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Rh "A few days subsequent to this adventure, we received sailing orders. After a long and tedious passage we arrived at Mexico; the disturbances were soon quelled, and the next year, I obtained leave to visit my family in Old Spain. Four days after my arrival at Cadiz, I received the following note, without signature:

"You see, that I am a man that keeps his word. I have been waiting now a twelvemonth for your return, at which I much rejoice. What discoveries have I to make to you! At nine o'clock I am at your lodgings."

Here the children interrupted Jago's narrative, by calling out: "Here comes father!" He had only time to add: "This is the man, Don Carlos!"—I was looking at my host with astonishment, and on the point of asking him, "What, do you know me?"—when in came the old man, who faithfully answered the description he had given of him. He approached the fire, and now and then, cast a melancholy look upon the wo-