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ANSWER TO “DINNA FORGET.” through the deserted streets like doomed men meee

And did t Dinna forget ? the contact of their fellows as if it had been a city

nd did ye say unto me, Dinn: : at : oe ama enpeenen se to th ; It was at the beginning of this reign of terrorism, and See ena eno vo = _ the morning after the ball at Senora ‘l’ertulia’s, that our Seen tiaald cis- bo: agetion S7:me- friend Tom Thorne awoke in a room by no means so Ye never hae loved me—ye ne’er could love

snug, airy, or odorous as his own well-appointed bed- Ane whom ye could e’en suspect would e’er rove ?

‘chamber in the Calle Derecho. Close_ beside him, Qh, why did ye wrong me sae—why did ye let busily engaged in brushing his clothes with his hands, Our pasting be marred by that “ dinna forget.”

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and alternately muttering maledictions against sangul- nary Spaniards, and mumbling over odds and ends of old songs,was a strong-built ruddy-looking gentleman of abou! iwenty-eight or thirty. oe

‘Holla, Griffin” cried Tom, ‘where the deuce 1s this, and how came you here” | ‘Faith, Mr. Thorne, I came here for much the same jreason as you did; and, though not in a very creditable place, Ican thank my stars I’m in good company any how.’

‘ But how came we here, Griffin ?

‘Faith, Thorne, except your nerves are very steady (and in virtue of Senora Tertulia’s champagne, mine are not) I think it would be as well to defer that same story until you have shaved, or you may run the risk of hav-

Had I loved thee less kindly, less deeply and true, I might then hae expected suspicion frae you ;

But have I by word or by action e’er Jet

You believe for a moment that I could forget.

You know full well lassie my heart has been thine, | Sin’ the days 0’ our childhood—the days o’ lang syne— And nae true son o’ Scotland e’er brak his faith yet,

Or needed the warning o’ “dinna forget.”

Charlottetown, 1848.

TOM THORNE.

A TALE OF THE MASORCH{A CLUB, AT BUENOS AYRES. CHAPTER Iii.

for your throat last night. 1 nora’s about the same time you did. They say the cool air ia refreshing, but { never found it so after drinking

About the time our story commences, 1841, Rosas champagne. Well, as I was stumbling along, I fell over was beginning that system of terrorism, espionage, con- a body stretched across the pavement. ‘You have taken fiscation and secret assassination, which has since made mighty Convenient quarters for a cold night, thought I, his government so notorious abroad snd so dreaded at)‘ bad luck to you; and, intending to do him a good turn, home. ‘I'he Monto Videans were in his province of as I might require it myself soon, I was trying to raise

