"Worth? I don't know the exact figures, but Schumer has pearls there on the island now that I reckon must be at least worth twenty thousand pounds. I'm figuring on the values he suggested, and he's a man who knows something of pearls, and he's not a man who exaggerates."
"Well, I'm not going to halve your pearls," said Cardon. "I reckon my share in the business will be the whole of Schumer's."
"Of Schumer's?"
"Of Schumer's."
"But, see here," said Floyd.
"Yes?"
"You intend to take Schumer's share from him?"
"That is what I said."
"But would that be fair? He has worked deuced hard; he discovered the oyster beds——"
"And he betrayed you, and is only waiting there on this island of yours to help to do you in."