Did he tell you who he was ?" "The passport discloses that," answered Roland; "he desired only a decent funeral." "Ah!" said the mayor, taking out the passport, "an English traveller; name Roland Sefton; and these letters, and these portraits--they will be enough for identification." "He said he had no friends or family in England," pursued Roland, "and there is no address among his letters.

He told me he came from India." "Then there need be no delay about the interment," remarked the mayor, "if he had no family in England, and was just come from India.

Bah! we could not keep him till any friends came from India.

It is enough.

We must make an inquiry; but the corpse cannot be kept above ground.