weariness. ‘That’s to pay for thy kind remarks on the day I left Leyden!’ he said. ‘We will settle the rest later!’ Then he took my bag and examined it, wondering at the herbs, and finding the food and pigeon. ‘What hast thou here!’ he asked, ‘And why wast thou outside the walls!’ I told him we were hungry, and I had been trying to get some food by selling herbs. ‘Thou liest!’ he shouted. ‘What was this carrier pigeon for? I tell thee thou carriest messages to the enemy!’
“I said I had taken it so that in case I could not get back in time, I could send a message. ‘Well, I ’ll send the message,’ he replied, ‘and it will be somewhat differently worded, thou canst wager!’ What was it, Jacqueline?” The girl told him, and both together puzzled over the supposition that Dirk and Vrouw Voorhaas must sometime have met, and held some secret knowledge in common. She also told him what the
