I began to fear for thy wife’s safety. She knew not the woods, and I managed to turn our steps back toward Jamestown without her knowledge that I did so. It was about midday when we saw the gleam of the river through the trees before us, and heard the sound of firing and of a great yelling. I made her crouch within a thicket, while I myself went forward to reconnoitre, and well-nigh stumbled into the midst of an army. Yelling, painted, maddened, brandishing their weapons toward the town, human hair dabbled with blood at the belts of many — in the name of God, Ralph, what is the meaning of it all?”

“It means,” I said, “that yesterday they rose against us and slew us by the hundred. The town was warned and is safe. Go on.”

“I crept back to madam,”