" Your head sank on
the back of the chair--you heaved a heavy sigh--and you fell asleep.
Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite went back, with the Diamond, into his own room.
His statement is, that he came to no conclusion, at that time--except
that he would wait, and see what happened in the morning.
When the morning came, your language and conduct showed that you were
absolutely ignorant of what you had said and done overnight. At the same
time, Miss Verinder's language and conduct showed that she was resolved
to say nothing (in mercy to you) on her side. If Mr. 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.
V
This was the story told by your cousin (under pressure of necessity) to
Mr. 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. 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.
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