Back in London, Mr. Bruff has tracked the diamond from Septimus Luker to a sailor with a dark complexion. When Franklin and Sergeant Cuff locate the sailor, the man has been killed. The sailor is Godfrey Ablewhite, disguised. Cuff correctly determines that Godfrey has been leading a double life. Franklin, under in the influence of opium, had given the gem to Godfrey after taking it from Rachel's room and asked Godfrey to store it safely in his father's bank. Godfrey had kept the gem and pawned it for money and had just redeemed it and was planning to take it to Europe to be cut up and sold. He had been killed by the Indians, who have returned to India with the Moonstone and restored it to the forehead of their idol