Summary III.The Moonstone #1

The Moonstone was a diamond, set in the forehead a sacred statue of Hindu, god of the moon. It  it was said to be protected by hereditary guardians on the orders of Vishnu. Colonel Herncastle, an unpleasant former soldier, brought the Moonstone back with him from India where he had acquired it by theft and murder during the Siege of Seringapatam. Angry at his family, who shunned him, he left the diamond in his will as a birthday gift to his niece Rachel Verinder , thus exposing her to attack by the stone's hereditary guardians, who, legend said, woul stop at nothing to retrieve it. The narrator, a butler in Verinder's house began an eyewitness of the whole story with the Moonstone. Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, who was followed by three Indian jugglers on his way to the girl, gave this diamond Rachel at her birthday, but the next day it disappeared.