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Perl this tiirl's school outside of London She and Charles ree, and they returned to the island, where they directed theoperations in the dorland and opened the House of Dorsett in partnership with a Jewish diamond merchant from Aberdeen by the name of Levi Strouser The London end of the business, which dealt in the cutting and sale of diaant offices on the upper floors for larger wholesale trading and a vast workshop in the basement, where the stones from Gladiator Island were cut and polished The dynasty prospered, helped in no small measure by the fact that the diamonds that came out of the island pipes were a very rare violet-rose color and of the highest quality"

"The mines have never played out?"

"Not yet The Dorsetts have been very shrewd in holding back much of their production in cooperation with the cartel to hold up the price"

"What about offspring?" asked Pitt

"Charles and Mary had one boy, Anson Jess Junior never married"

"Anson was Arthur's grandfather?" Pitt asked

"Yes, he ran the company for over forty years He was probably the most decent and honest of the lot Anson was satisfied to run and reed like his descendants, he gave a great deal of hout Australia and New Zealand were founded by him When lie died in 1910, he left the co in a boating accident She fell overboard during a cruise on the family yacht and was taken by sharks Rumors circulated that she was ations were made Henry's money n of greed, jealousy, cruelty and ravenous power that continues to this day"

"I recall reading an article about hieles Times," said Pitt "They compared Sir Henry Dorsett to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer of De Beers"

"Neither was exactly what you'd call a saint Oppenheimer climbed over a multitude of obstacles to build an empire that reaches out to every continent and has diversified holdings in automobiles, paper and explosives old, uraniuth, however, still lies with diaulates the market fro, on the other hand, res in a nuemstone mines-rubies in Burma, emeralds in Colombia, sapphires from Ceylon -the family never really diversified into other investments All profits were plowed back into

the corporation"

"Where did the name De Beers come from?"

"De Beers was the South African far sold his diamond-laden land for a few thousand dollars to Cecil Rhodes, who excavated a fortune and launched the cartel"

"Did Henry Dorsett join Oppenheimer and the De Beers cartel?" asked Pitt

"Although he participated in e hty-five percent of the world's production went through the De Beers-controlled Central Selling Organization to brokers and dealers, Dorsett bypassed the es in London, Antwerp, Tel Aviv and New York so he could market a lih the House of Dorsett, which now numbers almost five hundred stores"

"De Beers did not fight him?"