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 YSBERT rowed away frantically from the scene of destruction. He had not, for the moment, the slightest idea  what direction he was taking, but his mind  was actively at work. The wall of Leyden had fallen in for the space of nearly a quarter  of a mile! If the Spaniards had the faintest suspicion of this, he reasoned, they would  flock immediately to the scene, and make an  easy and terrible entrance. There was no defending the breach from the inside, for the  brave, but hunger-enfeebled corps of John  Van der Does would be as nothing before the  fierce thousands of the Spanish army. To his mind there remained but one course,—he  must in some way get word to Admiral  Boisot and his Sea Beggars, and let them