Then she was adopted by a lady, the wife of an English colonel, who was stationed at the Cape.

She was taken by her adopted parents to England, where she grew up a very charming and pretty girl, and ultimately married a clergyman in Norfolk.

But I never saw her again, though we often wrote to each other.
Before I returned to the country of my birth, she too had been gathered to the land of shadows, leaving three children behind her.

Ah me! all this took place so long ago, when I was young who now am old.
Perhaps it may interest the reader to know the fate of Mr.Carson's property, which should of course have gone to his grandson Harry.

I wrote to England to claim the estate on his behalf, but the lawyer to whom the matter was submitted said that my marriage to Stella, not having been celebrated by an ordained priest, was not legal according to English law, and therefore Harry could not inherit.