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Septimus Luker, Middlesex-place, Lambeth, London." "There," he said, pointing to the address, "are the last words, on the subject of the Moonstone, which I shall trouble you with for the present. Time will show whether I am right or wrong. In the meanwhile, sir, I carry away with me a sincere personal liking for you, which I think does honour to both of us.
But he did what none of my own countrymen had ever done, in all my experience of them he respected my time. "I am sorry," I said, "that you should have had the trouble of coming to me. Mr. Luker is quite mistaken in sending you here. I am trusted, like other men in my profession, with money to lend. But I never lend it to strangers, and I never lend it on such a security as you have produced."
Luker passed the Diamond. It seems odd that Mr. Bruff, and I, and the man in Mr. Bruff's employment, should all have been mistaken about who the person was." "Not at all, Mr. Blake. Considering the risk that person ran, it's likely enough that Mr. Luker purposely misled you, by previous arrangement between them." "Do you understand the proceedings at the public-house?" I asked.
Godfrey Ablewhite had two modest proposals to make, in relation to this magnificent gem. First, Would Mr. Luker be so good as to buy it? Secondly, Would Mr. Mr. Luker tested the Diamond, weighed the Diamond and estimated the value of the Diamond, before he answered a word. Having reached that result, Mr. Luker opened his lips, and put a question: "How did you come by this?" Only six words!
On the twenty-fourth he had three hundred pounds to pay to the young gentleman for whom he was trustee, and no chance of raising the money, except the chance that Mr. Luker had offered to him. But for this miserable obstacle, he might have taken the Diamond to Amsterdam, and have made a marketable commodity of it, by having it cut up into separate stones.
Murthwaite was not an easy man to astonish; but that last answer of mine completely staggered him. I described what had happened to Mr. Luker, and what had happened to myself, exactly as I have described it here. "It is clear that the Indian's parting inquiry had an object," I added.
The Indian bowed. "May I ask how it is that Mr. Luker himself did not advance the money that you require?" "Mr. Luker informed me, sir, that he had no money to lend." "And so he recommended you to come to me?" The Indian, in his turn, pointed to the card. "It is written there," he said. Briefly answered, and thoroughly to the purpose!
"News from the bank?" I asked, as we started. "News of Mr. Luker," said Mr. Bruff. "An hour ago, he was seen to leave his house at Lambeth, in a cab, accompanied by two men, who were recognised by my men as police officers in plain clothes. If Mr. Luker's dread of the Indians is at the bottom of this precaution, the inference is plain enough. He is going to take the Diamond out of the bank."
Luker passed anything to anybody on his way out of the bank. I saw Mr. Luker pass something to the sailor with the black beard." "Why didn't you tell Mr. Bruff what you saw?" "I hadn't time to tell anybody, sir, the sailor went out in such a hurry." "And you ran out after him eh?" "Yes, sir."
"It is certain, I suppose, that the three men who laid the trap for you were the same three men who afterwards laid the trap for Mr. Luker?" "Humanly speaking, my dear Rachel, there can be no doubt of it." "And not a trace of them has been discovered?" "Not a trace." "It is thought is it not? that these three men are the three Indians who came to our house in the country." "Some people think so."
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