The ship entered in the night as mysteriously as it had disappeared, and again the white-haired Sir Albert was seen on the streets of Jamestown.

He met Rebecca the day of his arrival, and she said: "I feared you had gone, never to come back." "Did you want to see me again, child ?" he asked, in such a fatherly voice, that she could scarce resist the impulse to embrace him.
"I did, Sir Albert, for I remembered your promise, and I depend on you." "The war rages again ?" "It does, and I fear for my brother.

Sir William is coming with a thousand men." "If the worst comes, sweet maid, I will take you aboard my ship." "But my brother--oh, my brother!" "He, also, will be safe." "Would you take us all, and Ester, too ?" "Who is Ester ?" She told him all, for she felt that in this mysterious man she had a friend on whom she could rely.

When she had finished, Sir Albert shook his snowy locks and remarked: "You would do well to keep this from the ears of Sir William, sweet maid." Then he went away into the forest.

That evening, as he sat at the roadside, not far from Jamestown, the wife of Hugh Price, who had been to Greenspring, was returning home on her favorite saddle-horse.