“Great Sachem say maybe English kill Nausauwah. Maybe make him slave far across sea. Great Sachem love his son and no want it so. Maybe your father have same love to you. Not want you hurt or killed. You think?”
“Aye,” answered the boy steadily.
“Great Sachem think so too. Maybe English send his son back to him pretty soon. You think?”
“I do not know, but if he is not guilty, he will go free. But first he will be tried.”
“When you think he be tried?”
“Soon. Ere this, doubtless, had not the trouble in the Plymouth Colony disturbed those in Boston.”
“Great Sachem say what trouble at Plymouth.”
“King Philip, as we call him, has taken wicked counsel and has killed many of the English and burned their homes.” If David expected evidences of surprise, he was disappointed. The sachem received the news placidly, as did the others, and David concluded that they had already known it. “The English have sent many soldiers to punish King Philip,” he added sternly, “and he will be very sorrowful indeed.”
