mmunicate the welcome intelligence to Bacon
and his followers, who, he knew, were anxiously awaiting the result of
his mission.

Ordering his horse, he bade a cordial adieu to the good old colonel,
who, as he shook his hand, said, with a tear in his eye, "Oh, my boy, my
boy! if your head were as near right as I believe your heart is, how I
would love to welcome you to my bosom as my son."

"I hope, my kind, my noble friend," said Hansford, "that the day may yet
come when you will see that I am not wholly wrong. God knows I would
almost rather err with you than to be right with any other man." Then
bidding a kind farewell to Mrs. Temple and Virginia, to which the old
lady responded with due civility, but without cordiality, he vaulted
into the saddle and rode off--and as long as the house was still in
view, he could see the white 'kerchief of Virginia from the open window,
waving a last fond adieu to her unhappy lover.

FOOTNOTES:

[46] A cup drunk at the marriage ceremony in honour of the bride.

CHAPTER XXXII.

"The abstract and brief chronicle of the time."
_Hamlet._

It is not our purpose to trouble the reader with a detailed account of
all the proceedings of the famous Rebellion, which forms the basis of
our story. We, therefore, pass rapidly over the stirring incidents which
immediately succeeded the flight of Sir William Berkeley. Interesting as
these incidents may be to the antiquary or historian, they have but
little to do with the dramatis personae of this faithful narrative, in
whose fate we trust our readers are somewhat interested. Accomac is
divided from the mainland of Virginia by the broad Chesapeake Bay.
Although contained in the same grant which prescribed the limits to the
colony, and although now considered a part of this ancient commonwealth,
there is good reason to believe that formerly it was considered in a
different light. In one of the earliest colonial state papers which has
been preserved, the petition of Morryson, Ludwell & Smith, for a
reformed charter for the colony, the petitioners are styled the "agents
for the governor, council and burgesses of the country of Virginia _and
territory of Accomac_;" and although this form of phraseology appears in
but few of the records, yet it would appear that the omission was the
result of mere convenience in style, just as Victoria is more frequently
styled the Queen of England, t