"Is the sugar camp a safe place?" asked Matt.
"Nobody ever goes to the old camp now no more," replied Pryne.
"My cracious, vat a dust!" said Goldstein. "How big is der Eye?" he whispered to Matt.
"Wait till you see it," Matt answered.
"Pigeon's blood, yes?"
Matt supposed he meant to ask if the Eye of Buddha was a pigeon's blood ruby. Taking a chance, Matt nodded.
"She is a true Oriental, eh?" went on Goldstein, a greedy glint coming into his eyes.
"It must be if it comes from China."
"So! If she weigh five carat, she is vorth ten times so much as a diamond. But diamonds ain't vorth so much now."
Matt looked behind him. The sack of middlings was half emptied.