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To my great disappointment he never appeared. I acknowledged my ignorance, and was then told, for the first time, of an event which forms, so to speak, the starting-point of this narrative. On the previous Friday, two gentlemen occupying widely-different positions in society had been the victims of an outrage which had startled all London. One of the gentlemen was Mr. Septimus Luker, of Lambeth.
The box, when claimed, to be only given up by Messrs. Bushe and Co. on the personal application of Mr. Luker." Those lines removed all further doubt, on one point at least. The sailor had been in possession of the Moonstone, when he had left the bank on the previous day. I felt another pull at my coat-tails. Gooseberry had not done with me yet.
Godfrey Ablewhite chose to keep the Diamond, he might do so with perfect impunity. The Moonstone stood between him and ruin. He put the Moonstone into his pocket. Luker. Mr. Luker believed the story to be, as to all main essentials, true on this ground, that Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite was too great a fool to have invented it. Mr. Bruff and I agree with Mr.
He declares that he never heard of the Moonstone; and his bankers' receipt acknowledges nothing but the deposit of a valuable of great price. The Indians assume that Mr. Luker is lying and you assume again that the Indians are right. All I say, in differing with you, is that my view is possible. What more, Mr. Blake, either logically, or legally, can be said for yours?"
Luker slowly made his way to the door now in the thickest, now in the thinnest part of the crowd. I distinctly saw his hand move, as he passed a short, stout man, respectably dressed in a suit of sober grey. The man started a little, and looked after him. Mr. Luker moved on slowly through the crowd. At the door his guard placed themselves on either side of him.
In spite of his European disguise, Mr. Luker had instantly identified his visitor with the chief of the three Indians, who had formerly annoyed him by loitering about his house, and who had left him no alternative but to consult a magistrate. The result was that he became quite paralysed with terror, and that he firmly believed his last hour had come.
But what volumes of meaning in them! Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite began a story. Mr. Luker opened his lips again, and only said three words, this time. "That won't do!" Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite began another story. Mr. Luker wasted no more words on him. He got up, and rang the bell for the servant to show the gentleman out. Upon this compulsion, Mr.
No: only the man who had been employed to follow Mr. Luker when he left the bank. The report, in this case, presented no feature of the slightest interest. Mr. Luker had gone back to his own house, and had there dismissed his guard. He had not gone out again afterwards. Towards dusk, the shutters had been put up, and the doors had been bolted.
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