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"It is useless to try to bribe me, for I do not know where the money is." "Very well, Heer Foy van Goorl, now we have a plain issue before us, but I will still try to protect you against yourself the warrant shall remain blank for a little while." Then he called aloud, "Sergeant, ask the Professor Baptiste to be so good as to step this way."
But he did not reply, for by now he had learned that he was no match for his father's bitter wit. Elsa received the message as she received everything else, in silence. Three days before, as after a fearful illness during which on several occasions she was at the very doors of death, Lysbeth van Goorl had been declared out of danger, Elsa, her nurse, ventured to leave her for a few hours.
It proved to be a very short document, under the terms of which Dirk van Goorl and his heirs inherited all the property, real and personal, of Hendrik Brant, upon trust, to make such ample provision for his daughter Elsa as might be needful or expedient; to apply the remainder of the money "for the defence of our country, the freedom of religious Faith, and the destruction of the Spaniards in such fashion and at such time or times as God should reveal to them, which," added the will, "assuredly He will do."
Upon the crisp grass behind her suddenly she heard a footfall, a new footfall, not that of the long, stealthy stride of Martha, who was called the Mare, and swung round upon her heel to meet it. Oh, God! Who was this? Oh, God! there before her stood Dirk van Goorl.
All readers of the history of the Netherlands know how the Burgomaster Pieter van de Werff saved Leyden from the Spanish. As for Dirk van Goorl, he sought his lodging rather tipsy, and arm-in-arm with none other than Captain the Count Don Juan de Montalvo.
"Mynheer van Goorl," said the Prince with grave courtesy, "be assured that I laugh at no true men such as yourself and your servant, Martin the Frisian, and least of all at men who could hold yonder shot tower against fifty Spaniards, who could escape out of Haarlem and bring home with them the greatest devil in Don Frederic's army.
Word had gone round that the Inquisition had sent soldiers to seize one of the young Van Goorls and Red Martin that they were battering at the gates of the factory. Therefore the citizens, some of them their own workmen, gathered there, for they did not think that Red Martin and Foy van Goorl would be taken easily. The hammering at the gate went on, but it was very stout and would not give.
"You were wise indeed, Heer van Goorl," replied the Prince with a sigh, "but it seems that you stopped behind?" "Yes, sir, Martin and I thought it our duty to see this war out. When Leyden is safe from the Spaniards, then we go to England, not before."
First there was Dirk van Goorl, whose work made an early riser of him to say nothing of a splitting headache which on this morning called him into consciousness just as the clock in the bell tower was chiming half-past four. Now there are few things more depressing than to be awakened by a bad headache at half-past four in the black frost of a winter dawn.
"And the third, the half-Spaniard, the traitor Adrian called van Goorl, he who has come here to-night to be baptised anew into the bosom of the Holy Church; he who signed the evidence upon which Dirk was murdered" here, again, the roar of hate and rage went up and beat along the roof "upon which too his brother Foy was taken to the torture, whence Red Martin saved him.
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