Some I had met, many I knew of, but two or three gave me a start.

There was a planter in Henricus who had treated me like dirt, and some names from Essex county that I did not expect.

Especially there were several in James Town itself--one a lawyer body I had thought the obedient serf of the London merchants, one the schoolmaster, and another a drunken skipper of a river boat.

But what struck me most was the name of Colonel Beverley.
"Are you sure of all these ?" I asked.
"Sure as death," he said.

"I'm not saying that they're all friends of yours, Mr.Garvald.