"If that's so, they'll have every atom of the remaining treasure, and we shall be done for." He spoke as if until that moment they had received nothing.
"It's just possible they may have done so, of course," said Kitwater, "but how are we to know?
We couldn't prevent them, for we don't know how many of them there may be.

That fellow you saw this evening may only have been placed there to spy upon our movements.

Confound it all, I wish we were a bigger party." "It's no use wishing that," Hayle returned, and then after a pause he added--"Fortunately we hold a good many lives in our hands, and what's more, we know the value of our own.

The only thing we can do is to watch, watch, and watch, and, if we are taken by surprise, we shall have nobody to thank for it but ourselves.

Now if you'll stand sentry, Coddy and I will get tea." They set to work, and the meal was in due course served and eaten.
Afterwards Codd went on guard, being relieved by Hayle at midnight.