The Moonstone plot unfolds in London and Verinder house
In a tale of the moonstone theft, Franklin Blake, Rachel Verinder, and detectives chase suspects from India to London. Opium induced sleep scenes reveal the diamond’s hiding place and a bank watch targets Luker while Briff and Bruff pursue clues, tapping Rosanna and Luker as suspects.
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John Horncastie
Seringapatam
Gabriel Betteredge
Julia
Verinder
Franklin Blake
Penelope
Betteredge
Franklin
London
Rachel
Colonel Horncastle
Mr. Muthwaite
Seegrave
Rosanna Spearman
Cuff
Rosanna
Miss Verinder
Godfrey
Braff
Boelfelter Braff
Hin
Worn
Mr. Candy
Retteredge
Betteretze
Mr. Brot
Mr. Blake
Mr. Bruff
Mr. Rinker
Bin
Mr. Broff
Mr. Luker
Esra Jennings
Bruff
Lombard Street
Mr. Bruit
Mr. Linker
Mr. Fruits
London Train Plans After Prosecution Discovery
A lawyer urges urgency to return to London by the ten o clock train to secure Franklin Blake for a potential appeal. Bruff departs after seeking support, Betteredge sees Blake still asleep, and observers note that all have departed for London by ten o’clock.
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Franklin Blake
Hood
Sin
London
Betteredge
Bile
Mr. Blake
Humorous Clips and Quips From Silly Street Panels
A collection of cartoonish dialogue and captions from a Pittsburgh Post crowd scene and a separate Exchange gag. The pieces revolve around prankish lines about small men and a Venus de Milo joke, followed by a floor manager and salesman exchange about a malfunctioning cash register.
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Venus de Milo
Pittsburgh Post
Gentlemen Refuse to Move on Trolley Ride
The police conductor asks the man to move up, he refuses with a gruff reply. The exchange is logged in a humorous slice of daily life from Buffalo News and Louisville Courier-Journal via Plain Eight.
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Mr. Grouch
Buffalo News
Louisville Courier-Journal
They Speak No More About Proposals
Dialogue from a homely exchange shows Belle teasing about men at proposals and a wife recounting her husband’s foolish behavior. A doctor’s daily calls are framed as a debt collector in a light moment from the St Louis Globe Democrat.
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Mr. Braff
Belle
St Louis Globe, Democrat
Foul Blow
A dialogue snippet shows a scene where suspicion and trust clash as a character questions another’s ability to keep secrets while another character defends past confidences in a Boston Transcript context.
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Alice
Mario
Boston Transcript
Boy kept at school grows into office detainee
In The New York Bug, a brief snippet notes that the boy kept in at school later becomes the man detained at the office. The report hints at a shift from scholastic confinement to workplace restraint.
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Bocker
New. York
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Pa- Pere
Soos
Mins Verinder
Lence
Lincett
Franklin Make
Nooo Ui
Sweeney
Policeman
Hie
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