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Updated: June 10, 2025
Nay, you need not leave us; it is best that you should learn the truth." Presently Adrian entered, and Elsa, watching everything, noticed that he looked sadly changed and ill. "You sent for me, mother," he began, with some attempt at his old pompous air. Then he caught sight of her face and was silent. "I have been to the Gevangenhuis, Adrian," she said, "and I have news to tell you.
This town is not provisioned for a siege, its citizens are not trained to arms, and we have little powder stored. Moreover, the city council is divided. For the killing of the Spanish soldiers we may compound, but if we attack the Gevangenhuis, that is open rebellion, and we shall bring the army of Don Frederic down upon us." "What matter, cousin? It will come sooner or later."
It was a very sweet letter, telling him of her deep joy and gratitude at his escape; of the events that had happened in the town; of the death of his father in the Gevangenhuis, and ending thus: "Dear Foy, my betrothed, I cannot come to you because of your mother's sickness, for I am sure that it would be your wish, as it is my desire and duty, that I should stay to nurse her.
Remember what the worshipful Hendrik Brant said to us yonder on that night at The Hague that he believed that in a day to come thousands and tens of thousands of our people would bless the gold he entrusted to us." "I remember it all," answered Foy, "and other things too; his will, for instance," and he thought of his father and of those hours which Martin and he had spent in the Gevangenhuis.
"Then God grant it may be true," said van de Werff with a sigh, "for otherwise it is sad to think that more lives should be sacrificed for the sake of a heap of pelf." "I know it, cousin, but I come to you to save those lives." "How?" "How?" she answered fiercely. "Why, by raising the town; by attacking the Gevangenhuis and rescuing them, by driving the Spaniards out of Leyden "
For by this time Ramiro's temper was roused, and he began to think that he had done ill to return to Leyden. But he had still a card to play. In a certain room in the Gevangenhuis sat another victim.
He trembled and grew white; he turned away, and swiftly was gone back into the hell of the Gevangenhuis. Like a demon he had come out of it to survey the human world beyond, and search for victims there; like a demon he went back into his own place. So at least it seemed to Lysbeth. "Come, come," she muttered and, drawing the girl with her, passed out of the crowd.
It will be remembered that some weeks before Elsa's forced marriage in the Red Mill, Foy, on their escape from the Gevangenhuis, had been carried upon the naked back of Martin to the shelter of Mother Martha's lair in the Haarlemer Meer.
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