named Guilfoyle at Sydney, who had been gardener for many years at Upton and Tichborne, and another man in the same town named Andrew Bogle, a black man, who had been in the service of Sir Edward.  Mr. Gibbes’s client lost no time in finding out both these persons, and soon became pretty well primed.  It was shortly after this period that it became known in Victoria and New South Wales that there was a man named Thomas Castro, living in Wagga-Wagga as a journeyman slaughter-man and butcher, who was going to England to lay claim to the baronetcy and estates of Tichborne.  From the letters and other facts it is manifest that it was originally intended to keep all this secret even from the Dowager.  “He wishes,” says his attorney, Mr. Gibbes, “that his present identity should be totally disconnected from his future.”  It happened that one Cator, a Wagga-Wagga friend of the Claimant, whose letters show him to have been a coarse-minded and illiterate man, was leaving for England shortly before the time that Castro had determined to embark.  Whether invited or not Cator was not unlikely to favour his friend with a visit in the new and flourishing condition which appeared to await him in that country.  Perhaps to make a virtue of necessity, Castro gave to Cator a sealed envelope, bearing outside the words, “To be open when at sea,” and inside a note which ran as follows:—­

                              “WAGGA-WAGGA, April 2nd, 1866. 
     Mr. Cater,—­At any time wen you are in England you should
     feel enclined for a month pleasure Go to Tichborne, in
     Hampshire, Enquire for Sir Roger Charles Tichborne,
     Tichborne-hall, Tichborne, And you will find One that will
     make you a welcome guest.  But on no account Mension the Name
     of Castro or Alude to me being a Married Man, or that I have
     being has a Butcher.  You will understand me, I have no
     doubt.  Yours truely, Thomas Castro.  I Sail by the June
     Mail.”

All this secrecy, however, was soon given up as impracticable for articles in the Melbourne, Wagga-Wagga, and Sydney journals, quickly brought the news to England, and finally Castro determined to take with him his wife and family.  One of his earliest steps was to take into his service the old black man Bogle, and pay the passage-money both of himself and his son to Europe with him.  Certain relics of Upton and of Tichborne which the Claimant forwarded to a banker at Wagga-Wagga from whom he was trying to obtain advances, were described by the Claimant himself as brought over by “my uncle Valet who is now living with me.”  The bankers, however, were cautious; and “declined to make loans.”  Nevertheless, the Claimant had the good fortune to convince a Mr. Long, who was in Sydney, and had seen Roger “when a boy of ten years old riding in Tichborne Park,” and accordingly this gentleman advanced him a considerable sum.  Finally the Claimant embarked aboard the