I should then make up two large caskets with your own jewels, those of Cacama, and some of the most valuable stones and jewels from the royal treasury--leaving all the royal ornaments worn on state occasions, so that the usurper will not know that any have been abstracted." "I would rather take nothing but my own and Cacama's personal jewels," the queen said.
"The contents of the whole treasury are his, by rights; and you must remember, Madam, that jewels may be very useful to you.

You will have to work for Cacama, and unhappily there are many who are not insensible to bribes; and the possession of valuable jewels may enable you to be of great assistance to the king." "I did not think of that," the queen said.

"Yes, you are right.
There is a hoard stowed away by the late king, and by his father before him.

Its existence is only known to my husband and myself.

I have never seen it, but Cacama tells me that it is of immense value; and was to be used only in case of an extreme emergency, and danger to the state.