That the Governor and Council, remembering old dangers shared, wished me well I did not doubt, but that was all.

Yeardley had done all he could do, more than most men would have dared to do, in procuring this delay.

There was no further help in him; nor would I have asked it.

Already out of favor with the Warwick faction, he had risked enough for me and mine.

I could not flee with my wife to the Indians, exposing her, perhaps, to a death by fierce tortures; moreover, Opechancanough had of late strangely taken to returning to the settlements those runaway servants and fugitives from justice which before we had demanded from him in vain.