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The gents still try to figure some way to safeguard their ill fated jewel. Abner tells about some circus shows, but the dangerous feats only make Lum all the more nervous. A phone call brings word of how Dick Huddleston is doing after being hit on the head. Abner comments, “It looks like it just ain’t safe for nobody to touch this diamond.”
Worries turn to being turned out in the street, once Squire Skimp comes calling to collect on their mortgages. Has a solution been found in the pages of a catalog? The diversion is interrupted with a phone call. More illnesses have stricken folks in Pine Ridge.
Lum figures the only safe thing to do is bury the diamond. Later. We find the gents digging at night. Should the gents just sell the diamond to the stranger? Will they be cursed, and face death if the man finds them with the diamond again? Despite the dangers, part of Lum still wants to keep it. Just when their hole is dug, Lum discovers the diamond is missing.
