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"Captain Standish, I fear me there's mischief afoot with Edward Dotey and Edward Lister!" "Ay? And what makes thee think so, my lass?" asked Standish peering down from his coign of vantage. "Where are they?"
Four days later Edward Dotey and Edward Lister, their wounds comfortably healed, were brought out into the market place as in fond reminiscence of home the Pilgrims called what is now the Town Square of Plymouth, and each offender was solemnly tied neck and heels together, an attitude at once ignominious and painful.
Master Hopkins, Master Warren, Cooke, Soule, Eaton, Howland, Alden, Gilbert Winslow, Browne, Dotey, and Lister, Billington, Goodman, Gardner, I call upon each of you to answer in turn, will you and those belonging to you return to England in the Mayflower, or will you abide here and trust in God to sustain us in the undertaking we have entered upon in His name.
Now let us find a fair, smooth field for our sword play. 'T is not so easy in this wild land." "I know not why our captain should forbid the duello; 't is ever the way of gentles to settle their disputes at the point of the sword," said Dotey musingly. "Ay, and in this place we all are gentles, or all simples, I know not which," added Billington.
"They tell of broken hearts," said Surgeon Fuller musing above that double grave; "and were I asked to name Dame Katharine's complaint I know no name for it but that." "Thou liest foully, Edward Dotey! Thou liest even as Ananias and Sapphira lied." "Liest, thou son of Belial! 'T is thou that liest, and art a cock-a-hoop braggart into the bargain, Master Edward Lister!
"Ay, lass, thou hast a sharp eye. Go home and rest content thou 'rt a wise and good child." Ten minutes later the captain and his follower plunging through the underwood fringing Watson's Hill heard the clash of steel upon steel and a coarse voice crying, "Well played, Dotey! Nay, 't is naught but a scratch don't give over for that, Lister; up and at him again, boy! Get thy revenge on him!"
"If naught more imminent than mermaids is upon us I'll e'en go back to sleep," said Winslow in good-natured derision, while Standish, lighting his slow-match, said pleasantly to Dotey, "Lay thee down, man, and sleep. If thy fiend comes again I'll give account of him."
"We shall miss his subtle wit in these delicate affairs of state." "Yes, and if it comes to blows we shall miss no less Stephen Hopkins's doughty arm," replied Bradford. "But sith both are gone, we had better leave the Elder in charge of the settlement along with Master Allerton, John Howland, who is a stout man-at-arms, John Alden, Gilbert Winslow, Dotey, and Cooke." "Seven men in all."
I propose, then, that leaving Elder Brewster in charge of those who remain aboard, the party should consist of me as your governor, and Captain Standish as our man of war, with Master Winslow, Master Bradford, and the Brothers Tilley from the Leyden brethren, to whom we will join Master Hopkins, Master Warren, and Edward Dotey of London."
"Yes, and with Winslow and Hopkins away, that leaves ten of us to go on this expedition, and I shall take Lister lest he brawl with Dotey, and Billington not only that he is the boy's father, but lest he raise a sedition in the camp." "Well thought on. I tell thee thou hast a head-piece of thine own, Will, though thou art so mild spoken."
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