or chapel at Tichborne,” which he said he would only build under the conditions mentioned in a paper which he had left in the hands of his dearest and most trusted friend, Mr. Gosford, the steward of the family estates.  In truth, months before the day when he gave Miss Doughty a copy of “The Vow” in the garden at Tichborne, he had solemnly signed and sealed up a compact with his own conscience, and deposited it with other precious mementoes of that time in his friend’s safe keeping.  Parting with friends in England cost him, perhaps, but little sorrow, for his mind was full of projects to be carried into effect on his return.  He aspired to the character of a traveller, and to be qualified for membership at the Travellers’ Club, where, in one of his letters while abroad, he requests that his name may be inscribed as a candidate.  He had an old habit of keeping diaries, and he promised to send extracts, and, after all, the time would not be long.  There was one house in which Roger naturally shrank from saying farewell.  He had made a solemn resolution that he would go to Tichborne no more while matters remained thus, and his pride was wounded by what appeared to him to be a want of confidence on the part of Lady Doughty.  In a worldly point of view it is difficult to conceive any union more desirable than that of the two cousins.  But it is clear that the mother trembled for the future of her child.  Hence she still gave ready ear to tales of the wild life of the regiment, and hinted them in her letters to her nephew in a way that made him angry, but not vindictive.  He was asked to go and see his uncle, Sir Edward, before starting; but his will was inflexible, and he went away, as he had all along said that he would, resolved to bury his sorrows within himself.  Roger went away in February, and spent nearly three weeks in Paris with his parents and some old friends of his early days.  His mother was much averse to his plan of travelling; and she opposed it both by her own upbraidings, and by the persuasion of spiritual advisers who had influence over her son.  But it was of no avail.  Roger had chosen to sail in a French vessel from Havre—­“La Pauline”—­and sail he would.  His voyage to Valparaiso was to last four months, and thence he was going on in the same vessel to Peru.  It was doubtless because of the strong hold which the French language and many French manners still had on him, that, though he took an English servant with him, he preferred a French ship with a French captain and French seamen.  On the 1st of March, 1853, he sailed away from Europe, and, as we are bound to believe, never returned.  The “Pauline” started with bad weather, which detained her in the Channel, and compelled her to put in at Falmouth, but after that she made a good voyage round Cape Horn to Valparaiso, where she arrived on the 19th of June.  As the vessel was to remain there a month, Roger, after spending a week in Valparaiso, started with his servant John Moore to see Santiago, the capital