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.Fallon had made his own inexorably predestined by thesecuriously childish fantasies a kind of spurious and almost self-defen-sivesatisfaction of a congenital urge for easy money.He rolled up his sleeves and plunged his bare arms into the cooling gadgetwith the rather wistful expression which he always wore when performing thatpart of his task.When he stood up again he was clutching a round grey stoneglisten-ing with water; and for a moment or two he gazed at it dreamily.Itwas at this stage of the proceedings that Louie's histrionics invariably ranaway with him when, for two or three seconds, his imagination really allowedhim to picture himself as the exponent of an earth-shaking scientificdis-covery, the genuine result of those futile experiments on which he hadspent so much of his time and so much of the money which he had earned fromthe sham."There you are," he said."There's your diamond and any dealer in London wouldbe glad to buy it.Here take it yourself." He pressed the wet stone into SimonTemplar's hand."Show it to anyone you like, and if there's a dealer in Londonwho wouldn't be glad to pay two hundred quid for it, I'll give you a thousandpounds." He picked up his glass again; and then, as if he had suddenlyremembered the essential tone of his story, his face recovered its expressionof uncontrollable gloom."And I'm the unhappiest man in the world," he saidlugubriously.Simon raised his eyebrows."But good God!" he objected."How on earth can you be unhappy if you can turnout a two-hundred-pound diamond every half-hour?"Louie shook his head."Because I haven't a chance to spend the money," he replied.He led the way back dejectedly into the living-room and threw himself into achair, thoughtfully refilling his glass before he did so."You see," he said, when Simon Templar had taken the chair opposite him withhis glass also refilled."A thing like this has got to be handled properly.It's no good my just making diamonds and trying to sell them.I might get awaywith one or two, but if I brought a sackful of them into a shop and tried tosell 'em the buyer would start to wonder whether I was trying to get rid ofsome illicit stuff.He'd want to ask all sorts of questions about where I got'em, and as likely as not he'd call in the police.And what does that mean? Itmeans that either I've got to say nothing and probably get taken for a crookand put in prison " Louie's features registered profound horror at thisfrightful possi-bility."Or else I've got to give away my secret.And if Isaid that I made the diamonds myself, they'd want me to prove it; and if Iproved it, everybody would know it could be done, and the bottom would fallout of the diamond market.If people knew that anybody could make diamonds forthreepence a time, diamonds just wouldn't be worth any-thing any more."Simon nodded.The argument was logical and provided a very intriguing impasse.He waited for Mr.Fallon to point the way out."What this thing needs," said Louie, duly coming up to expectations, "issomeone to run it in a businesslike way.It's got to be scientific, just likethe way the diamonds are made." Mr.Fallon had worked all this out for himselfin his day-dreams, and the recital was mechanically easy."Someone would haveto go off somewhere not to South Africa, be-cause that's too much controlled,but to South America maybe and do some prospectin'.After a while he'd reportthat he'd found diamonds, and set up a mine.We'd set up a company and sellshares to the public, and after a bit the diamonds'd start comin' home andthey could all be sold in the regular market quite legitimate.""Why don't you do that?" inquired the Saint perplexedly."I've got no heart for it," said Louie with a sigh."I'm not so young as Iwas; and besides, I never had any kind of head for these things.And I don'twant to do it.I don't want to get myself tied up in a lot of business worriesand office work.I've had that all my life.I want to enjoy myself travelaround and meet some girls and have a good time.Be-tween you and I," said Mr.Page 102 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlFallon with a catch in his voice and tears glistening in his eyes, "thedoctors tell me that I haven't long to live.I've had a hard life, and I wantto make the best of what I have got left.Now, if I had a young fellow likeyourself to help me."He leaned further back in his chair, with his eyes half dosed, and went on asif talking to himself: "It'd have to be a chap who could keep his mouth shut,a sport who wouldn't mind doing a bit of hard work for a lot of money someonethat I could just leave to manage everything while I went off and had a goodtime.He'd have to have a bit of money of his own to invest in the company,just to make everything square and aboveboard and legal, and in a year or sohe'd be a bloomin' millionaire ridin' around in a Rolls Royce with chauffeursand everything.You'd think it'd be easy to find a fellow like that, but itisn't.There aren't many chaps that I take a likin' to not chaps that I feel Icould trust with anything as big as this.That's why when I took a fancy toyou, I wondered." Mr.Fallon sighed again, a sigh of heart-rendingself-pity
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