“How valuable?” asked Kidd, speaking for the first time.
“I might be able to get eight or ten thousand dollars for it, but I am not going to pay you that price.”
Kidd and Enoch exchanged looks. Both felt rather crestfallen. Dick believed Murphy’s statement. Cook did not.
“Well,” said the latter, “I guess we will have to take the jewel to another mart.”
“I will give you five thousand dollars for it.”
“I’d throw it in a sewer before I’d accept that price!” said Enoch.
“You must be well supplied with funds, when you can throw away five thousand dollars,” remarked Monte.
“We won’t take less than fifty thousand, not a penny.”
“You’ll never get it.”
“Give me the stone!”