eport in the proper quarter. "In
he mean time" she said, "you will
leep here and in the morning mat
ers can be concluded"
"Bogle was taken by the eunuch
7ho had shown him into the palace
o a room fitted up in the Frank
ashton, and there he passed troubled
light.
"In the morning his terms were
ccepted and a message being sent |
D his &ANfriend, he duly came with
be mi 9pe} and it was counted over.
low came the difficulty of dealing
nth the diamond. 1t was not safe
D carry it about ones person, nor
afe in the hotel; in fact, safe now
ere. At last Benjamin advised i
'ogle to make up two packets eX-
city alike; one containing the dia-
lond, another containing nothing;
he former to be sent to Bogle's
lends in Paris, the latter to be
Oddly carried by him to the hotel,
nd deposited there for safety with
le landlord.
''Bogle accordingly made up the
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