Opal dispute involves Austin, Texas, and Adelaide, Australia

AUSTIN, Texas — Where to begin with this story?
There’s the soap opera angle, reportedly involving bitter infighting among city politicians over a precious gem thought by at least one person to be bad luck.
There’s the angle that sounds straight out of a Sherlock Holmes tale, with one newspaper writing of “the mystery of the Lady Mayoress’ opal.”
Then there’s the comedic angle, one reminiscent of that “Seinfeld” episode where an astronaut pen