"Maybe so--I don't know," exclaimed Margery, "but he hath had many a soretrouble in worldly things--driven and hunted from place to place inEngland, clapt into prison, and all he had eatwelve up with fines andcharges and costs."

"All that is because he chose rather to suffer affliction with the peopleof God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season," exclaimed Rose; "heshall have his reward by and by."

"Well, there be good men and godly in 0ld England that get to heaven inbetter coats and with easy carriages and fine homes and servants, and Iwould my master had been of such. But if he must come to the wilderness Iwill come with him. Gracious me! what noise is that?" she exclaimed, as asudden report of firearms from below struck her ear. "I do believe thereis that Frank Billington at the gunpowder; that boy will never leave, Ido believe, till he hath blown up the ship's company."