"There is never any knowing who is an honest man and who is not," he said.

"I will bury them, master." "But somebody might find them." "No fear of that, sir.

I will go a bit up the valley and bury them under a big rock well above the river, so that it will not be reached in the highest floods.

They might lie there a hundred years without anyone finding them, even if every soul in Susa knew that they were hidden somewhere and went out to search for them." "Very well; but be sure you take notice of the exact position of the stone, or you may not be able to find it again yourself.

One big stone is a good deal like another.