You are just as likely to _lose_ them, as you call it, in the night as in the day." "I'm very much obliged to you," he replied.

"I will take your advice this very night.

I say," he added, suddenly, "you would not care to see them, would you?
I would not have any one else catch sight of them for a good deal, but I would show you them in a moment.

Every one else is on deck just now, if you would like to come down into my cabin." I hardly know one stone from another, and never could tell a diamond from paste; but he seemed so anxious to show me what he had, that I did not like to refuse.
"By all means," I said.

And we went below.
It was very dark in Carr's cabin, and after he had let me in he locked the door carefully before he struck a light.