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Show Tras4S(ery of a JlhmwJ. "Therestlie mt beautiful diamond dia-mond I have ever seen during au esperienceof thiity years with the iarUlng gen," said a veteran diamond mtn haut, as lie held up a stone that -itraeii to live in tire. Fran every fa et radiated brilliant ulnrs, al the hue of tlie stone a tliat steely blue whh-h iclightsever eonnoieur ut the piet-i'jus gem-. The diamond did n t wtigii ovtr six carats, tmt tt was easily worll So ihM. - Tnat stone has a trash- history ," continued tbe man of jiwib as In laid tlie uititnoitd to rw amid a lies! of snowy cotton. "It comes fnmi the Ie Beers mines, in South At-rit-a, and was u -vered by a t nolle emptojeii by the C nupiny. IIi-prattii'a!eeiwtlLit IIi-prattii'a!eeiwtlLit thegm wai a uvarvelkiu- ou for liauty of toh-r, and a desire to Heal It overcame linn. Well, h-did steal it, and to conctal tae diamond about his person for tlie cuoliea woik almist nakoi in the dinmond mines cut a hole in his flesh under the. arm. But the wound did not heal, and the observant ee of the foreman saw wiiat was the matter. A few dav atir he charged tiie coohe with having stolen a dfimond. Imt tin negro denied it. -When Jack, tlie rent in. rt-tchi-i for in sore arm the thi) f made a tlsh mid ran toward to-ward the outskirts ,f thecamp like a ' deer. The foreman folkmedhir-i but the tieet-foote-t uenjiairstrlpisi! i him. H knew that n evere fsiuish- oi -nt .a eti him if caiAun-d. aui cent-retl all his efforts en getting away with tbe stone, whose vt.'in woust hav.-niii't iiim rith fur life. But Jai k m eiju d to the emergency, emergen-cy, and drawing hLs pistol (J.otUit r coolie throuifh the li k jot as hi wastakingtotuehllar. IIhdejdbo.lv was dnaeii lack Into tamp, lifc arm cut open and this beautiful gt m iu the rough was taken from the in.-.erkui. If a tragic story, last true as pe-il, and only a eampk of wliat has h-tppeaed uiore than a hundred times in the diamond mines of South Africa.' IMadtt phta Inyuirtr. |