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Have you any recollection, my dear sir, of a semi-savage person whom you
met out at dinner, in London, in the autumn of 'forty-eight? Permit me
to remind you that the person's name was Murthwaite, and that you and
he had a long conversation together after dinner. The talk related to
an Indian Diamond, called the Moonstone, and to a conspiracy then in
existence to get possession of the gem.
Since that time, I have been wandering in Central Asia. Thence I have
drifted back to the scene of some of my past adventures in the north
and north-west of India. About a fortnight since, I found myself in
a certa
