Show his diamond vanished Stocks by came home to dinner looking glum when his wife asked him the reason he said 1 I had a diamond atar when I 1 went out this morning I 1 dont see it now do you well a fellow has been calling on mo me for a week about a scheme in my line of business that seemed pretty good he never sat dov don n but walked about as he unfolded his plans nervous sort of chap occasionally he stopped and picked a bit of lint off my coat or peeled one of your precious hairs off my collar ho seemed to see a bit of thread on me half way A ay across the room you find 1 enty of men who have a habit of picking at your clothes like that and I 1 paid no attention to him although it made me nervous this morning ho he buttonholed me on the street close to the office could not coa come in n he lie said fooling around my collar for bits of household material I 1 had brought irom home hom 0 would call again it was not until an hour later that I 1 discovered my diamond pin was aas missing oh I 1 was w s easy for that fellow |