Santa Fe, in the north; and his political opponents, the| him up, when two men, who were standing in the sha- Unitarians,* were supposed to be plotting in the capital: dow of a door-way, within a foot of me, cried, ‘ Hist, but Rosas was not the man to stick to the common modes hist, passa adelante, amigo.’ ‘Come and help me with of war. If he could not inspire confidence among this poor devil here, said I. ‘Pass a head, friend, if friends, he could at jeast inspire terror among his foes. you do not want the same accommodation,’ said they, A club, calling themselves the friends of public secu- throwing the light of a dark lantern suddenly, and only rity, the sons of liberty, or some such name, but called! for a moment, on the object of my attention. If required by others * Masorcheros,’ was established, and many en-/no second bidding, Thorne. The pavement was soft rolled themselves in this murderous body to save them- and warm enough for a corpse! My first thought was selves. Rosas betook himself to the encampment he) for a pistol or a stick, but I had neither. I looked at the called the ‘sacros lugares,’ holy places; and thence|men—there they stood, as cool and careless as the door- issued secret orders to his myrmidons, to whose fury the | posts, and me fixed staring at them as if they had been town was completely abandoned. There are few chee pages in the modern annals of them, drawing a knife at the same time. ‘This brought South America than the records of the month of Octo-|me to my senses, and I passed on, and, mark me, Thorne, ber, 1841, and April, 1842, in the devoted town of Buenos as sober as a judge. Ayres. Rosas, himself seccure amid his savage soldiery, | issued his secret death-roll. _ |keep their watch at the door-post, when who should I The chief of the Masorcheros, anxious to secure their! overtake but yourself, walking as proud as a prince and own safety, rivalled each other in their zeal to capture;'as bold asa lion. We did not walk far till three men ~ the wore ae itself was intrusted to hands whose met us, one of whom threw the light of his dark-lantern trade was blood. full into your face, scanning it fora few seconds with Without trial, for offences, without warrants for asia Seiden than manners. Although dezzied and —— enenhanee a poomeaae of SORE NOS stupified by the light, I saw you grasping your stick, and were openly entered, men massacred, women Hogged, beginning to break our, when I interposed. ‘ Gentle- and property destroyed ; victims were decoyed out by men, said I, in my best Spanish (for it ts always best to friends, from theatres and ball-rooms ; men were follow-| be civil), ‘Gentlemen, said I, ‘we are English gentle- ed in the streets, and stabbed at their own doors; and men whohave lost our way. I'll give you fifty dollars,* concerted signals were arranged to tell the police carts, and thanks to boot, if you please to take us to the police ‘that wandered about the streets at night, where to find office.’ You appeared inclined to show fight at the out the victims. We shall not give any more harrassing mention of the police office, but I passed it off as if you details here. ‘had more money than sense, and promised them fifty There is no doubt that there were more massacres from you too; so after a slight struggle we secured you, committed than ever were ordered by authority; the and here we are, without any solut.ons of continuity, as machinery of murder, once set aguing, revolved of itself, | surgeons say, except in our raiment.’ and knives were sometimes made to settle old quarrels) But why did you not tell them to take us to my house?” and long accounts. Rosas, when he found things going said Thorne. on too far, easily put a stop to them by disposing of | Why, in the first place,’ said Griffin, ‘I have not the some of the Masorcheros themselves, among others, the honour of knowing where you live; and, by Castor and chief, who was thus forever prevented from telling any Pollux! I would not have left you with those ruffians for tales against his master. ‘a world of coppers.’ Such unheard-of and unexpected scenes suddenly oc-| ‘ Butthen the disgrace of being lodged in the prison curring in the midst of a happy, prosperous, and orderly |all night ? nein city, were accompanied by strange anomalies. Foreign-| ‘ As for that,’ said the imperturable Griffin, ‘ in my ers could scarcely conceive the existence of a regular opinion the prisons will soon be fuller than the hotels in at = eee Natives, not yet schooled | this city; and wherever you and I cendescend to take onnaieas Serene —o ne perhaps not even up our quarters becomes de ipso facto respectable,’ ey eae 7 no a at once, throw aside, ‘ Well, well, Griffin, it’s no use telling you to keep it Tho chesaanaal ae ny quiet, but don’t tell the ladies of it, at any rate.’ wate cin onain artes eir usual services, oI Don’t trouble yourself, Thorne~I won't be such a diet,” WEA You caine mae no a in the bearas that. But by the way Gog and Magog, 8 Pma sala eikonal Fn ce ed as usual. Inisters sinner, were standing either at or close by Mendoza’s played their flags, and ballsand din- door: they could not be watching for any of them, could oo ae as numerously attended as ever; and those they 2 p okie trent? lym sooth ona to ee is eres fear” said Thorne; ‘Mendoza is very thick samy who heowihGRa Abdio a re and wit the Government; at all events he was not at the iaiiineda eee oan ee e fearfu goings-| party, and the ladies are sure to be well convoyed.’ norance or indifference their ese lie pret S| Just as they were talking, a messenger came from the iliseeethn caensaieiians policy. ‘commissary of police, te summon them to the presence y until the frequency of of Soren into whose dread presence they were immediately ushered. The Commissary (a stout, healthy-looking man about

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principles—that is, the separate legislative independence abjenadte age) sat smoking a cigarito, dressed in a red each province of the Confederation; but in fact he has made himself a Unitarian, since he ‘unites’ in himself (« by extraor- dinary powers,’ given to him only fora season but retained ever since) a supremacy over the other provinces, and over the law

** Unitarian,’ in the political dictionary of South America, is

Rosas pretends to govern on Federal

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ing some of the cuts in your face which were intended You see, sir, I left La Se-

'Gog and Magog. ‘Passa adelante,’ growled out one of

‘Well, sir, off I started, leaving Gog and Magog to.

