To perform three acts, then: Save Gregor, capture Karlov and his pack, and privately confiscate the emeralds.

Findings were keepings.

No compromise regarding those green stones.

It would not particularly hurt his reputation with St.
Peter to play the half rogue once in a lifetime.

Besides, St.Peter, hadn't he stolen something himself back there in the Biblical days; or got into a scrape or something?
The old boy would understand.