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"I? What an idea! I, who aood advice"

"What is it?"

"To leave behind you the diaet into trouble You will ruin both yourself and me by your folly"

"How so?" said Andrea

"How? You put on a livery, you disguise yourself as a servant, and yet keep a diaer worth four or five thousand francs"

"You guess well"

"I know so of diamonds; I have had some"

"You do well to boast of it," said Andrea, ithout becory, as Caderousse feared, at this new extortion, quietly resigned the ring Caderousse looked so closely at it that Andrea well knew that he was exaes were perfect

"It is a false dia now," replied Andrea

"Do not be angry, we can try it" Caderousse went to the , touched the glass with it, and found it would cut

"Confiteor," said Caderousse, putting the diaer; "I was mistaken; but those thieves of jewellers ier worth while to rob a jeweller's shop--it is another branch of industry paralyzed"

"Have you finished?" said Andrea,--"do you want anything more?--will you have un"

"No; you are, after all, a good companion; I will not detain you, and will try to curedoes not happen to you in selling the diaold"