CARRIAGE TRADE: The Big Gem Mystery

The great international jewel mystery started with a society-column item in the New York Mirror. All Paris was agog at word about a "titled international couple who had a little jewelry trouble lately. It seems that two years ago when the gentleman married his beautiful lady, he bought from an American jeweler of excellent reputation a magnificent pair of canary diamond earrings and four black pearls— of unparalleled size and beauty. This summer the lady noticed the pearls were fading. She took them to several Paris jewelers." Their unanimous verdict was that the pearls had been dyed. Then the diamonds...

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