This is expressly reserved for the captain.

He is sure to get enough of it to-morrow." Thus admonished, the servant departed and the boatman was left to himself.

His companion had gone on shore with secret orders to make the best of his way to Prince Maurice, to inform him of the arrival of the ship within the fortress, and of the important fact which they had just learned, that Governor Lanzavecchia, who had heard rumours of some projected enterprise and who suspected that the object aimed at was Gertruydenberg, had suddenly taken his departure for that city, leaving as his lieutenant his nephew Paolo, a raw lad quite incompetent to provide for the safety of Breda.
A little before midnight, Captain Heraugiere made a brief address to his comrades in the vessel, telling them that the hour for carrying out their undertaking had at length arrived.

Retreat was impossible, defeat was certain death, only in complete victory lay their own safety and a great advantage for the commonwealth.

It was an honor to them to be selected for such an enterprise.