He was advised that he must take his wife away and live at Naples because of this man,--that he must banish himself entirely if he chose to repossess himself of his wife and child;--and yet nothing could be done to the unprincipled rascal by whom all his wrongs and sufferings were occasioned! Thinking it very possible that Colonel Osborne would follow his wife, he had a watch set upon the Colonel.

He had found a retired policeman,--a most discreet man, as he was assured,--who, for a consideration, undertook the management of interesting jobs of this kind.

The man was one Bozzle, who had not lived without a certain reputation in the police courts.

In these days of his madness, therefore, he took Mr.Bozzle into his pay; and after a while he got a letter from Bozzle with the Exeter post-mark.

Colonel Osborne had left London with a ticket for Lessboro'.