■■Mgjg_|____________—j___ __!__; (Continued from third fast.) in an open boat, Passing as a Genoese fisherman, lie then remained at Gorgona till the eDd of July, taking employment in the anchovy-fishing, and earning his weekly wtt"c like any other of the "chance hands" who run accrbss from the mainland at that season. Thence, having sold his boat, he went on to Corsica and Sardinia; and, by and by, crossed from Cagliari to Corfu, and from Corfu to Brindisi. All this he did in pursuance of a fixed plan • that plan being to purchase a mer chant-vessel, and take up for good and all, with the lite of an ocean-trader. "And have you no home on terra-firma." asked Mr Marrables, when so much was told- , • * a. But Lord Brackenhury, instead of reply ing to this question, went back to the sub ject of his first enquiries. Then Mr Marrables stated all he knew, and showed him copies of the corres pondence between himself and the firm of Fawcctt and Clarke. " And there is really a claimant ?" " So it seems—the man calling himself Compton, and putting up in Macclesfield. Now, it he has actually placed in Fawcett and Clarke's hands the paper named in their letter, and if those papers are genuine, how did he come by them ? Where were all those letters and biils, where were those inven tories of the diamonds, when you left your travelling-carriage." "In my black bag, on the floor, beside where I was sitting." " You are sure of that ?" "As sure as that lam here, I left them there on purpose." " And you took nothing with you ?" '• Nothing but the diamonds and money in my belt, and two small miniatures- Lancelot's and my mother's." " Can you remember whether there were any other letters in the bag, besides your brother's and Lady. I mean, Miss Savage's?" "Yes; there were some from Mellor, Dead? poor fellow ! I am sorry to hearthat. 