Part 26 (1/2)
He uttered these words loud enough for the chatty guard, as at his heels, to overhear hiive Cornelius soe, whilst the officer, with one foot on the step, was still giving some orders, he whispered to Van Baerle, -- ”Condemned prisoners have sometimes been taken to their on to be made an example of, and have then been executed before the door of their own house It's all according to circuns, and then said to hi consolation whenever an opportunity presents itself In truth, ed to you Goodbye”
The carriage drove away
”Ah! you villain, you brigand,” roared Gryphus, clinching his fists at the victi froets off without having restored ht Cornelius, ”I shall see, in passing my house, whether my poor borders have been ins to guess the Kind of Execution that aiting Van Baerle
The carriage rolled on during the whole day; it passed on the right of Dort, went through Rotterda, at least twenty leagues had been travelled
Cornelius addressed souard and his companion; but, cautious as were his inquiries, he had the disappointretted that he had no longer by his side the chatty soldier, ould talk without being questioned
That obliging person would undoubtedly have given hi this third strange part of his adventures as he had done concerning the first two
The travellers passed the night in the carriage On the followingthe North Sea on his left, and the Zuyder Zee on his right
Three hours after, he entered Haarlem
Cornelius was not aware of what had passed at Haarlenorance of it until the course of events enlightens hiht to know all about it even before our hero, and therefore we shall not make him wait
We have seen that Rosa and the tulip, like two orphan sisters, had been left by Prince Williae at the house of the President van Systens
Rosa did not hear again fro of that day on which she had seen hi, an officer called at Van Systen's house He cahness, with a request for Rosa to appear at the Town Hall
There, in the large Council Roo
He was alone, with a large Frisian greyhound at his feet, which looked at hilance, as if the faithful ani to do what no hts of hisfor anear the door, he said, without laying down his pen, -- ”Come here, my child”
Rosa advanced a few steps towards the table
”Sit down,” he said
Rosa obeyed, for the Prince was fixing his eyes upon her, but he had scarcely turned theain to his paper when she bashfully retired to the door
The Prince finished his letter
During this tian to caress her
”Ah, ah!” said Willia, ”it's easy to see that she is a countrywo towards Rosa, and fixing on her his scrutinising, and at the salance, he said, -- ”Now, my child”
The Prince was scarcely twenty-three, and Rosa eighteen or twenty He ht therefore perhaps better have said, My sister
”My child,” he said, with that strangely co accent which chilled all those who approached hian to tre but kindness in the expression of the Prince's face
”Monseigneur,” she stammered
”You have a father at Loewestein?”
”Yes, your Highness”
”You do not love hiht to do, Monseigneur”
”It is not right not to love one's father, but it is right not to tell a falsehood”
Rosa cast her eyes to the ground
”What is the reason of your not loving your father?”
”He is wicked”
”In ay does he show his wickedness?”
”He ill-treats the prisoners”
”All of thee for ill-treating some one in particular?”
”My father ill-treats in particular Mynheer van Baerle, who ---- ”
”Who is your lover?”
Rosa started back a step
”Whoneur,” she answered proudly
”Since when?” asked the Prince
”Since the day when I first saw him”