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The hotel porter, aroused by the advent of the traveller from an after-dinner nap in his little glass box, spread out his hands with a gesture of surprise. "The season is over," he said. "We are empty. Why you come to The Hague now?" Even the sentries at the end of the Korte Voorhout wore a holiday air of laxness, and swung their rifles idly.
"Do as you like," said the Advocate, calmly going on with his writing. When the letter was finished, it was sent to the judges for their inspection, by whom it was at once forwarded to the family mansion in the Voorhout, hardly a stone's throw from the prison chamber. Thus it ran: "Very dearly beloved wife, children, sons-in-law, and grandchildren, I greet you altogether most affectionately.
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