"Ah, Carlos! you boys learn many ideas in your travels, but, believe me, it is at times dangerous to expose them so publicly."
"And believe me," answered Don Carlos, "that the day is not far off when these ideas of mine will be the law of a new nation in America."
As he went out he was joined by Marcelino.
"Will you take no part with any of us?" asked Marcelino.
"To raise again that emblem of tyranny which has been torn down? Not I. Have you so soon forgotten the lessons we have learned together?"
"I have not forgotten them, Carlos; but how shall I think of them when a foreigner rules in my native country?"
"All tyrants are foreigners, Marcelino. When once we are fairly rid of our tyrants then it will be time enough to turn out these English. If it were to gain our country for ourselves none would be more forward than Carlos Evaña."
"Let us turn out the English, and then we will work together."
"You do not know it, but these English are our best friends, Marcelino."