To go to war with them would be sure to lose him and his friends these profits.

I am one concerned in these speculations, and it would be a grievous wrong to me were the war prosecuted." Robert knew something of the savage outrages in Virginia.

He had learned of them while on shipboard, and he had some difficulty in restraining his rising indignation, so it was with considerable warmth that he answered: "Do you think your gains of more value than the human lives sacrificed on the frontier ?" "Such talk is treason," cried Price.

"It sounds not unlike Bacon, Cheeseman, Lawrence and Drummond.

Have you seen them since your return ?" "I have not, nor did I ever hear of the man Bacon before." "Have a care! You would do well to avoid Drummond, Cheeseman and Lawrence." "Why ?" "They are suspected of republicanism.