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Jenkins was a jeweller, who had made a large diamond 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. Then he took it to the shop, which 2 it without 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 (至于说) 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 (假的) 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, 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 13 fire on earth can ever damage a perfect (完美的) 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 the 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 (监狱).
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