The fellow, feeling complimented at being addressed by the celebrated stranger, went on, "Well do I remember, good sir, when and for whom the stool was constructed." "For whom was it built ?" asked Sir Albert.
"It was made for Ann Linkon, who had slandered goodwife Stevens as was, but who has, since her husband was drowned at sea, married Hugh Price, the royalist and friend of the governor.

Oh, how Ann did scold and rave, and it was a merry sight to see her plunged beneath the water." The stranger asked some questions about Ann Linkon and was informed that she had died several years before.

"But to the last," the narrator resumed, "she hated Dorothe Stevens.

She rejoiced when poverty assailed her, brought on by her own extravagance, after her husband had gone away.

Then when goodwife Stevens received the fortune from the grandfather of her dead husband, the old Spaniard at St.Augustine, she again went among the cavaliers and was enabled to marry Hugh Price.