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How was he to be sure that the conversation of that evening would be kept strictly secret between his friend and himself? Mr. Luker didn't profess to know how. If Mr. Godfrey had accepted his terms, Mr. Godfrey would have made him an accomplice, and might have counted on his silence as on a certainty. As things were, Mr. Luker must be guided by his own interests.
Bruff looked where the boy was looking. "Hush!" he said. "Here is Mr. Luker!" The money-lender came out from the inner regions of the bank, followed by his two guardian policemen in plain clothes. "Keep your eye on him," whispered Mr. Bruff. "If he passes the Diamond to anybody, he will pass it here." Without noticing either of us, Mr.
Luker was, in every respect, such an inferior creature to the Indian he was so vulgar, so ugly, so cringing, and so prosy that he is quite unworthy of being reported, at any length, in these pages. The substance of what he had to tell me may be fairly stated as follows: The day before I had received the visit of the Indian, Mr. Luker had been favoured with a call from that accomplished gentleman.
Suppose you found Miss Verinder quite unaccountably interested in what has happened to Mr. Ablewhite and Mr. Luker? Suppose she asked the strangest questions about this dreadful scandal, and displayed the most ungovernable agitation when she found out the turn it was taking?" "Suppose anything you please, Miss Clack, it wouldn't shake my belief in Rachel Verinder by a hair's-breadth."
On the other side, was a torn sheet of white paper, with a seal on it, partly destroyed, and with an inscription in writing, which was still perfectly legible. The inscription was in these words: "Deposited with Messrs. Bushe, Lysaught, and Bushe, by Mr. Septimus Luker, of Middlesex Place, Lambeth, a small wooden box, sealed up in this envelope, and containing a valuable of great price.
Luker, in considering this test of the truth of the story to be a perfectly reliable one. The next question, was the question of what Mr. Luker would do in the matter of the Moonstone. Mr. Luker would consent to lend Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite the sum of two thousand pounds, on condition that the Moonstone was to be deposited with him as a pledge. If, at the expiration of one year from that date, Mr.
"You never saw him before you and he met accidentally at the bank?" "Never." "You have seen him since?" "Yes. We have been examined together, as well as separately, to assist the police." "Mr. Luker was robbed of a receipt which he had got from his banker's was he not? What was the receipt for?" "For a valuable gem which he had placed in the safe keeping of the bank."
"That's what the newspapers say. It may be enough for the general reader; but it is not enough for me. The banker's receipt must have mentioned what the gem was?" "The banker's receipt, Rachel as I have heard it described mentioned nothing of the kind. A valuable gem, belonging to Mr. Luker; deposited by Mr. Luker; sealed with Mr. Luker's seal; and only to be given up on Mr.
She went on with her questions, unabashed. Earnest Biblical students will perhaps be reminded as I was reminded of the blinded children of the devil, who went on with their orgies, unabashed, in the time before the Flood. "I want to know something about Mr. Luker, Godfrey." "I am again unfortunate, Rachel. No man knows less of Mr. Luker than I do."
Luker had, or had not, trusted the transmission of his precious gem to another person; and poor polite Mr. Godfrey had paid the penalty of having been seen accidentally speaking to him. Add to this, that Mr.
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