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William
came, and was admitted by his generous brother to a partnership
in the prosperous plantation. Some six years later, when Arabella
was fifteen, her father died, leaving her in her uncle's
guardianship. It was perhaps his one mistake. But the goodness of
his own nature coloured his views of other men; moreover, himself,
he had conducted the education of his daughter, giving her an
independence of character upon which perhaps he counted unduly. As
things were, there was little love between uncle and niece. But
she was dutiful to him, and he was circumspect in his behaviour
before her. All his life, and for all his wildness, he had gone
in a certain awe of his brother, whose worth he had the wit to
recognize; and now it was almost as if some of that awe was
transferred to his brother's child, who was also, in a sense, his
partner, although she took no active part in the business of the
plantations.
Peter Blood judged her - as we are all too prone to judge - upon
insufficient knowledge.
He was very soon to have cause to correct that judgment.


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