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In the morning Dr. Mulbridge drove back to Corbitant, and in the evening Libby came over from New Leyden with Maynard, in a hired wagon. He was a day later than his wife had computed, but as she appeared to have reflected, she had left the intervening Sunday out of her calculation; this was one of the few things she taxed herself to say.
With the early light, all who were friendly to the English gathered around them, while the faction in favor of Corbitant fled into the wilderness. A large group was soon assembled.
But some one betrayed them to Corbitant, who was vaporing around the village calling upon the men to rise in revolt against Massasoit and deliver him up to the Narragansetts, and saying that we white men should all be slain, and also those who have made alliance with us, for already he had news of our visit to Nauset, and the contract made with Aspinet, and Canacum, and Iyanough.
For a while, habit and the automatic tendency of desire carry them on. He drove back to Corbitant perched on the rickety seat of his rattling open buggy, and bowed forward as his wont was, his rounded shoulders bringing his chin well over the dashboard.
Captain Standish, in words of conciliation and of firmness, informed them that, though Corbitant had escaped, yet, if he continued his hostility, no place of retreat would secure him from punishment; and that, if any violence were offered to Massasoit or to any of his subjects by the Narragansets, or by any one else, the colonists would avenge it to the utter overthrow of those thus offending.
The sovereign of the Wampanoags was even compelled to take refuge from arrest by flight. The next day Hobbomak returned alone, breathless and terrified. He reported that they had hardly arrived at Namasket when Corbitant beset the wigwam into which they had entered with a band of armed men, and seized them both as prisoners.
Alarming tidings. The party leave Mount Hope. Conversation with Corbitant. English salutations. Theological remarks. Return to Plymouth. The army. Captain Standish. Insolence of the Indians. The commencement of hostilities. The conflict and victory. The Weymouth men go to Monhegan. Regrets of the English. Letter from Rev. Mr. Robinson.
Maynard at the sight of the trouble in Grace's face. "I shall ask to drive with you," she returned. "Mr. Libby, do you know where Corbitant is?" "Oh, yes." "And will you drive me there?" "Why, certainly!" he cried, in polite wonder. "Thank you." She turned half round, and cast a woman's look at the other women. "I shall be ready in half an hour. Will you go away, and comeback then? Not sooner."
Whatever relation such people held to the old Puritan commonwealth when Puritanism was absolute, they must later have taken an active part in its disintegration, and were probably always a destructive force at its heart. Mulbridge's grandfather was one of the last captains who sailed a slaver from Corbitant.
Mulbridge; and the young man, after leading out his own mare to see if her lameness had abated, ruefully put her back in the stable, and set off to Corbitant with the splay-foot at a rate of speed unparalleled, probably, in the animal's recollection of a long and useful life.
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