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Show Page 203 thinks the killing of Jack of the Feathers did, indeed, trigger the attack, and when Opechancanough spoke his false and cunning words of reassurance, we were too trusting. But, with the hindsight born of experience, I believe Jack's death only an excuse and that the Indians had been planning our destruction for many months, perhaps for many years. ******************** March 25, 1622 For the past few days survivors have crept out of the forest telling tales so gruesome I have taken to covering my ears when they begin to relate how it went with them. Yet some have no tales to t e l l . Yesterday Thomas and Matilda Jones and their two sons arrived expecting to attend the Easter services! Though they live scarce a mile away, they had heard naught of the massacre and came unknowing to Wolstenholme Towne. They now huddle in the fort with the rest of us, for the Indians come and go in the settlement and on the river, and we know not when or where they will appear. I spend much time walking the platform next the palisade wall, looking toward the forest and hoping to see Anne and Cisly emerge from the barren woods, their hair still flaming |