Wyandotte

Chapter 23

Yet I well remember

The favours of these men: were they not mine?

Did they not sometimes cry, all hail! to me?

So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve

Found truth in all but one; I in twelve thousand none.

Willis.

While the captain and Joyce were digesting their plans Mike proceeded

on an errand of peculiar delicacy with which he had been entrusted by

Robert Willoughby. The report that he had returned flew through the

dwellings, and many were the hearty greetings and shakings of the hand

that the honest fellow had to undergo from the Plinys and Smashes, ere

he was at liberty to set about the execution of this trust. The

wenches, in particular, having ascertained that Mike had not broken his

fast, insisted on his having a comfortable meal, in a sort of servants'

hall, before