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I have never received a penny from the English." "Well but, without special reasons, a man doesn't amuse himself by paying a visit to a herring-smack at night. The cargo could have been delivered to Herr Eberhard Amelungen without your inspection." "Eberhard Amelungen?" "Don't pretend to be so ignorant. Brandelaar has already confessed so much, that you can easily admit the rest.
According to the agreement with Heideck, Brandelaar, on his return from Dover, was to put in at Flushing, and the Major had instructed the guardships at the mouth of the West Schelde to allow the smack to pass unmolested without detention. But he waited for the skipper from day to day in vain.
I attach incomparably greater importance to skipper Brandelaar, whom I hold in my hand, and through whom perhaps with the help of Camille Penurot I hope to obtain information about the British fleet and its proposed employment. Brandelaar's vessel should now be off Ternenzen. I will ask you, Herr Lieutenant-Colonel, to have the man and his crew arrested to-day."
Brandelaar continued to stare in front of him at the floor. "The lady would go in spite of the bad weather. And she would not be satisfied till I had persuaded my friend Van dem Bosch to take her in his cutter to Dover?" "This was last night?" "Yes last night." "And what more?" persisted Heideck. "He came back at noon to-day. They had a misfortune on the way." Heideck's frame shook convulsively.
Heideck, with a wave of his hand, invited him to sit down opposite and began to speak. "From what I have seen of Brandelaar I am convinced that he is an arrant rascal. It was very imprudent on your part to have anything to do with a man like that. If you are brought before a court-martial, you have him to thank for it." "For God's sake, Herr major my life isn't in danger?
"Be so good as to go on deck for a while, Penurot," said he. "I will call you when I want to continue the conversation. You shall give me your company first, Brandelaar. I should like a few words with you in private." The man with the fashionably pointed beard obeyed. Then Heideck turned to the Dutchman "This Penurot is the guilty party, isn't he?
I cannot believe, M. Penurot, that your Antwerp correspondent would be willing to sell so much for thirty pounds." The two men were clearly overwhelmed by the weight of the unexpected blow. For a moment, when Heideck drew the paper out of the bread, it looked as if Brandelaar would have thrown himself upon him and attempted to tear it from him by force.
"But you won't take me before the court-martial?" "That remains to be seen. I can promise you nothing. Everything will depend on the information which Herr Amelungen gives me about you, and on your future behaviour. I will now have Brandelaar down again, and you will remain silent while I speak to him." "Of course, I will do everything the Herr major tells me."
"But how does that agree with your intention of using him as a spy in our interest?" "I forgot to tell you that it is an agreement between Brandelaar and myself. He himself thought it necessary for his own safety; he was afraid of the crew.
"I puzzled my brains how I could please you, and appease your anger at my sudden appearance that terrible anger, of which I felt so afraid. And as I heard from Brandelaar that it is your duty to discover military secrets " "The worthy Brandelaar is a chatterer. It seems as if your beautiful eyes have tempted him to open his whole heart to you."
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