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compromise Mr. Grey's. Mr. Fairbrother, from whose testimony many of us hoped
something would yet be gleaned calculated to give a turn to the suspicion now
centered on one man, continued ill in New Mexico; and all that could be learned
from him of any importance was contained in a short letter dictated from his
bed, in which he affirmed that the diamond, when it left him, was in a unique
setting procured by himself in France; that he knew of no other jewel similarly
mounted, and that if the false gem was set according to his own description,
the probabilities were that the imitation stone had been put in place of the
real one under his wife's direction and in some workshop in New York, as she
was not the woman to take the trouble to send abroad for anything she could get
done in this country. The description followed.
