[The Rulers of the Lakes by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rulers of the Lakes CHAPTER VI 10/39
The door opened of itself, and he went in. Then the door closed of itself, and he did not come out again.
I waited ten minutes and then hurried to the one whom I serve with the news." Mynheer Jacobus turned to Tayoga and Robert. "I haf long suspected," he said, "that Hendrik Martinus iss a spy in the service of France, a traitor for his own profit, because he loves nothing but himself und his.
He has had remarkable prosperity of late, a prosperity for which no one can account, because he has had no increase of business.
Believing that a Frenchman wass here, a spy who wished to communicate with him, I set Peter to watch his house, und the result you know." "Then it is for us to go there and seize this spy," said Robert. "It iss what I wish," said Mynheer Huysman, "und we may trap a traitor und a spy at the same time.
It is well to haf money if you haf it honestly, but Hendrik Martinus loves money too well." He took from a drawer a great double-barreled horse pistol, put it under his coat, and the four, quietly leaving the house, went toward that of Hendrik Martinus.
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