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Updated: June 13, 2025
The two fugitives were soon beyond the range of the Spanish musketeers, but Captain Van der Elst still cried out to his companion, "Go on! go on!" for, glancing behind him, he saw indistinctly through the gloom the heads of several horsemen following them. "We shall soon be at the bridge," cried Berthold. "I do not think the Spaniards will attempt to cross it."
Hans was saying this while he was assisting Berthold to replace the bit in the horse's mouth, and to tighten the girth of his saddle, the landlord rendering the same service to Captain Van der Elst. The next moment they were in the saddle and pushing full speed through the village to the southward.
"Can you now remain with us?" asked the burgomaster of Captain Van der Elst. "Would that I could," answered Karl, his eyes turning for a moment towards Jaqueline. "But our Prince requires my services and directed me to return without delay, he has, as you know, but few officers.
The two as they met exchanged salutes, the manner of the latter being hurried, as if he desired not to be stopped. "Why, what has happened, Captain Van der Elst?" exclaimed the young gallant who has just been introduced. "I am in search of the burgomaster, and have been told that he was seen going to the Tower of Hengist," said the other, without answering the question.
"I lately gave four beautiful carrier pigeons to the Vrouw Jaqueline, and if she will consent to make them over to you, you can carry them with you, and by their means inform us what progress the Prince is making in his plans for our relief. Do you consent to give up your pets, Vrouw Jaqueline?" "Most willingly," she answered, "if Captain Van der Elst will undertake the charge of the birds."
Captain Van der Elst accounted for the circumstance of his having so providentially rescued her by saying that he had been sent to reconnoitre the enemy's position, and supposing that the boat was manned by Spaniards he had given chase. She entreated that he would proceed in his duty.
"I will tend them carefully, and trust that they may become the messengers of happy news," he said, a smile for a moment lighting up his countenance. Albert proposed that they should at once visit the pigeons with Captain Van der Elst, and instruct him how they were to be fed and treated, as it was possible that he might have to depart at an early hour the next morning.
As the foragers brought in word that parties of Spaniards who had come from the direction of the Hague had been met with, some fears were entertained that Captain Van der Elst and Berthold might have fallen into their hands. "Berthold is too well acquainted with the country to allow himself and his companion easily to be caught," observed the burgomaster.
Thinks I, 'tis what their Worships will have been keepin' for private use, between whiles. Or elst " "Or else?" "Or else maybe we've tapped a private cellar." Lord Rattley slapped his thigh. "A cache, by Jove! Old Squire Nicholas I remember, as a boy, hearing it whispered he was hand-in-glove with the Free Trade." The prisoner touched his hat humbly.
"There's a press out; or elst they're expecting one," she said. I heard a distant clock chiming for midnight as we followed her along this row of houses. Meliar-Ann started suddenly in front of us, spreading her arms out, then slowly backwards, and so motioning us to halt under the shadow of the wall.
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