urselves, that you are of Italian parentage, and
that you have never had any right to the name that you have borne for
four-and-twenty years. This was suspicion when I saw you last; it is
certainty now. We have found the woman Vincenza, who is your mother. She
has told us her story, and it is one which even your English courts of
law will find it difficult to disprove. She acknowledges that she
changed the two children; that, when one of her twins died, she thought
that she could benefit the other by putting it in the place of the
English child. Her own baby, Bernardino, was brought up by the Luttrell
family and called Brian Luttrell. That was yourself.

"How about the English boy, the real heir to the property? I told you
about him when you were with us; I offered to let you see him: I wanted
you to know him. You declined; I think you were wrong. You did see him
many a time; you were friendly with him, although you did not know the
connection that existed between you. I believe that you will remember
him when I tell you that he was known in the monastery as Brother Dino.
Dino Vasari was the name by which he had been known; but I think that
you never learnt his surname. He had a romantic affection for you, and
was grieved when you refused to meet the man who had so curious a claim
upon your notice. I sent him away from the monastery in a few days, as
you will perhaps remember; I knew that if he saw much of you, not even
my authority, my influence, would induce him to keep the secret of his
birth--from you. You are rivals, certainly; you might be enemies; and,
just because that cause of rivalry and enmity subsists, Dino Vasari
loves you with his whole soul. If you stood in your old position, even I
could not persuade him to dispossess you; but you have voluntarily given
it up. Your property has gone to your cousin, and Dino has now no
scruple about claiming his rights. Now that Vincenza Vasari's evidence
has been obtained, it is thought well that he should make the story
public, and try to get his position acknowledged. Therefore he is
starting for England, where he will arrive on the eighteenth of the
month. He has his orders, and he will obey them. It is perhaps well that
you should know what they are. He is to proceed at once to Scotland, and
obtain interviews as soon as possible with Mr. Colquhoun and Mrs.
Luttrell. He will submit his claims to them, and ascertain the line that
they will take. After that, he will put