setting aside the gems; but that shall be accounted the promised share
of this traitor, and with that reward he shall depart, and you can
divide it as you will. He will get little enough, I doubt not. Take
him, if you wish him to live; and no friendship of mine goes with him.
     “Get down now to your friends!” he said to Bilbo, “or I will throw you
down.”
     “What about the gold and silver?” asked Bilbo.
     “That shall follow after, as can be arranged,” said he.
     “Get down!”
     “Until then we keep the stone,” cried Bard.
     “You are not making a very splendid figure as King under the
Mountain,” said Gandalf. “But things may change yet.”
     “They may indeed,” said Thorin. And already, so strong was the
bewilderment of the treasure upon him, he was pondering whether by the
help of Dain he might not recapture the Arkenstone and withhold the
share of the reward.
     And so Bilbo was swung down from the wall, and departed with nothing
for all his trouble, except the armour which Thorin had given him
already. More than one of the dwarves ‘in their hearts felt shame and
     “Farewell!” he cried to them. “We may meet again as friends.” “Be