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Chapter 23

I had kept the pony's shades ready in case Mr. Franklin persisted in leaving us by train that night.

The appearance of the luggage followed downstairs by Mr. Franklin himself

inform me plainly enough that he'd held firm to a resolution for once in his life.

So you've really made up your mind, sir, I said, as we met in the hall.

Why not wait a day or two longer and give Miss Rachel another chance?

The foreign varnish appeared to have all worn off, Mr. Franklin, now that the time had come for saying goodbye.

Instead of applying to mean words, he put the letter which our ladieship had addressed to him into my hand.

The greater part of it said over again what had been said already and the other communication received by me.

But there is a bit about Miss Rachel added at the end which will account for the steadiness of Mr. Franklin's determination if it accounts for nothing else.

You will wonder, I dare say, her ladieship wrote, at my allowing my own daughter to keep me perfectly in the dark.

A diamond worth twenty thousand pounds has been lost, and I am left infer that the mystery of its disappearance is no mystery to Rachel,

and that some incomprehensible obligation of silence has been laid on her by some person or person's utterly unknown to me with some object in view at which I cannot even guess.

Is it conceivable that I should allow myself to be trifled with in this way?

It is quite conceivable in Rachel's present state.

She is in a condition of nervous agitation pitiful to see.

I dare not approach the subject of the moonstone again until time has done something to quiet her.

To help this end I have not hesitated to dismiss the police officer.

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