"I have told you that no one is liable to come here to-night--and whoever did this certainly will not raise an alarm.

And besides, there is still the matter of the rubies--Burton." "Yes," said Burton, with a quick intake of his breath.
"Yes--the rubies--what are you going to do with them?
I--I had forgotten them.

You'll--" He stopped, stared at Jimmie Dale, and burst into a miserable laugh.

"I'm a fool, a blind fool!" he moaned.

"It does not matter what you do with them.