Jenkins was a jeweler, who had made a large diamond (钻石)ring worth £57,000 for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop.When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked 1 like the first one but was worth only£2,000.This he took to the shop, which 2 it without a question.
Jenkins gave the much more 3 ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday.Then, the husband and wife 4 to Paris for a weekend.As to the 5 ring, the shop sold it for£60,000.
Six months later the buyer 6 it back to Silkstone's office.“It's a faulty (有瑕疵的)diamond,”he said.“It isn't worth the high 7 I paid.”Then he told them the 8 .His wife's car had caught fire in an 9 .She had escaped (幸免) , 10 the ring had fallen off and been damaged (损坏) in the great 11 of the fire.
The shop had to 12 .They knew that no fire on earth can 13 damage a perfect diamond.Someone had taken the 14 diamond and put a faulty one in its place.The question was:who 15 it?
A picture of the ring appeared in the 16 .A reader thought he 17 7the ring.The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which 18 a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris.Behind the dancer there was a woman 19 a large diamond ring.“Do You know the 20 with the lovely diamond ring?”the papers asked their readers.Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.