For a minute or more there was no
sound in the room save the sound of the blows; then my wife
suddenly cried out: "It is enough! You have beaten him enough!
Let him go, sir!"
I threw down the whip. "Begone, sirrah!" I ordered. "And keep out
of my sight to-morrow!"
With his face still dark red and with a pulse beating fiercely in his
cheek, he moved slowly toward the door, turned when he had
reached it and saluted, then went out and closed it after him.
"Now he too will be your enemy," said Mistress Percy, "and all
through me. I have brought you many enemies, have I not? Perhaps
you count me amongst them? I should not wonder if you did. Do
you not wish me gone from Virginia?"
"So I were with you, madam," I said bluntly, and went to call the
minister down to supper.
CHAPTER XVI IN WHICH I AM RID OF AN UNPROFITABLE SERVANT
THE next day, Governor and Councilors sat to receive presents
from the Paspaheghs and to listen to long and affectionate
messages from Opechancanough, who, like the player queen, did
protest too much. The Council met at Yeardley's house, and I was
called before it to make my report of the expedition of the day
before. It was late afternoon when the Governor dismissed us, and
I found myself leaving the house in company with Master Pory.
"I am bound for my lord's," said that worthy as we neared the guest
house.
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