He had now brought his mother to Medlicot's Mill.

She and the Gangoil ladies had met each other on neutral ground, and it was almost necessary that they should either be friends or absolute enemies.

Mrs.Heathcote had been aware of this, and bad declared that enmity was horrible.
"Upon my word," said Harry, "I sometimes think that friendship is more so.

I suppose I'm fitted for bush life, for I want to see no one from year's end to year's end but my own family and my own people." And yet this young patriarch in the wilderness was only twenty-four years old, and had been educated at an English school! Medlicot's cottage was about a hundred and fifty yards from the mill, looking down upon the Mary, the banks of which at this spot were almost precipitous.

The site for the plantation had been chosen because the river afforded the means of carriage down to the sea, and the mill had been so constructed that the sugar hogsheads could be lowered from the buildings into the river boats.