Page:Augusta Seaman--Jacqueline of the carrier pigeons.djvu/185

Rh another pigeon, for the encouragement  of Leyden. Everyone who was not too weak with hunger to walk, haunted the summit of Hengist Hill to watch the advance of  the rescuers. It filled their hearts with new courage to note how small a space the besieging army was now forced to occupy,—only a ring little more than a mile wide all  about the city, with the threatening ocean  and a crew of desperate Sea Beggars on one  side, and the hunger-maddened populace of  Leyden in the center. The situation was certainly becoming a trifle embarrassing for the Spanish army!

Jacqueline occasionally went to Hengist Hill with Jan, who was now able to get about  quite briskly. Dr. de Witt insisted that she must get out and take fresh air and exercise,  and he was always willing to sit with Vrouw  Voorhaas while she was away. They never allowed the girl to go far alone, for all yet  feared the threat of Dirk Willumhoog to entrap her as well as her brother, and took