he could not recall the expression of Roger Tichborne’s features,” he had no doubt, from the knowledge which the Claimant had shown of the neighbourhood of Tichborne and of family matters, that he was the same person.  All Alresford may, in fact, be said to have been converted; the bells were rung on the Claimant’s arrival there; and Colonel Lushington, the tenant of Tichborne house, invited the Australian stranger and his wife to stay with him there.  Colonel Lushington had never seen Roger Tichborne, but he has explained that he was impressed by his visitor’s knowledge of the old pictures on the walls, which, it will be remembered, Bogle had been sent by “Mr. Taylor” to reconnoitre.  When the news came that “Sir Roger’s wife,” on a visit with her husband to Col.  Lushington, had had a child baptised in the chapel at Tichborne, while Mr. Anthony Biddulph, another convert, and a remote connection of the Tichborne family, had become godfather, the bells of Alresford rang louder; and nobody seemed for a moment to doubt the right of the Claimant to the estates and title.  Still it was felt strange that “Sir Roger” went near none of his old friends.  He had left Paris without an effort to see his former circle of acquaintances.  Chatillon, his early tutor, had been brought by the Dowager there to see him; but Chatillon had said, “Madame, this is not your son!” Neither the Abbe Salis, nor Roger’s dear old instructor, Father Lefevre, nor Gossein, the faithful valet, who had played with him from childhood, and had known him well as a man, nor, indeed, any person in Paris who had been acquainted with Roger Tichborne, received a visit.  In England the facts were the same.  The stranger would go nowhere, and at last it began to be believed that he was afraid of detection.

Active measures were meanwhile in preparation for those legal proceedings which have, within the past three years, occupied so large a share of public attention.  Mr. Holmes and many others were busy in procuring information.  The voluminous will of Roger Tichborne, setting forth a mass of particulars about the family property, was examined at Doctors’ Commons.  Then there were records of proceedings in the Probate Court and in Chancery relating to the Tichborne estates, of which copies were procured.  The Horse Guards furnished the indefatigable attorney with minute and precise statements of the movements of the Carabineers during Roger Tichborne’s service, and of the dates of every leave of absence and return.  Then the Dowager’s attorney procured from Stonyhurst lists of the professors and officials during Roger’s three years’ study there; and finally, the books of Lloyd’s and the “Merchant Seamen’s Register” were searched for information about the movements of the “Pauline,” the “Bella,” and other vessels.  Coincident with these researches, there was a marked improvement in the Claimant’s knowledge of the circumstances of what he alleged to be his own past life.  There was no mention