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Presently a Tergovian came in with a word from Catherine that Ghysbrecht Van Swieten had seen Gerard later than any one else. On this Margaret determined to go and see the house and goods that had been left her, and take Reicht Heynes home to Rotterdam. And as may be supposed, her steps took her first to Ghysbrecht's house. She found him in his garden, seated in a chair with wheels.
When the young man put that interpretation on Ghysbrecht's strange and meaning look, Margaret was greatly relieved, and smiled gaily on the speaker. Meanwhile Ghysbrecht plodded on, more wretched in his wealth than these in their poverty.
The purse must have been at Ghysbrecht's saddle-bow, and Gerard rushing at his enemy, had unconsciously torn it away, thus felling his enemy and robbing him, with a single gesture. Gerard was delighted at this feat, but Margaret was uneasy. "Throw it away, Gerard, or let Martin take it back. Already they call you a thief. I cannot bear it." "Throw it away! give it him back? not a stiver!
This emphatic word, and the tone of eager curiosity, struck on Ghysbrecht's ear and revived his natural cunning. "I have lost the town records," stammered he, and he looked askant at the man like a fox caught near a hen-roost. "Oh, is that all?" "Is't not enough? What will the burghers say to me? What will the burghs do?"
Gerard escaped from the prison, and vowing he had done with Tergon, bade farewell to Margaret, and set off for Italy. Once across the frontier in Germany he was safe from Ghysbrecht's malice. He also had in his keeping the piece of parchment which gave certain lands to Peter Brandt, and which Ghysbrecht had hitherto held. II. To Rome
But even as the mule, urged suddenly by Martin's heel, scattered the flints with his hind hoofs ere he got into a canter, and even as Gerard withdrew his foot from Ghysbrecht's throat to run, Dierich Brower and his five men, who had come back for orders, and heard the burgomaster's cries, burst roaring out of the coppice on them.
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