The old cavalier Berkeley was going to make an imposing scene of it.

The governor sent the burgesses a message to attend him in the council chamber below, on public business, and when they came, he addressed them on the Indian troubles, specially denouncing the murder of the six chiefs in Maryland, though Colonel Washington, who commanded the forces on that expedition, was present.

With pathetic emphasis the governor declared: "Had they killed my grandfather and grandmother, my father and mother and all my friends, yet if they came to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace." Having finished this harangue, designed for the humiliation of John Washington and his followers, he rose and with grim humor said: "If there be joy in the presence of the angels over one sinner that repenteth, there is joy now, for we have a penitent sinner come before us.

Call Mr.Bacon." Bacon came in, holding the paper in his trembling hand, and, kneeling, read his confession.

It evidently grieved his lion heart to do so, for at times he faltered, and his voice, usually clear and distinct, was half smothered.