I doubt if any man could, if he chose not to be found," said Narkom bitterly.

"I did not recover these jewels by any act of my own.

He sent them to me; gave them up voluntarily." "Gave them up?
After he had risked so much to get them?
God bless my soul, what a man! Why, there must be quite half here of what he took." "There is half--an even half.

He sent them to-night, and with them this letter.

Look at it, and you will understand why I sent for you and asked you to come alone." "There's some good in even the devil, I suppose, if one but knows how to reach it and stir it up," Sir Horace read.