The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-24

curious result disclosed itself. Strange
to say, each of the three diamonds Civ
EN- to the three diamond kings turned
out to be a most inferior and Valueless
stone; while each of the three entrusted
to the care of the scientific investigat-
Ors turned out to be a fine gem of the
purest quality.
1 confess it was a sufficiently suspi-
ciOuS conjunction. The three represent
tatives of the diamond interest gaZed
at each other with inquiring side
glances. Then their eyes fell suddenly;
they avoided one another. Had each in
dependenty substituted a weak and in
feriOr natural stone for, Professor
Schleiermacher's manufactured peb-
bles? 1t almost seemed so. For mo-
ment, l admit, / was half inclined to
suppose it. But next second / changed
my mind Could a man of Sir Charles
Vandrifts integrity and high principle
stoop for lucres sake to so mean an
eXpedient?-nOt TO mention the fact
that even if ne did, and if Mosenheimer
did likewise, the stones submitted to
the scientific men would have amply
sufficed to establish the reality and sue
cess of the experiments
Still, 1 must say, Charles looked
guiltily across at MOsenheimer, and
Mosenheimer at PhipsOn. while three
more uncomfortable or unhappy faced
men could hardly have been found at
that precise minute in the city of West.
minister.
Then Sir AdOlphus spOke-Or, rather,
he GRATED. He said, in his loud and
grating voice we had that evening. and
on previous evening, been present at
the conception and birth Of an epoch
in the history of science. Professor
n Of
of whom his native Saxony might well
be proud, while as a BritOn he must
say he regretted somewhat that this
discovery ike so many others, should
have been made in Germany" How
ever, Professor SchIeiermacher was a
specimen of that noble type Of scien-
tif1c men to whom gold was merely the
rare metal Au, and diamonds merely
the element G in the scarcest of its
manifold allOtropic embOdiments. The
professor did not seek TO make money
out of his discovery. He rose above
the sOrdtd greed of capitalists. Content
with the glory of having traced the
element G to its crystalline origin ne
asked no more than the approval Of
science. However, out of Difference to
the wishes of those financial gentle
men who were oddly concerned in main
tanning the present price Of in its
diamond Interestingly had arranged
that the secret should be strictly
guarded and kept for the present: not
one of the few persons admitted to the
experiments would publicly divulge the
truth about them. This secrecy would
be maintained till he himself and a
small committee of the Royal society
should have time to investigate and
verify for themselves the professors
beautiful and ingenious process-an in
vestiga ton and Verification which the
learned professor himself both desired
and suggested. Schleiermacher nodded
apprOvaD. When that was done, if the
process stood the test, further conceal
ment would be absolutely futile The
price of diamonds must fall at once be
low that of paste, and any protest on
the part of the financial world would.
of course. be useless. The laws Of ma
ture were superior 10 milliOnaires.
Meanwhile. in Difference to the opinion
of Sir Charles Vandrift, whose ac-
quaintance with that fascinating side
of the subject nobody could deny, they
had consented to send no notices TO the
press and to abstain from saying any
thing about this beautiful and simple
process In public. He dwelt with hor-
rid gustO on that epithet beautiful"
And now, in the name of British miner
alOgy, he must congratulate Professor
Schleiemached, our distinguished guest,
on his truly brilliant and crystalline
contributions to our knowledge of bril-
liant and of crystalline science.
Everybody applauded. It was an
awkward moment! Sir Charles bit his
lip. MOsenheimer looked glum. Young
Phipson dropped an expression which
1 will not tTanscribe. q understand
this work may circulate among fami-
lies) And, after a solemn promise Of
deathlike secrecy, the meeting separat-
ed.
I noticed that nay brOther-in-Iaw
somewhat ostentatiously avoided Mo-
senheimeT at the door, and that Phip-
son Jumped quickly into his own car
riage.
"Home." cried Charles gIoomily to
the coachman as we took our seats in
the brOugham. And all the way to
Mayfair he leaned back in his seat,
with his close set lips never uttering
a syllable.
Before we retired to rest, however, in
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