After they had advanced a little distance on their journey, the burgomaster, Laurentszoon, slid privately out of the sledge in which they were travelling, leaving his cloak behind him.

'Adieu; I think I will not venture back to Naarden at present,' said he calmly, as he abandoned his companion to his fate.

The other, who could not so easily desert his children, his wife, and his fellow-citizens in the hour of danger, went forward as calmly to share in their impending doom.
"The army reached Bussum, half a league distant from Naarden, in the evening.

Here Don Frederic established his headquarters, and proceeded to invest the city.

Senator Gerrit was then directed to return to Naarden, and to bring out a more numerous deputation on the following morning, duly empowered to surrender the place.