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"No, madam," I answered "I live up river, in Weyanoke Hundred, soone!" she cried, with sudden passion

I bowed low, and advanced to kiss her hand

The finger tips which she slowly and reluctantly resigned to me were icy, and the look hich she favored n for like occasions I shrugged the shoulders of h at arth, we passed from the shade of the cedars into the open meadohere we presently hing andunsavory jests, but I drew her closer to me and laid my hand upon my sword They stood aside, for I was the best swordsed The river, up and dohite with sailboats, and across the neck of the peninsula went a line of horsemen, each with his purchase upon a pillion behind him The Governor, the Councilors, and the commanders had betaken thereat dinner was to be given But Master Piersey, the Cape Merchant, remained to see the Company reimbursed to the last leaf, and the four h one couple trod not upon the heels of another, as they had done an hour agone

"Ito a halt within fifty feet of the now deserted high places

She drew her hand from mine, and looked me up and down

"How much is it?" she asked at last "I will pay it"

I stared at her

"Can't you speak?" she cried, with a stamp of her foot "At what am I valued? Ten pounds--fifty pounds"-"At one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco, madam," I said dryly "I will pay it myself To what name upon the ship's list do you answer?"

"Patience Worth," she replied

I left her standing there, and went uponbrain Her enrollment in that company proclaimed her meanly born, and she bore herself as of blood royal; of her own free will she had crossed an ocean to meet this day, and she held in passionate hatred this day and all that it contained; she was coinia to better her condition, and the purse which she had drawn froold pieces To another I would have advised caution, delay, application to the Governor, inquiry; for myself I cared not to make inquiries