A Gorcum friend extricated him; and, disguised as a carpenter armed with a footrule, he set forth on his travels to Antwerp.

Once certain that Grotius was safe, his wife informed the guard, and the hue and cry was raised.

But it was raised in vain.

At first there was a suggestion that the lady should be retained in his stead, but all Holland applauded her deed and she was permitted to go free.
The river, as I have said, must be still much the same as in Grotius's day; while the two towns Gorcum and Worcum cluster about their noble church towers as of old.

Worcum is hardly altered; but Gorcum's railway and factories have enlarged her borders.