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 spoken to Philip, brother Ludovic would not stop. But afterwards, God knows how it was, he turned his horse and rode back to the Jew. And the Jew asked him if he were going to old Piet Grobelaar’s for the Brandtwacht sale. . . . Yes, that was the first that we knew of the sale.

Standing there in the road, speaking no word to Philip, Ludovic asked the Jew to stop the sale until he could fetch our brothers from their farms and together they would see what could be done to save the Brandtwacht lands. The Jew promised, and Ludovic, riding so hard as he could up the valley to Thys, and on to Rijk and Andries, sent our brothers one by one to Anna’s house asking for Philip and the Jew. And always Anna sent them on to old Piet Grobelaar’s, where Philip had gone for forage.

Last of all, from Vergelegen, came brother Lombard whom Ludovic had sent a boy to fetch. Lombard asked Anna:

“Where is the sale?”