When I am dead you are almost certain to be watched.

You don't know what these fellows are.
The things must remain where they are until your boy comes of age.

Don't let him keep those diamonds an hour in his possession; let him pass them away privately to some man in whom he has implicit confidence, for him to take them to a jeweler's; let him double and turn and disguise himself so as to throw everyone that may be spying on him off his track.

If you can manage it, the best way would be to carry them over to Amsterdam, and sell them there.' "I confess it seemed absurd, but it is a matter about which he would know a great deal more than I do, and he was convinced that not only was he watched, but that he owed his life simply to the fact that the fellows did not know where the diamonds were hidden, and that by killing him they would have lost every chance of regaining them.
"So convinced was he of all this, that he would not tell me where he had stowed them away; he seemed to think that the very walls would hear us, and that these fellows might be hidden under the sofa, in a cupboard, or up the chimney, for aught I know.

He told me that he would tell me the secret before he died; but death came so suddenly that he never had an opportunity of doing so.