..Under the crown, American history; . e have missedthese eight days. My Uncle Opecanchanough persuaded myfather that you taught me magic from the bookabout your God. They forbade me to comehere; but to-day they sent me freely. Smith, who carried his Bible wherever hecarried his sword, had begun the instruction ofPocahontas in Christianity, afterward completedby her English husband. But her words broughtmore immediate anxiety than her conversion. RATCLIFFES CONSPIRACY. 23 COPYRIGH 905, JAMESTOWN OFFICIAL PHOTO CO. *Thy Uncle Opecanchanough is sure to meanunfriendliness to us English, whether h
..Under the crown, American history; . e have missedthese eight days. My Uncle Opecanchanough persuaded myfather that you taught me magic from the bookabout your God. They forbade me to comehere; but to-day they sent me freely. Smith, who carried his Bible wherever hecarried his sword, had begun the instruction ofPocahontas in Christianity, afterward completedby her English husband. But her words broughtmore immediate anxiety than her conversion. RATCLIFFES CONSPIRACY. 23 COPYRIGH 905, JAMESTOWN OFFICIAL PHOTO CO. *Thy Uncle Opecanchanough is sure to meanunfriendliness to us English, whether he urgeththy father to let thee come hither or to restrainthee, he said, thoughtfully; and waving his handin farewell, he turnedthrough the gateway. The two scrambleddown the steep bankto a narrow, sandypath beside the river. It is not of thykings court I wouldhear, Pocahontassmiled. Last weekthou didst tell me thysisters were littlemaids like me. * Nan is of thineage, and a pretty littleminx, who can dancea minuet— I can dance, too,. TOWER OF THE lAMESTOWN CHURCH. Pocahontas broke in. And I also am laughed yet more heartily. Nancalls herself fair, I doubt not, but she wouldnever say so, even to her dearest friend. Why should she not say so if it be the truth ? 24 RATCLIFFES CONSPIRACY. My lady mother hath taught her that a maidmust leave to others the praise of her beauty. *Then I will never call myself beautiful me something more wherein I am unlike thysisters, for I desire to be as English as they are. That thou couldst not be, nor must thoudesire it, he protested. Nan turns faint fora cut finger, and though Bess helps my mothervisit the sick, she would never dare risk her lifeto save a stranger, as thou didst, or to walkthrough miles of snow-drift to feed starving men,as thou hast done many times this winter. Hush! whispered Pocahontas. The soft-ness his praise had brought to her eyes vanishedas she grasped his arm. One of my peoplecometh; I hea
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