What with this and with my half share of the gold and my share of the unclaimed stones, I found that I had a very considerable fortune.

The whole of my stones I sold to De Beers, for if I had placed them on the open market I should have upset the delicate equipoise of diamond values.

When I came finally to cast up my accounts, I found that I had secured a fortune of a trifle over a quarter of a million pounds.
The wealth did not dazzle so much as it solemnized me.

I had no impulse to spend any part of it in a riot of folly.

It had come to me like fairy gold out of the void; it had been bought with men's blood, almost with my own.