Two-Hawks--Hawksley hereafter, for the sake of convenience--had an equity in the gems; but what of that?
In smuggling them in--and how the deuce had he done it ?--he had thrown away his legal right to them.

Cutty kneaded his conscience into a satisfactory condition of quiescence and went on with his planning.

If he succeeded in recovering the stones and his conscience bit a little too deeply for comfort--why, he could pay over to Hawksley twenty per cent.

of the price Karlov demanded.

He could take it or leave it.