M. Lantin said gravely: "I will bring them to you." An hour later he
returned with the gems.
The large diamond earrings were worth twenty thousand francs; the
bracelets thirty-five thousand; the rings, sixteen thousand; a set of
emeralds and sapphires, fourteen thousand; a gold chain with solitaire
pendant, forty thousand--making the sum of one hundred and forty-three
thousand francs.
The jeweler remarked, jokingly:
"There was a person who invested all her earnings in precious stones."