Yes! after the lapse of eight centuries, the Moonstone looks forth once more, over the walls of the sacred city in which its story first began.  How it has found its way back to its wild native land—­by what accident, or by what crime, the Indians regained possession of their sacred gem, may be in your knowledge, but is not in mine.  You have lost sight of it in England, and (if I know anything of this people) you have lost sight of it for ever.

So the years pass, and repeat each other; so the same events revolve in the cycles of time.  What will be the next adventures of the Moonstone?  Who can tell?