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 CHAPTER XVIII.

SAN DIEGO PLAN ALVARADO AND CARRILLO.

1837.

JUAN BANDINI had followed the advice of Oslo to &quot;go home and keep quiet,&quot; so far at least that the records are silent about him from December 1836 to May 1837. During this period he lived on his frontier rancho, and spent all the time which troublesome Indians left at his disposal in plotting against Alvarado s government, or rather in devising schemes by virtue of which, when Mexican supremacy should be fully restored, his own agency in bringing about that result might be so apparent as to obtain proper recognition and reward. He had an understanding with Captain Portilla and other prominent men at San Diego; while across the line, in full sympathy with Don Juan, was Captain Zamorano, who after his voluntary exile at the fall of Gutierrez, had found his way back to La Frontera. Zamorano, like Bandini (515)