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The Moonstone

CHAPTER X
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Send the Diamond to-morrow (under guard of more than one man) to be cut up at Amsterdam.
Make half a dozen diamonds of it, instead of one.

There is an end of its sacred identity as The Moonstone--and there is an end of the conspiracy." Mr.Franklin turned to me.
"There is no help for it," he said.

"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 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.


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