The others and the pictures I stole out of Montalvo's room." "Indeed, most honest merchant, and what might you have been doing in his Excellency's room ?" "I will tell you," she answered, "for, as he never gave me my pay, my tongue is loosed.

He wished for evidence that the Heer Dirk van Goorl was a heretic, and employed me to find it." Brant's face hardened, and he became more watchful.
"Why did he wish such evidence ?" "To use it to prevent the marriage of Jufvrouw Lysbeth with the Heer Dirk van Goorl." "How ?" Meg shrugged her shoulders.

"By telling his secret to her so that she might dismiss him, I suppose, or more likely by threatening that, if she did not, he would hand her lover over to the Inquisitors." "I see.

And did you get the evidence ?" "Well, I hid in the Heer Dirk's bedroom one night, and looking through a door saw him and another young man, whom I do not know, reading the Bible, and praying together." "Indeed; what a terrible risk you must have run, for had those young men, or either of them, chanced to catch you, it is quite certain that you would not have left that room alive.

You know these heretics think that they are justified in killing a spy at sight, and, upon my word, I do not blame them.