Ask them to step in here and do not tell them why. And when his servant looked through the rear door, \"Boy, go to such a one, and such another one and such a third one. Go to their offices and show your pearl-or better let them come here, so that you can see there is no collusion. And the dealer felt a little tremor of fear. You want to cheat me.\" And the dealer heard a little grumble go through the crowd as they heard his price. I can give you, say, a thousand pesos.\" Kino's face grew dark and dangerous. As a curiosity it has interest some museum might perhaps take it to place in a collection of sea shells. \"No one has ever seen such a pearl.\" \"On the contrary,\" said the dealer, \"it is large and clumsy.
\"It isĥ0 JOHN STEINBECK the Pearl of the World,\" he cried. You thought it was a thing of value, and it is only a curiosity.\" Now Kino's face was perplexed and worried. Who would buy it? There is no market for such things. \"You have heard of fool's gold,\" the dealer said. that it bounced and rebounded softly from the side of the vel vet tray. The dealer's fingers spurned the pearl so. \"It is a pearl of great value,\" Kino said.
\"I am sorry, my friend,\" he said, and his shoulders rose a little to indicate that the misfortune was n� fault of his. The hand tossed the great pearl back in the tray, the forefinger poked and insulted it, and on the dealer's face there came a sad and contemptuous smile. tioned yet-They have not come to a price.\" Now the dealer's hand had become a personality.
\"He is inspecting it-No price has been men. Kino held his breath, and the neighbors held their breath, and the whispering went back through the crowd. When the right hand came out of hiding, the forefinger touched the great pearl, rolled it on the black velvet thumb and forefin ger picked it up and brought it near to the dealer's eyes and twirled it in the air. And the fingers behind the desk curled into a fist. The coin stumbled over a knuckle and slipped silently into the dealer's lap. But there was no sign, no movement, the face did not change, but the secret hand behind the desk missed in its precision. THE PEARL 49 took from it the soft and dirty piece of deerskin, and then he let the great pearl roll into the black velvet tray, and instantly his eyes went to the buyer's face.
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