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Updated: June 2, 2025
All Dort was in a state of excitement; parties of the burgher guard still patrolled the town; numerous arrests were made in the skinners' and butchers' quarters; groups of people assembled and talked over the events of the night; and indignation at the riot and assault upon Mynheer van Duyk, and pity for himself and his daughter, were loudly expressed on all sides.
"Well, my boy, I stopped each time something like a month at Dort, and, as a matter of course, I fell over head and ears in love with Maria van Duyk.
“A spy landed last night, Van Duyk, and it is more than probable that he is taking shelter here.” “I don’t know why you should suspect me more than anyone else. I am a quiet man, meddling in no way with public matters, and attending only to my own business.” “It is all very well to say that; we have certain information about you.”
"There now, my daughter is waiting, and the hour for sailing is at hand. Do not let us say any more about it." So saying he hurried Rupert out into the hall where Maria Von Duyk was waiting, before he could have raised any objection, had he wished to do so.
"We saw you come down to the quay with Mynheer Von Duyk and his daughter. Our boat lay next to the boat you went by." "That is so," Hugh said. "Are you going to Bergen? We have enough dollars left to pay our passage." "You would be welcome in any case," the boatman said. "Hans Petersen is not a man to bargain with shipwrecked men. But go below. There is a fire there.
He made a long detour, and returned to the tavern. Not a moment was lost in following up the clue. The house in question had been unoccupied for some time. The owner was, however, known to Van Duyk, who at once called upon him. He said that he had let it some weeks before, to a person who had stated that he was a merchant of Amsterdam, and intended to open a branch house at Dort.
"Mistress Von Duyk," he said, "my master is here wounded; and as he has not a friend in the place, and I saw you, I made bold to speak to you." "Oh! I am sorry," the girl said, holding out her hand to Hugh. "Papa, this is one of the gentlemen who rescued me, as I told you, when Sir Richard Fulke tried to carry me off." The gentleman, who had looked on in profound astonishment, seized Hugh's hand.
It was old, with gables, and each floor projected beyond the one below it. A dim light was visible in one of the upper rooms, while a far brighter light shone through the folds of curtains which had been drawn across a window lower down. Rupert drew his own conclusions. Returning, he found the burgomaster and chief constable already with Mynheer van Duyk.
"I might do that," Van Duyk said; "but he knows that if he forced her to marry him, I should still give her my money. In the second place, she has a large fortune of her own, that came to her through her mother.
Rupert thanked the worthy alderman, and then stated that he was the grandson of Colonel Holliday, of Windthorpe Chace, in Derbyshire, and had come up to London to wait upon the Earl of Marlborough, who had promised him his protection and a cornetcy in a regiment of horse for service in Holland. "In that case, sir," Mistress Von Duyk said, "it is like you may come to Dort.
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