"I'd gamble my head on it.

I knew it! I knew it!" he told himself.

Again he faced the tramp: "Haney, do you know how much the diamonds you had were worth ?" "Must 'a' been three or four hundred dollars." "Something like fifty thousand dollars," Mr.Birnes informed him impressively; "and if you got fifty thousand dollars for your share the other man got a million." Haney only stared..