"I think that the chance of ever finding it is very small.

Still, it will give me an object to begin life with." "Oh, I hope that you will never find it!" she exclaimed.

"From what you say it will be a terrible danger if you do get it." Mark smiled.
"I hardly think so, Millicent.

I cannot believe that people would be following up this thing for over fifteen years, for it was many years before the Colonel came home that he got possession of these diamonds.
Even Hindoos would, I think, have got sick of such a hopeless affair long before this; but as they may ever since your father's death have been watching us, although it hardly seems possible, I shall follow out the Colonel's instructions, and get rid of those particular diamonds at once.

I shall only keep them about me long enough to take them to Amsterdam and sell them there.