"If those diamonds are in your way, I'll take them in front with me.

If not, I'll ask you to keep an eye on them--or, let us say, keep a foot on them.

If you should be foolish enough to heave them overboard or try to renew your assault upon me, I would be tempted to break this milk bottle.

In that event, my dear Mallow, you'd go through life with a tin cup in your hand and a dog on a string." Tony groaned in abject misery of body and soul.

Mallow cursed feebly.
"What--is that devilish stuff ?" the latter queried.