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The prisoner was suffering himself to be led away to the inevitable scaffold without remonstrance, when Peter Hasselaer pushed his way violently through the ranks of the captors. "If you want Ensign Hasselaer, I am the man. Let this innocent person depart," he cried. Before the sun set his head had fallen. All the officers were taken to the House of Kleef, where they were immediately executed.
The tiffin, taken at Haarlem, had served only to give them an appetite, and this had been heightened by their exercise and swift sail upon the canal. "Come, mine host! Give us what you can!" cried Peter rather pompously. "I can give you anything everything," answered Mynheer Kleef, performing a difficult bow. "Well, give us sausage and pudding." "Ah, mynheer, the sausage is all gone.
"That will do." "Whew!" whistled Carl when they reached the street. Ludwig startled. "What now?" "Nothing, only Mynheer Kleef of the Red Lion little thinks how we shall make things spin in that same room tonight. We'll set the bolsters flying!" "Order!" cried the captain. "Now, boys, I must seek this great Dr. Boekman before I sleep.
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