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Boekman took off his heavy coat, filled an earthen basin with water, and placed it near the bed. Then turning to Hans he asked, "Can I depend upon you, boy?" "You can, mynheer." "I believe you. Stand at the head, here your mother may sit at your right so." And he placed a chair near the cot. "Remember, jufvrouw, there must be no cries, no fainting." Dame Brinker answered him with a look.
I told the Jufvrouw because I knew that we might all of us be swept away, and I thought it well that then she should know where to look for a key to the treasure." "A woman's kind of reason," answered Martin imperturbably, "and a bad one at that, for if we had been finished off she must have found it difficult to get hold of the sword. But all this is done with.
Here, you," he called to a soldier who stood up to salute him, "follow me to the house of the Jufvrouw Lysbeth van Hout, where I sup, and lead this sledge back to my quarters."
Jufvrouw van Gleck!" called Hans in a loud tone, stumbling after her as well as he could, for one of his skate strings was untied. Hilda turned and, with one hand raised to shield her eyes from the sun, seemed to him to be floating through the air, nearer and nearer. "We cannot take this money," panted Hans, "though we know your goodness in giving it." "Why not, indeed?" asked Hilda, flushing.
But it is your affair and His; I leave it to be arranged between you. Till this evening, Jufvrouw," and he bowed himself from the room. But Elsa, shamed and broken-hearted, threw herself upon the bed and wept. At mid-day she arose, hearing upon the stair the step of the woman who brought her food, and to hide her tear-stained face went to the barred lattice and looked out.
"Jufvrouw," said Martin presently, "there is another flagon of wine in that locker, and we should be glad of a pull at it." Elsa, who was steering the boat, rose and found the wine and a horn mug, which she filled and handed first to Foy. "Here's a health," said Foy as he drank, "to the memory of Mother Martha, who saved us all.
"A slight mistake, I think, Jufvrouw, I mean a conversation about an excellent friend of yours, whose spiritual affairs seem to interest you." "What of it, Senor?" "Only this; I have made inquiries and " Lysbeth looked up unable to conceal her anxiety. "Oh! Jufvrouw, let me beg of you to learn to control your expression; the open face of childhood is so dangerous in these days."
"For a while, captain," blurted Dirk; "why, from first to last, she has been gone nearly four hours, and a fine state we have been in about her." "That will all be explained presently, Senor at supper, to which the Jufvrouw has been so courteous as to ask me," then, aside and below his breath, again the ominous word of reminder "pays."
Moreover, he owes me more money than I ever saw; therefore, if he should chance to become the husband of the Jufvrouw Brant, and the legal owner of her parent's wealth, whatever disagreements may ensue between him and me I shall have earned my share of it in a clean and gentlemanly fashion.
"I will tell you," she answered, "for, as he never gave me my pay, my tongue is loosed. He wished for evidence that the Heer Dirk van Goorl was a heretic, and employed me to find it." Brant's face hardened, and he became more watchful. "Why did he wish such evidence?" "To use it to prevent the marriage of Jufvrouw Lysbeth with the Heer Dirk van Goorl." "How?" Meg shrugged her shoulders.
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