Here's a puzzle from The Book of 500 Curious Puzzles:
A lady sent a diamond cross to a jeweler to be repaired. To provide against any of her diamonds being stolen, she had the precaution to count the number of diamonds, which she did in the following manner: She found the cross contained in length from A to B, nine diamonds; reckoning from B to C, or from B to D, she also counted nine. When the cross was returned, she found the number of diamonds thus counted precisely the same, yet two diamonds had been purloined. How was this managed?
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