“Yes, my Angela, for the diamonds. In the world which you have never seen men commit horrible crimes for insignificant gains, and I have here in my pocket the value of a king’s ransom. Even the average man could hardly withstand so great a temptation, and all we know of these sailors is that one of them is a thief.”
“What will you do then?”
“First of all, I must find a safer hiding-place for our wealth than my pockets; and we must be ever on our guard. The voyage will not be long, and we shall be three against two.”
“Three! You will take Ramon, then?”
“Certainly—if he will go with us.”
“Of course he will. Ramon would follow you to the world’s end. And the other sailor—Yawl—may have been drowned in the flood.”
“I don’t think so. The flood did not go much farther than this, and Yawl was busy with his boat. But we shall soon know; the cliffs are in sight.”