The Denison review., 1898-08-19

he never forgave an injury, great or
small, and he had not yet forgiven Tom
Burrows, for it is notoriously difficult
thing to forgive those whom we have
injured without just cause.
1t will be necessary here to explain
that during Tom Burrows absence from
Kimberley the hnalgamation had taken
place. The great De Beers corporation
now governed the fields with irresistible
sway, and the last and most drastic of
the diamond laws had been passed.
This was Of course perfectly we'll known
to Messrs. Grunstein and Macadam, if
not to the discoyerer of the New Golcon-
da, and the result of about half an
hours interview between them and Of
certain immediate subsequent informa-
tion conveyed to Inspector Lipinski of
the detective department was an official
visit to the house of Miss Carnegie's
father, where Mr.. Tom Burrows was
discovered in the act of showing such
collection of rough diamonds to his
sweetheart and her now smiling parents
[tas had never been seen in Griqualand
West before.
In the course of the exciting and
somewhat painful scene which followed
the owner of the diamonds absolutely
refused to give any satisfactory account
Of their possession and strenuously in
sisted on his hosts keeping the pledge
they had given, and holding their
tongues-upon which the inspector and
his men did their obvious duty under
the circumstances, seized the diamonds
walked Master Tom off to prison and
warned the Carnegies-father, mother
and daughter-that they would have to
appear the next morning at the police
court as witnesses and that any attempt
| at f1ight would be both useless and dis
astrous.
When his case came on the next day,
Tom was amazed, and Miss Lucy and
her parents were not a little dismayed,
at the formidable array of evidence that
was given in support Of the charge of
illicit dealing and unlawful possession.
The accused obstinately held his tongue,
and they had bound themselves by a
| solemn promise to do likewise There
was, therefore, no evidence for the de-
| fense beyond the bald and unsupported
statement that the diamonds in question
had not come out of any mine in Gri-
qualand West or within the jurisdiction
of the Cape government.
| But, on the other hand, Mr.. Grun-
stein and his friend, Tom S fellow trav-
eler from Port Elizabeth, deliberately
swore, the one that Thomas Burrows
had had Illicit dealings with certain
Kaffirs employed in the mines, and the
other that he had taken very valuable
parcel Of rough stones from Cape Town
to Port Elizabeth and there disposed of
some Of them at the usual prices asked
by illicit traffickers. This evidence was
supported by that Of three converted"
Kaffirs, who could usually be bought on
the fields for such nefarious purposes,
| to the effect that they had seen certain
Of these very stones. purchased by Pol
ish Jew who had Since fled the coun-
try.
| The theory of the prosecution, there
fore, was that the accused had all along
been engaged in the illicit traffic, and
that his departure into the Wilderness
and his absence from the fields were
merely parts Of an elaborate scheme for
, obtaining credence to a cock and bull
story that was merely fi1nsy covering
for illicit dealings on gigantic scale.
1t was pretty flimsy theory, certain
ly, but the prosecuting counsel made
tho most Of it, and there was not
shred of evidence to contradict it, SO the
case was sent for tri:l to the special