Where is Joyce ?" We both called for Joyce, and received no answer.

I sent one of the stable-boys to look for him.
"You heard what I said to Miss Verinder ?" remarked the Sergeant, while we were waiting.

"And you saw how she received it?
I tell her plainly that her leaving us will be an obstacle in the way of my recovering her Diamond--and she leaves, in the face of that statement! Your young lady has got a travelling companion in her mother's carriage, Mr.
Betteredge--and the name of it is, the Moonstone." I said nothing.

I only held on like death to my belief in Miss Rachel.
The stable-boy came back, followed--very unwillingly, as it appeared to me--by Joyce.
"Where is Rosanna Spearman ?" asked Sergeant Cuff.
"I can't account for it, sir," Joyce began; "and I am very sorry.

But somehow or other----" "Before I went to Frizinghall," said the Sergeant, cutting him short, "I told you to keep your eyes on Rosanna Spearman, without allowing her to discover that she was being watched.