"They have elected your master, Captain John Smith, President of
the Council, Richard Mutton, and now for the first time will matters
in Jamestown progress as they should."
"My master President of the Council at last!" I cried, and the good
preacher added:
"So it is, lad, as I know full well, having just come from there."
"But how did they chance suddenly to gather their wits?" I cried
with a laugh, in which Master Hunt joined.
"It was done after Captain Newport had speech with Master Ratcliffe,
and while I know nothing for a certainty, there is in my mind
a strong belief that he brought word from the London Company for
such an election to be made. At all events, it is done, and now we
shall see Jamestown increase in size, even as she would have done
from the first month we landed here had Captain John Smith been at
the head of affairs."
The good preacher was so delighted with this change in the government
that he unfolded all his budget of news, forgetting for the time
being, most like, that he was not speaking to his equal, and thus
it was I learned what were Captain Newport's instructions from the
London Company.
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