He knows us both, and will let us pass.

I'll speak to him.

Is the farm-house far inside the village ?" "No, outside on the road to Leyden." "Well then, we'll meet at Aquanus's tavern at four o'clock." "But the young lady--" "It will be time enough, if she learns at the gate who is to accompany her." When Georg came to the tavern at the appointed hour, he learned that Henrica had received another letter from Nicolas.

It had been given to the outposts by the Junker himself, and contained only the words "Until midnight, the Spanish watch-word is 'Lepanto.' Your father shall know to-day, that Anna is here." After the departure from the Hohenort Gate had been fixed for nine o'clock in the evening, Georg went to Captain Van der Laen and the commandant Van der Does, received from the former the discharge he requested, and from Janus a letter to his friend, Admiral Boisot.

When he informed his men, that he intended to leave the city and make his way to the Beggars, they declared they would follow, and live or die with him.