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Dalrymple J. Belgrave. Luck at the Diamond Fields
Luck at the Diamond Fields
Table of Contents
"Luck at the Diamond Fields"
Story 1
A Tale of the Kimberley Coach. Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Story 2
Kitty of “The Frozen Bar.”
Story 3
Diamond Cut Diamond
Story 4
The Farm Boschfontein. Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Story 5
Luck—An Episode in a Digger’s Life
Story 6
A Dear Lesson
Story 7
A Vaal River Heiress. Part One
Part Two
Story 8
A Duel at “Poker.”
Story 9
“A Whiskey Drinker.”
Story 10
Jumped—A Tale of the Kimberley Races. Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Story 11
A Queer Race
Story 12
A Compact
Story 13
A Fatal Diamond. Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
The End
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Dalrymple J. Belgrave
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The man talked away for a few minutes, and then went to the opening of the tent, gave a shout, and then in a second, to Darrell’s astonishment, two men, one of whom he knew by sight as a Kimberley detective, made their appearance. In a twinkling they had handcuffed him, searched him and the tent, and found a diamond in a pannikin near his bed. Darrell’s protestations of his innocence went for very little, and in the course of another twenty-four hours he found himself a prisoner in Kimberley jail, awaiting a trial for buying a diamond illicitly.
On his trial it was proved that Seers had been searched before he went into the tent, and had no money upon him; when he came out he had ten sovereigns in his possession. The detectives were able to swear to the diamond found in Darrell’s possession as the one they had given Seers before he went into the tent. The case seemed to be exactly like the ordinary cases of trapping that come before the courts at Kimberley almost every week. The judge who tried it expressed his opinion that it was one about which he had not the slightest doubt as to the prisoner’s guilt, and sentenced him to hard labour for five years.
