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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 226, 10 January 1885, Page 8

and-, reserving the feeble old life of Sir Roger,' until thejalast, he proceeded to New Zealand with the intention of next despatching the Colonel. He soon became aware that Tomkyns was a fellow passenger, and guessing, or rather fearing, his intentions, watched every movement of his . vigilantly and secretly. The forged letter -'.which. he had given the Colonel professed to ■prove him a distant connection of the family ijhrough Marian Montmorenci, whom he claimed as a cousin of very remote degree ; Jput, of course, he very carefully hid his real name and relationship. Alter his first niid- * night attempt at assassinating Tomkyns, he had spent several hours in reconnoitring the Colonel's grounds, and, disguised as a pedlar, in cultivating the acquaintance of the old Maori servant, from whom he had contrived to extract some valuable information. He had caught meanwhile many glimpses of * Eulalie, and really fell madly in love with her. It did not take him long to lay his plans. How he carried them out regarding her, with the assistance of the woman he had bribed to help him, has already been related ; and it was during the few minutes he was absent from Eulalie, ostensibly to seek her father's permission for their excursion, that he had broken into the treasury, stolen the jewels, and nearly murdered the Colonel. Frustrated, however, in his designs, as he had been thereafter, he had formed the diabolical plan of burning the house, and, if possible, the Colonel with it ; and was lying in wait for a suitable hour when Tomkyns appeared on the scene. Knowing the latter to be his successful rival, he could not forego the chance of putting him out of the way, but in his eagerness he forgot to be cautious, land thus brought about his own fate. Nothing was now wanting to complete the happiness of Tomkyns and Eulalie but an immediate union. With their enemy disposed of, the missing jewels restored, and wealth beyond all their expectations, no further obstacle remained, and. accordingly the marriage took ploce before the world was three months older in a certain fashionable church in the city. As Eulalie's future destiny lay in England, the Colonel accompanied them thither to find himself upon his arrival the possessor of the title and estate. Sir Roger having died only a few days paevious. As time passed on the Colonel had the satisfacof seeing that the defects of Eulalie's early training were rapidly wearing away, and that in spite of his forebodings, she was becoming an ornament instead of a disgrace to the p.-sraltfifl snhfirp. hi wTnr.h she was now nlaced.