De bay boss, him go fast, an' black Sam, him go on um back." Rebecca hastily wrote on a slip of paper: DEAR BROTHER;-- Ester is at our house and would like to see you.

Do not come unless you can do so safely, for Sir William Berkeley is furious.
Your sister, REBECCA.
Meanwhile, the fiery General Bacon was not at Curles nursing his sick wife, as was reported (and who was not sick at all); but he, in company with Robert Stevens, was riding to and fro, at the heads of the rivers, sounding the slogan.

At the word from Bacon, his friends rose in arms, and among them were a part of the eight thousand horse which Berkeley had reported in the colony.

The people had borne enough of Berkeley's tyranny, and the masses sided with Bacon.

Even those who did not take up arms in his defence were friendly to his interests.