Luck at the Diamond Fields

The coach to the Diamond Fields was just starting from the Beaufort West railway-station, and the passengers who were destined to travel over hundreds of miles of burnt-up veldt...

A year had passed since Kate said good-bye to George Darrell. Her life seemed to her to be divided into three volumes--her early life, the journey up to the Diamond Fields, and...

"So it seems that the Cape Colony was very nearly saving us the trouble of looking after poor Tom Gray's girl," said the Rector of Morden, Warwickshire, to his wife, who sat opp...

"If we could get hold of one of these mines between us, we would show them how to work it, I guess. We wouldn't fool around the camp trying to float a company and let a lot of l...

A few days after their conversation with the prospector, Messrs. Hardman and Timson were again on a prospecting expedition. This time they had sought the prospector's hump-backe...

Mr Ziederman arrived at Kimberley on the appointed day. Transfer was duly given, and the ten thousand pounds were paid over to him. Timson could not help feeling rather a twinge...

The General, as he had been called since diamond-digging first broke out on the banks of the Vaal River, inhabited a hut built of rough stones and thatched with reeds near the r...

The diamond was just such a stone as the poor old General used to describe when he talked of the one he expected to come across--such a stone as he argued that the one he saw in...

It was in the flush times on the Diamond Fields; the days afterwards remembered, in the bad times which came so soon, with so much wondering regret. In those days every one had...

"By Jove, no horse in this forsaken country ever galloped like that before," said Jack Brereton, as he stood outside his house at Buffelsfontein and watched Kildare leave his ot...

"It's all right, now go and back The Pirate for what you can get," said Nat Lane, as he came into Mr Gideon's house, where that gentleman had been waiting for some hours on the...

It was a pure white stone of over two hundred carats, and since nature had somehow brewed it ages before it had rested peacefully in its native `blue' as innocent of harm as the...

Strangers, who find themselves for the first time in Hatton Garden, are probably somewhat surprised when they learn that they are in the principal diamond market of the world. I...

Twenty-four hours after Jack Enderby received the hundred pounds he was dressing in some furnished chambers he had taken in Jermyn Street. Those twenty-four hours had done a goo...