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Show Page 232 back from his forehead, trace a finger along his square jawline, his stubbled cheek, aye, even along the curve of his mouth. "How came you by the scar?" I asked toward morning, when we had both awakened from a brief span of sleep. "When P was thirteen, a splinter of wood from the table I was carving on flew up and pierced my cheek," he whispered. "Is there aught else you wish to know, my sweet?" "Oh yes," I answered. "Ever so many things. But I trow I will have many days to discover them,is it not so?" "Aye, you shall," he said. So we sat together, my hand resting in his, smiling our foolish smiles, till at last we dozed once more. ******************** January, 1623 The Truelove , the James and the Abigail have all arrived within the past month, each carrying something on board to set tongues a-wagging- The Truelove carried supplies for one of the outlying plantations, but since that particular plantation has been abandoned since the massacre, Governor Wyatt appropriated the goods for the people gathered in James Towne. These are most welcome, but a hundred times that amount would be needed to fill all the empty bellies that abound. The James caused the most uproar, for it carried the first |