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Updated: June 13, 2025
"But I don't see what he has to do with with " Arthur Miles hesitated before the terrible name. "Glasson? Oh, nothin'; on'y ten to one Gavel's met with the Mortimers, an', Glasson bein' on the track already W'y, what elst is the man 'ere for?" "He shan't take me," said the boy after a pause, and in a strained low voice which, nevertheless, had no tremor in it.
Perhaps the cry was drowned in the dog's ecstatic barking. "G'way!" He advanced unsteadily towards the edge of the basin, not perceiving, or at any rate not recognising the children, though close to them. "Let my cap be'ind," he grumbled; "elst they stole it." He drew himself up at the water's edge, a dozen yards or so wide of the Severn Belle's stern. "Oh, Bill!"
The Prince, who had risen, received them gravely, but at the same time in a cordial manner. "You bring further intelligence, Captain Van der Elst, from the field of Mookerheyde?" he said. "Of the main particulars I have already been informed by some few who escaped and made their way here."
Captain Van der Elst at once delivered to a gentleman-in-waiting his name and the object of his visit, and they had no time even to shake off the water which still clung to the lower part of their garments, when they were informed that the Prince desired to see them.
He bowed as he approached, gazing at her with a look of sorrow in his dark eyes which did not tend to reassure her, and without offering any other greeting, much as he might have desired it, he addressed himself to the burgomaster, who inquired in an anxious tone, "What news do you bring, Captain Van der Elst? Has Count Louis defeated the Spaniards? Has he yet formed a junction with the Prince?"
Captain Van der Elst continued shouting out, "Ride on! ride on!" more to show that he himself was unhurt than that there was any necessity to urge on Berthold. The Spaniards were evidently unwilling to trust themselves to the low ground for fear of finding that it was a morass, into which their steeds might plunge with little hope of extricating themselves.
"That would be a concertina," nodded Tilda, "or elst an accordion. Now try to think, becos' all this is very important . . . Where was this place? and what like was it?" He considered for a while, frowning to help his memory.
"I am also bound there, and will gladly accompany you," was the reply. "Pardon me, Van Arenberg, but the business I am on is of too great importance to brook delay." And Karl Van der Elst sprang on up the ascent at a rate which Baron Van Arenberg, without lowering his dignity, could not venture to imitate.
Albert, with the activity of youth, leaped down the steps, while the burgomaster prepared to descend with greater caution. "Baron Van Arenberg," he said, "I must request you to escort my daughter to her home, while Captain Van der Elst accompanies me to the Stadhuis, as we have matters of importance to discuss on our way.
"He still believes him to be honest, though wanting in spirit, and would, I suspect, even now let Jaqueline marry him if he were to press his suit and she were to consent." "That is not very likely to happen," said Albert. "She would be more ready to marry Captain Van der Elst." "I do not know," answered Berthold.
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