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waistcoat, a braided jacket, and a siouching cap with broad gilt band; from a button-hole of his jacket was the usual red ribbon with the head of Rosas upon it, and the favourite motto which he had caused to be inscribed on the national colours, and over every proclamation, *Vivan los Federales—mueran !os salvages mundos ascherosas Unitarios.”* He was listening attentively to the infur- mation given by a very precise, trim, well-dressed look- ing youth, if we might call him so, for his dress betokened youth more than his face, which at that moment appear- ed particularly pale. The conversation, whatever wag its nature, appeared to be taken notes of by a clerk, who Was sitting near them, and it dropped the moment they entered ; whether it was that Thorne, who was the first to enter, had still the sound of Mendoza buzzing in his ears, or that, in the excited state of his nervous system, he was thinking of the frightful scene committed at his doors, certain it is, that on his appearance, Don Felipe Le Brun started and appeared agitated for a moment, and our friend thought he heard the name of Mendoza.

‘Sorry to meet you here,’ exclaimed Don Felipe, sud- denly recovering from his start. ‘CanI be of any ser- vice, sir? Ifso,command me.’

‘I am sorry to meet you here, sir,’ said Thorne in Ger- man, so as not to be understood by the Commissary, and viewing Le Brun with a keen and inquisitive look; ‘1 am sorry to find that you have such private business in these quarters. Pray, Senor, he continued to the ma- gistrate, who appeared on the point of interrupting him, ‘do not allow me or my friend to disturb your correspon- dence with Don Felip Le Brun.’

‘My business with you, Senor Thorne,’ said the ma- gistrate, ‘is confined to giving you the advice, which you may find of use, to keep more orderly hours, and thus you will save the police the trouble of providing you with night quarters. I have no camplaint against you—you may go.’

Most men living in a community where a magistrate is not only the instrument but the interpreter of the Jaw, and where there is no free press or public opinion to ex- pose the injustice or temper the insolence of power, would have gladly and immediately availed themselves of the magisterial permission to withdraw, with thanks for the leniency extended to them. But Mr. Thorne was neither a selfish man nora timid; and his wes not the disposition humbly to accept that as a favour which he did not conceive could be withheld from him as a right, He knew that the most arrogant and imperative of the natives were only so to those who cringed to them as they themselves cringed to their superiors. As a proud and independant man, and a good citizen, he resolved to let the proud official know ofthe scene witnessed by his friend the preceding night; and he had hopes, by so doing, either to confirm or allay his suspicions of the nature of Brun’s communication with the Juez de Paz. He therefore answered with a bold front--

‘Ithank the Senor Juez de Paz for his counsel, and I beg to inform him, that the officers of the police could scarcely be better, and have been much worse employ- ed than affording protection to those who demanded it on a night like the last.’

The official started up—his eyes sparkling, his face suffused with passion. Before he could speak, Mr. Thorne proceeded—

‘Sir, as a respectable citizen of this city, as an acere- dited consular agent to this gevernment, I think it my duty to report to you, one of its chief magistrates, that last night a man was found murdered on the pavement in front of Mendoza’s house, and two men standing close beside him; and these men, Signor Jucz de Paz, were dressed the same as those who brought us here last night. Probably, Signor Le Brun, this may be the same. information you were conveying to his honour.’

Signor Le Brun with great energy protested that it was the first he had heard of the affair. .

But by this time the Juez de paz had recovered his command of temper. He was, in fact, somewhat cowed: by the manly bearing of Thorne, who, as an English- man, and ina kind of official capacity, was, in some. respects, beyond his jurisdiction. Moreover, he was aware that Thorne had, in one instance, for some petty grievance, demanded and obtained redress from the ‘[]- lustrious Restorer of Laws’ in person ; and thus, thou he felt indignant at being bearded in his own hall—I had almost said hell; he rather considered Thorne as a person whose officious information was to be got rid of than as a culprit to be bullied. He therefore contented himself by saying, ‘Don Thomas, this is not an affair that comes under my cognisance, or yours; and let me assure you, the less you trouble yourself with the affairs of others the better.’

‘But, Sir, with respect to the man on the pavement,’ commenced Griffin.

‘ Officers, take the foo] away!’ roared the magistrate, with his hand on the bell.

But the worthy Radamanthus and his myrmidons were saved the trouble; for Tom Thorne, with a bow to the exasperated official, anda kind of dubious glance at Le Brun, hurried Griffin out of the Sale Justice without extraneous assistance.

‘ By the powers of Molley Kelly and the bean stalk of Jack the giant-Killer’ said Griffin, when once they were out of sight and hearing, ‘but that justice cares no more about the finding of dead men in the street than I would

* Let the Federals live,—iet the savage, dirty, ruthless Uni- tarians die !’—or, Up with the Federals; down with the-——

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