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164 approaching it, she recognized it as the scene of Gysbert's adventure in the canal. A shudder of apprehension shook her but she hurried on. It was do or die now, and nothing could have induced her to turn back.

Beaching the end of the Wirtemstrasse, she found herself at the bend of the canal  described by Gysbert. A meadow stretched out before her, and beyond that rose a section  of the grim wall of Leyden. There was not a soul in sight, and the girl began to think  that in some way she had been deceived. Concluding, however, that she might possibly be a little ahead of time, she leaned over the  rail of the stone bridge that crossed the canal, and waited.

Suddenly, without a warning sound, she felt herself seized from behind. Before she could even cry out, a bandage was clapped  over her mouth and fastened at the back of  her head. Instantly another was bound over her eyes and her hands were tied behind her  in spite of her desperate struggles. In all