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"We will be wary," replied Foy, with the cheerful air of a young man eager for excitement. "Hague pike don't like Leyden perch, you know; they stick in their throats." "I hope so, I hope so," said the host, "still I pray you be careful. You will remember where to find the horses if you want them; they are fed and I will keep them saddled.
"Where are we going?" asked Martin. "To Leyden, I suppose," said Foy, "if we can get there, which, without a sail or weapons, seems unlikely." "I have put some arms in the boat," interrupted Adrian, "the best I could get," and from a locker he drew out a common heavy axe, a couple of Spanish swords, a knife, a smaller axe, a cross-bow and some bolts.
Lastly, I have the lie given to me, and without reproach, by my brother, who, were he not my brother, should answer for it at the sword's point." "Oh! Adrian, Adrian," broke in Foy, "don't be a fool; stop before you say something you will be sorry for." "That isn't all," went on Adrian, taking no heed. "Whom do I find at this table? The worthy Heer Arentz, a minister of the New Religion.
In short all the lighter and more cheerful parts of life were in abeyance. "Where is Adrian?" asked Dirk. "I do not know," answered Lysbeth. "I thought that perhaps " "No," replied her husband hastily; "he did not accompany us; he rarely does." "Brother Adrian likes to look underneath the spoon before he licks it," said Foy with his mouth full.
They make Gottschalk's stuff look sick. All I want's a chance. What I want you to do is accompaniment. On the stage, see? Grand piano. And a swell set. I haven't quite made up my mind to it. But a kind of an army camp room, see? And maybe you dressed as Liberty. Anyway, it'll be new, and a knockout. If only we can get away with the voice thing. Say, if Eddie Foy, all those years never had a "
We met then also the Francis of Foy, with whom again we intended to venture and get in, but the ice was yet so thick, that we were compelled again to retire and get us on sea board. There fell also the same day, being the 26th July, such a horrible snow, that it lay a foot thick upon the hatches, which froze as fast as it fell.
But the men themselves made no sound at all. Then Martin seemed to catch them round the middle, and behold! in another second the pair of them had gone headlong into the canal, which ran down the centre of the street. "My God! he has killed them," muttered Dirk. "And a good job, too, father," said Foy, "only I wish that I had shared in it." Martin's great form loomed in the doorway.
My information is good, as it should be since I pay for it dearly." "Then," said Foy, "there is nothing more to be said. We will try to get to the boat and try to get her away; and if we can get her away we will try to hide the treasure, and if we can't we will try to blow her up as you direct and try to escape ourselves. Or " and he shrugged his shoulders.
News, or rather rumours, of what was passing in the Netherlands reached them from time to time; twice even there came letters from Foy himself, but the last of these had been received many weeks ago just as the iron grip of the second leaguer was closing round the city.
Scarcely was it done when Adrian entered the room. The first thing he noticed was that Elsa and Foy were seated side by side, engaged in animated talk, and the second, that there was no cover for him at the table. "Have I your permission to sit down, mother?" he asked in a loud voice, for no one had seen him come in. "Certainly, son, why not?" answered Lysbeth, kindly.
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