borne, in a letter to Mr. Gibbes, had said that her son was for three years at the Jesuit College of Stonyhurst, in Lancashire. Mr. Gibbes, accordingly, suggested to his client, "in a humble station of life," that his memory was at fault on that point, but the client maintained his ground. "Did she say he had been at Stonyhurst Col· lege? If so, it was false;" and, he added, with an oath, "I have a good mind never to go near her again, for telling such a story." Still, this strange person was able to confirm the entire story of the tramping sailors. He had embarked in the Bella, he had been picked up at sea with other survivors, in a boat, off the coast of Brazil, and it was quite true that he was landed with them in Melbourne. In short, he corroborated the Dowager's long advertisement in every particular; but beyond that, he had nothing of the slightest importance to tell which was not absurdly incorrect. His replies, however, were forwarded to the Dowager, with pressing requests to send £200, then £250, and finally £400, to enable the lost. heir to pay his debts-an indispensable condition of his leaving the colony. It is evident that the statements thus reported puzzled the poor lady a little, and she seems to have been unable to account for the lost heir sending his kind remembrance to his "grandpa," because Roger Tichborne's paternal grandfather died before he was born; and his grandfather by the mother's side had also died several years before Roger had left England, as the young man knew well enough, for he took farewell of him on his last illness. She was clearly a little surprised to hear that the resuscitated Roger did not understand a word of French, for "my son," she says, "was born in Paris, and spoke French better than English." Still, she believed. "I fancied," she said in one letter to Gibbes, "that the photographics you sent me are like him, but, of course, after thirteen years' absence |