Serpent Never Sleeps
“Without a dissenting voice, they voted to abandon the colony and return to England.
Four days after their decision, to a stir of drums and a fusillade of musketry, we left Jamestown and moved down the river on our way to the sea. We were not out of sight when the Indians swarmed into the deserted fort. Their flaming brands glowed in the dusk.
We anchored at the mouth of the river and ate supper on the deck of Deliverance. It was a happy feast, for most everyone was glad to be going home to Engl...and—not only the survivors of the awful winter, but also the newcomers shocked by the desolation they had seen.
As for me, I was the happiest person at the feast.
Already I was across the endless sea. I was home in Foxcroft, at my desk in the tower, about to write a letter to James, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. But what could I say? I cudgeled my brain. I got up from the desk. I peered out the window at the River Dane flowing sweetly in the meadow.
The king wouldn't know that I had followed Anthony Foxcroft to Plymouth and beyond.MoreLess
Four days after their decision, to a stir of drums and a fusillade of musketry, we left Jamestown and moved down the river on our way to the sea. We were not out of sight when the Indians swarmed into the deserted fort. Their flaming brands glowed in the dusk.
We anchored at the mouth of the river and ate supper on the deck of Deliverance. It was a happy feast, for most everyone was glad to be going home to Engl...and—not only the survivors of the awful winter, but also the newcomers shocked by the desolation they had seen.
As for me, I was the happiest person at the feast.
Already I was across the endless sea. I was home in Foxcroft, at my desk in the tower, about to write a letter to James, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. But what could I say? I cudgeled my brain. I got up from the desk. I peered out the window at the River Dane flowing sweetly in the meadow.
The king wouldn't know that I had followed Anthony Foxcroft to Plymouth and beyond.MoreLess
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