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"Is it really as serious as that?" he asked. "In my opinion it is," answered Mr. Murthwaite. "I can't doubt, after what you have told me, that the restoration of the Moonstone to its place on the forehead of the Indian idol, is the motive and the justification of that sacrifice of caste which I alluded to just now.
Franklin, after what looked to me like a little private veering about between the different sides of his character, broke the silence as follows: "I feel some hesitation, Mr. Murthwaite, in troubling you with family matters, in which you can have no interest and which I am not very willing to speak of out of our own circle.
"The Indians won't risk coming back to-night," he said. "The direct way is hardly ever the way they take to anything let alone a matter like this, in which the slightest mistake might be fatal to their reaching their end." "But suppose the rogues are bolder than you think, sir?" I persisted. "In that case," says Mr. Murthwaite, "let the dogs loose. Have you got any big dogs in the yard?"
"It might have never entered my head, but for a conversation we had together some time since. If Mr. Murthwaite is right, the Indians are likely to be on the lookout at the bank, towards the end of the month too and something serious may come of it. What comes of it doesn't matter to you and me except as it may help us to lay our hands on the mysterious Somebody who pawned the Diamond.
Murthwaite was another. Godfrey Ablewhite was a third. Mr. Bruff no: I called to mind that business had prevented Mr. Bruff from making one of the party. Had any ladies been present, whose usual residence was in London? I could only remember Miss Clack as coming within this latter category.
What with the vexation about the dinner, and what with the provocation of the rogues coming back just in the nick of time to see the jewel with their own eyes, I own I lost my head. The first thing that I remember noticing was the sudden appearance on the scene of the Indian traveller, Mr. Murthwaite.
Add to this, that I met with the celebrated traveller, Mr. Murthwaite, the day afterwards, and that I held a conversation with him on the subject of the Moonstone, which has a very important bearing on later events. And there you have the statement of my claims to fill the position which I occupy in these pages.
Murthwaite expressed HIS opinion that they were a wonderful people. Mr. Franklin, expressing no opinion at all, brought us back to the matter in hand. "They have seen the Moonstone on Miss Verinder's dress," he said. "What is to be done?" "What your uncle threatened to do," answered Mr. Murthwaite. "Colonel Herncastle understood the people he had to deal with.
However, they had the merit of seeing for themselves that they had taken a false step for, as you say, again, with plenty of time at their disposal, they never came near the house for weeks afterwards." "Why, Mr. Murthwaite? That's what I want to know! Why?" "Because no Indian, Mr. Bruff, ever runs an unnecessary risk. Very well. Tell me which was the safest course for men in their position?
Murthwaite the well-known traveler in India, who discovered the lost diamond called "the Moonstone," set in the forehead of a Hindoo idol. He writes to the editor as follows: "Sir I can tell you something of the two Jesuit priests who were the sole survivors of the massacre in the Santa Cruz Valley four months since.
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