If so, they might possibly know who was my uncle's servant at the time.

The man may be a pensioner, and in that case I might discover his address through the military authorities, and I could find out from him whether my uncle often rode out at night, what were his habits, and possibly where the tent stood, and so on." "Well," Mr.Prendergast said, "if you like to undertake a wild goose chase of this sort it is your business, and not mine; but I consider the idea is the most Utopian that I ever heard of.

As to where the tent stood, is it likely that a man would remember to within a hundred yards where a tent stood fourteen years ago?
Why, you might dig up acres and acres of ground and not be sure then that you had hit upon the right place." "There is one other circumstance, Mr.Prendergast," Mark said quietly, "that has to be taken into consideration, and which renders it improbable that these diamonds were hidden anywhere by my uncle himself at that time.

He certainly spoke of the whole of this treasure collectively.

It is morally certain that he would not carry all these jewels that he had been collecting about with him, and certainly not his treasure in money.