About a week after Rachel had left London to go back to Yorkshire, an unexpected visitor arrived at Mr Bruff's office. The man was tall and thin, very well-dressed in a fine suit, and dark-skinned. Mr Bruff did not usually agree to meet strangers in his office, but he supposed that the man was an Indian, and that he might know something about the Moonstone. (Mr Bruff had known the Moonstone for a long time; he had been colonel Herncastle's lawyer, and Bruff had arranged the Colonel's will which had left the diamond to Rachel.)