nd forced the door. Salterne was kneeling by his
daughter's bed; his head was upon the coverlet; his Prayer-book was
open before him at the Burial Service; his hands were clasped in
supplication; but he was dead and cold.

His will lay by him. He had left all his property among his poor
relations, saving and excepting all money, etc., due to him as owner and
part-adventurer of the ship Rose, and his new bark of three hundred tons
burden, now lying East-the-water; all which was bequeathed to Captain
Amyas Leigh, on condition that he should re-christen that bark the
Vengeance,--fit her out with part of the treasure, and with her sail
once more against the Spaniard, before three years were past.

And this was the end of William Salterne, merchant.

CHAPTER XXIX

HOW THE VIRGINIA FLEET WAS STOPPED BY THE QUEEN'S COMMAND

"The daughter of debate,
That discord still doth sow,
Shall reap no gain where former rule
Hath taught still peace to grow.
No foreign banish'd wight
Shall anker in this port
Our realm it brooks no stranger's force;
Let them elsewhere resort."

QU. ELIZABETH. 1569.

And now Amyas is settled quietly at home again; and for the next twelve
months little passes worthy of record in these pages. Yeo has installed
himself as major domo, with no very definite functions, save those of
walking about everywhere at Amyas's heels like a lank gray wolf-hound,
and spending his evenings at the fireside, as a true old sailor
does, with his Bible on his knee, and his hands busy in manufacturing
numberless nicknacks, useful and useless, for every member of the
family, and above all for Ayacanora, whom he insults every week by
humbly offering some toy only fit for a child; at which she pouts, and
is reproved by Mrs. Leigh, and then takes the gift, and puts it away
never to look at it again. For her whole soul is set upon being
an English maid; and she runs about all day long after Mrs. Leigh,
insisting upon learning the mysteries of the kitchen and the still-room,
and, above all, the art of making clothes for herself, and at last for
everybody in Northam. For first, she will be a good housewife, like Mrs.
Leigh; and next a new idea has dawned on her: that of helping others.
To the boundless hospitality of the savage she has been of course
accustomed: but to give to those who can give nothing in return, is a
new thought. She sees Mrs. Lei