"Never more were they to look on each other's faces"

In Harper’s Weekly magazine, readers would look at the final illustration of The Moonstone series. It is of the three Indian Brahmins turned away from one another after the Moonstone had been returned to its place. The caption reads “Never more were they to look on each other’s faces” (Collins, 501). The men, after recovering their diamond were sentenced to pilgrimages and could not “rest on their wanderings” (Collins 503). They had to leave one another and set off individually. In this last installment of The Moonstone, the story ends as it begun: in India. The readers learn about what happened to the diamond after it left England as well as the way in which the Indians evaded capture by Sargent Cuff’s man. Furthermore, it ends with a suggestion that the Moonstone could be stolen again, just as it was stolen in the beginning of the novel. This final image of the Indians bring a focus to the imperialistic desires that initially brought the curse of the Moonstone. Britain’s imperialism is often criticized by Harper’s Weekly, yet in the August 8, 1868 edition of this magazine, America’s imperialism is demonstrated. Due to the rather unresolved final line of The Moonstone combined with the illustration that reminds readers of imperialism and greed, Harper’s Weekly demonstrates its own imperialistic undertones and contrasts Leverenz and Knox.