The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27

1 paper to a man behind a desk, receive
 small package in return and go out. | his way out Luker brushed against spoke to several men. As Mir. Brul had arranged, these men were all fol- lowed
 A bright boy in Bruffs employ followed
 a man dressed like a sailor and evidently l disguised. He soon noticed that the sal l Tor was followed by a thin, dark man. | plainly an East Indian. The boy traced
 the sailor to the waterside, heard him en- | gage passage on steamer which was to
 sail the next day for Amsterdam, and l then saw him go to d lodging house for | the night.
 When the boy reported Blake and Brufr l hurried to the lodging house. They found it in commotion. The stranger had been 1 murdered in his bed by some one who had obtained entrance to the house by means l of a skylight in the roof. When Frank lin Blake looked at the body from which 1 the disguise had been removed he started back with an exclamation. The murdered | man was Godfrey AbelWhte. On the table by the side of the dead
 man was an empty box It had once con- tained the Moonstone. Franklin knew, | for in that box it had been when he took | 1t from the bank and carried 1t to Rachel. l "1'he Moon-God claims his own said
 Blake as he and Brun left the place to- l gether.
 Yes" replied Bruff eand one of those | East Indians followed him to this place. | The appointed of Vishnu work in London l lodging houses. But we will see what ] Scotland Yard can do against him who 1 sitteth on the Antelope"
 Scotland Yard could do nothing. Tl1e | Indians were traced to India and there ] disappeared But as for the other part l of the story. which more particularly
 pertained to England and the century. l Mir. Brun found way or forcing Mir l Luker to tell what he knew about the l Moonstone Godfrey Abelwhte had 1 pledged the gem with Luller. Buker. | like foxey man. had forced Godfrey 1 to tell true story before he would ad- | vance the mone,,.
 The pious Abe white had been living a
 double life. He had used funds belonging
 to an estate of which he was trustee. ] When he went to Lady Verinder's to at- 1 tend the birthday dnner he was facing | an accounting By accident he had seen l Franklin Blake leave nis room while in 1 the laudanum trance and had followed him. When Blake returned to his room l Godfrey confronted him. Glake placed the Moonstone in Godfrcs's Lands, say ing in dreamy voice. ''ralie it hack to
 your fathers bank. Godfrey it is aafer | there" Then he had fallen his bed | in a stupor s= ssssfs
 1 Godfrey knew that Dr. Candy had ad- l ministered laudanum to Franklin. and he 1 suspected the truth Next morning when /. Blake had no recollection of the events l of the night Godfrey yielded to tempts
 ton. took the diamond To London and 1 pawned it with Luker. legacy which 1 he had received during the year enabled 1 him to redeem the gem at the appointed
 time, and he was on his way to Amster
 dam 10 have it cut up when he was mur- l dered. Franklin and Rachel were, of
 course, married and lived happy ever 1 after.
 l Subsequent to their wedding there came | a letter from Mr. Murthwaite, who was | again in India. He had deviated from
 his route, he said to visit the ruined city | of Somnauth. To his surprise he found | thousands of Indians assembled there for
 A feast of restoration. On a rocky plat | form, high on the mountain side. was q l great statue of the Moon God. Before i the idol bowed three men whom he had i last seen posing jugglers at Frizing- hall and gleamng and glowing to the l idols forehead was the yellow diamond | whose splendor had last shone upon him 1 in England from the bosom of a woman s | dress.
 Next Sundays One-Page Classic will
 be 'The Last of the Mohicans," by James l Fenimore Cooper.