The gentleman from London was Mr.Samuel Holmes, who had been a too warm friend of Charles I.to suit the Protectorate, and after Cromwellism had become a certainty, he considered it better to fly the country.

As Virginia had been friendly to cavaliers, he had brought his daughter to Jamestown and spent six months there; but, being assured by friends that he could return with safety, he had decided to go home.
From that time John Stevens and Mr.Holmes became friends.

In a day or two more the passengers had nearly all recovered from their seasickness, and the voyage promised to be a favorable one.

John Stevens met Blanche Holmes, a pretty blue-eyed English girl, with light brown hair and ruddy cheeks.

She was not over eighteen years of age, and was one of those trusting, confiding creatures, who win friends at first sight.