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Rh was as exalted as though he had  seen some heavenly vision.

“What is the matter?” he asked. “Hast thou found Juffrouw Jacqueline?”

“Nay,” answered Jan, “I have not found her. But Pieter de Witt, I have just beheld the finest act of courage that it was ever the  lot of one poor man to witness! If Adrian Van der Werf can thus bear the sorrows of a  whole city on his heart, thou and I, through  God, must not shrink at the burdens His wisdom has seen fit to lay upon us!” And he  told the doctor of his morning’s experience.