I don't need no reward for doing it. [He laughs, hollowly and somewhat mockingly.] Besides, it's likely I have more wealth in my bag of jewels than you do anywhere in the palace. So there's not like to be anything I could be rewarded with, is there?

[And he had those jewels with him. Some, but not all. Enough he hopes to see them safely back, though he was bitter that such hard earned jewels should be wasted on this journey.]