The English settlements would, it was true, grant them freedom to use their own religion, but what would his wife and he do, without a friend, strangers among folk who spoke another tongue?
Had Amos Green remained true to them, then, indeed, all would have been well.

But he had deserted them.

Of course there was no reason why he should not.

He was no blood relation of theirs.

He had already benefited them many times.