"No more than the bite of a harmless snake in the grass.

A dog of a servant who came over with us--one of Monmouth's brood.

He has no knowledge of who I am, nor suspicion of my purpose.

It is not that, yet the fellow watches me like a hawk.

We had some words aboard and there is hate between us" "If he was indentured, how came he on the sloop ?" "Fairfax bought him.