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The excited crowd surged forward, and a babel of voices arose "Silence, all!" cried the Governor "Let them play it out!"

My lord threw, and his bowl stopped perilously near the shining"O Lord!" came to my ears fro thundered against the toys of this world I drew back my ar, andthe jack before it, rushed on, until both buried themselves in the red and yellow leaves that filled the trench

I turned and bowed to onist "You boell,of eye and arht have been reversed"

He looked me up and down "You are kind, sir," he said thickly "'To-day to thee, to-ive you joy of your petty victory"

He turned squarely fro to Rolfe and to the few--not even all of that side for which I had ho pressed around me, when he wheeled

"Your Honor," he cried to the Governor, who had paused beside Mistress Percy, "is not the Due Return high-pooped? Doth she not carry a blue pennant, and hath she not a gilt siren for figurehead?"

"Ay," answered the Governor, lifting his head froallantry "What then, my lord?"

"Then to-morrow has dawned, sir captain," said ed for ain"

The gashead of sweet scented, lying to one side, wreathed with bright vines, was unclai of canary dropped their burden, and stared with the rest All looked down the river, and all saw the Due Return co up the broad, ruffled strea her sails, the tide with her, the giltfoaht to see her for at least ten days

Upon all there fell a sudden realization that it was the word of the King, feathered by the co, arrow-like, toward us All knehat the Company's orders would be,-- in the grave that s The crowd drew back froue-spotted Only Rolfe, Sparrow, and the Indian stood their ground