The proposition was hailed with acclamation, but who should invent the hieroglyphical costume?
All were reckless and ready enough, but ingenuity of device was required.

At last it was determined to decide the question by hazard.

Amid shouts of hilarity, the dice were thrown.
Those men were staking their lives, perhaps, upon the issue, but the reflection gave only a keener zest to the game.

Egmont won.

It was the most fatal victory which he had ever achieved, a more deadly prize even than the trophies of St.Quentin and Gravelingen.
In a few days afterwards, the retainers of the house of Egmont surprised Brussels by making their appearance in a new livery.