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Amos Goodhare was the first to recover from the sort of stupefaction into which the sight of their royal plunder had thrown the three confederates.
"Well, boys," he said, "I think we may rest on our laurels a little while after this feat. It would take an expert in jewels, which I don't profess to be, to tell you what value we have there. But here is a diamond in this," and he took up the diadem, "which cannot, I should think, be worth less than five thousand pounds. While this crown," and he laid his hand upon the other and still more magnificent prize, "ought to bring us in enough to live in modest comfort for the remainder of our lives."