“I told him we would bring it to him before to-morrow night.”

“What’s the matter with going there now?” inquired Kidd.

“Have you the diamond with you?”

Dick laughed.

“Do you think,” he said, “I would trust it out of my possession? It is not every day a man runs up against a fortune.”

“Then we will visit Murphy.”

“Are you sure the fellow is square?” asked Kidd.

“Yes; I could get a dozen ‘high-rollers’ to vouch for him.”

“But, according to your own statement, he did not say he would buy the stone.”

“No; but he intimated that he would,” answered Enoch.