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I have been questioned already by Philip Von Aert, and he said he would see me again; but in truth I have no intention of further intruding on him." "He is one of the Council of Blood," the woman said, dropping her voice and looking round anxiously; "and one of the most cruel of them.
I forgot," the councillor said, and giving the order to one of the warders Ned's bundle and stick were brought him. "You will stroll leisurely along," Von Aert said, "and appear natural and unconcerned. We shall be close to you, and you will be seized in an instant if we observe anything suspicious in your movements."
The count then asked him as to his arrest and manner of escape, and laughed heartily when he found that Von Aert had himself by mistake returned the letters found upon Ned. "I have delivered all but one," Ned said. "And that I know not how to dispose of, for it would be dangerous to play the same trick again.
This is the special order for the handing over to me of the prisoners named." The magistrates took the first order, glanced at it and at the seal, and perfectly satisfied with this gave a casual glance at that for the transferring of the prisoners. "I think you were about a year since with Councillor Von Aert?" one of the magistrates said. Ned bowed.
"This is a prisoner I myself made this morning," Von Aert said to his companions. "I overtook him two miles this side of Axel, and questioned him. He admitted that he came from Holland; and his answers were so unsatisfactory that I ordered him strictly to call upon me at Antwerp, not having time at that moment to question him further.
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