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Rh 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