a concealment in the days when de Sanci lived.
In
our enlightened times diamond-swallowing is largely practised by the
thieves who infest the mining regions of South Africa. The police
accordingly are supplied with emetics and purgatives as well as rifles
and ball cartridges. Quite recently a notorious thief was captured and
put under medical treatment. The first day's doctoring produced three
diamonds, the second brought to light eight more, and the third day
gave fourteen ; and after all the debilitated patient triumphantly
declared, "There's plenty more to come, Baas."
It
has been thought advisable to give in detail the story of de Sanci's
valet and the diamond because the adventure is usually attributed to
the diamond which forms the subject of this article. Upon careful
examination it has appeared to us probable that it really happened to
the diamond bought from Dom Antonio and that this diamond was a
distinct stone from the
