In Search of an Unknown Race — page 186: what you’re looking at

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174 VAN. ‘¢But if she liked him na’ better than she showed the whiles they were aboord the Carita, it'll be a cauld day before they be wedded,” remarked the captain with another chuckle—a remark, I need hardly say, which gave Van almost as much secret satisfaction as to learn that Tom had accompanied Ninada and her foster mother to America in the capacity of a personal attend- ant. From Captain McGrath Van obtained the address of a reliable dealer in precious stones in the Calle da Presidio, one of the business streets of Para. ‘‘l’m not an inqueesitive man,” he observed, dryly, ‘*but I weuldn’t mind givin’ a good dealto find out what section of the Brazeels ye all came fra’, for the young leddy and the good-lookin’ chap baith wanted the address of a diamond broker where they could sell some stones.” But Van laughingly evaded a direct reply, and after a little more conversation took his departure up town, leaving the Scotch captain in a state of quite unusual excitement at this episode in his prosaic life. Mr. Isaacs the diamond broker of the Calle da Presidio —a keen-eyed merchant of the Jewish persuasion, who spoke without the intonation peculiar to his race—eyed Van’s rusty and battered pith helmet and travel-stained garb with something like disfavor as the latter entered his place of business. But his features relaxed as Van mentioned his errand and produced the stones, two of which he offered for sale. ‘‘The finest Brazilian stones I ever saw,” he said, for the moment allowing his professional skill to over- CORMIElOOOlKS (EO)