22/27 Send the Diamond to-morrow (under guard of more than one man) to be cut up at Amsterdam. There is an end of its sacred identity as The Moonstone--and there is an end of the conspiracy." Mr.Franklin turned to me. "We must speak to Lady Verinder to-morrow." "What about to-night, sir ?" I asked. "Suppose the Indians come back ?" Mr.Murthwaite answered me before Mr.Franklin could speak. "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. |