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He leapt to his feet, and his hand, as he did so, grasped his sword, which lay ready beside him. "What is it?" he exclaimed. "There is mischief afloat," Van Duyk said. "There is a sound as of a crowd in front of the house. I have heard the tramp of many footsteps." Rupert went to the window and looked out.
The next day Hugh went down early to the boat with the bans containing Rupert's luggage and his own, and a servant of Von Duyk accompanied him, bearing some provisions and a few choice bottles of wine for their use on the way. "Do you know, Master Rupert," he said on his return, "I don't much like the look of that boatman chap.
On arriving next morning, Rupert was overwhelmed with thanks by the alderman, his wife, and Mistress Maria Von Duyk, all of whom were much surprised at his youth, for in the dim light of the preceding evening the young lady had not perceived that her rescuer was a mere lad.
When we find out where she is confined, to my mind the serious difficulty only commences, for it is absolutely necessary that the arrest be so prompt and sudden, that he shall not have time even to level a pistol at her." Van Duyk acknowledged the justice of Rupert's reasoning. "Hugh has suggested that it is likely that he has in his pay the same boatmen whom he employed last year to murder us.
“I am well known to my neighbours as a peaceable man,” Van Duyk repeated, “and think it monstrous that I should be so interfered with and harried.” “Well, we don’t want any talk. Now, men, set to work and search every corner of the house, not only where a man could be hidden, but even a paper. These Dutchmen are traitors to a man, and if this fellow is no worse than others he is at least as bad.”
The next morning Hugh went down to the quay with one of the clerks of Von Duyk, and struck a bargain with some boatmen to carry Rupert and himself to Bergen op Zoom. It was a craft of some four or five tons burden, with a good sized cabin.
"It is a low resort where he was staying," Von Duyk said, "A tavern to which all the bad characters of the town for even Dort has some bad characters do resort. If he came here to do you harm, or with any fresh design upon my daughter, he would find instruments there.
Then some light ladders were brought up and placed in position on the two roofs, and all was ready for a party to pass over onto the terrace. At ten o'clock, then, accompanied by Mynheer van Duyk and the two troopers, he went to the spot where the force was assembled, and told them off to the duties he had assigned to them.
Van Duyk himself, like one distracted, wandered from place to place. Presently the spy set to watch the fisherman came in with his report.
Two hours later Will heard the trampling of horses, and two officers, with a troop of cavalry, rode up. “I bear a warrant to search your house, Van Duyk,” Will heard one of them say. “You have searched it three times already, meinheer, but you can, of course, search it again if you wish. You will certainly find no more now than you did then.”
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