“I think I can find a purchaser.”
“I wish you would, then.”
“I’ll try to see the party I have in view to-night.”
“Now,” said Kidd, and he appeared very anxious, “you have me in your power.”
“What do you mean?” asked Enoch, in pretended surprise.
“You alone know how Aimee Jacquet came to her death. Come what may, never inform on me. I will treat you square. As I intended all along, half the money received for the green diamond will be yours, Enoch.”
Cook smiled. He was extremely avaricious, and the prospect of becoming possessor of a large sum of money was peculiarly pleasing to him.
“I have had many pals,” he said, “and not one of them can say I ever played him false.”
“I put you down as a true man when I first met you.”
Enoch chuckled to himself. Had he possession of the Eye of Jobu, Kidd would soon discover how square his pal was. Cook would most certainly have appropriated the gem for himself.