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 Revillagigedo — The false merchant and the lady — The Viceroy, the unjust Spaniard, the Indian, and the golden ounces — Horrible murder — Details — Oath — Country family — The spot of blood — The mother unknowingly denounces her son — Arrest of the three — Confession — Execution — The Viceroy fulfils his pledge — Paving of the streets — Severity to the monks — Solitary damsel — Box on the ear — Pension — Morning concert — New Minister — "Street of the sad Indian" — Traditions — A farewell audience — Inscription on a tomb.

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of fortune, owing to some combination of circumstances, found herself in difficulties, and in immediate want of a small sum of money. Don being her compadre, and a respectable merchant, she went to him to state her necessities, and offered him a case of valuable jewels as security for repayment, provided he would advance her eight hundred dollars. He agreed, and the bargain was concluded without any written document, the lady depositing her jewels and receiving the sum. At the end of a few months, her temporary difficulties being ended, she went to her compadre's house to repay the money, and receive back her jewels. The man readily received the money, but declared to his astonished comadre, that as to the jewels, he had never heard of them, and that no such transaction had taken place. The Señora, indignant