own people got away with it and his eyes wandered to the sail which hid the burden on the cart sir went on you heard right martin and i with a pilot man who was killed were they who got away with it and by the help of the who now is dead and who was known as mother or the mare we hid it in whence we recovered it after we escaped from if you care to know how i will tell you later but the tale is long and strange was with us at the time vol she is s only child and therefore the owner of his wealth f believe interrupted the prince yes sir and my wife i have heard of the young lady and i congratulate you is she in no sir her strength and mind were much broken by the horrors which she passed through in the siege of and by other events more personal to her therefore when the threatened their first of this place i sent her and my mother to in england where they may sleep in peace you were wise indeed van replied the prince with a sigh but it seems that you stopped behind yes sir martin and i thought it our duty to see this war out when is safe from the then we go to england not before when is safe from the and again the prince sighed adding well you have a true heart young sir and a right spirit for which i honour both of you but i fear that things being thus the cannot sleep so very peacefully in after all we must each bear our share of the basket answered sadly i must do the fighting and she the watching it is so i know it who have both fought and watched well i hope that a time will come when you will both of you do the loving and now for the rest of the story sir it is very short we read your in the streets this morning and learned from it for certain what we have heard before that you are in sore want of money for the defence of and the war at large therefore hearing that you were still in the city and believing this of yours to be the summons and clear command for which we waited we have brought you s treasure it is there upon the cart two scenes the prince put his hand to his forehead and back a step you do not jest with me van he said indeed no but stay this treasure is not yours to give it belongs to sir the legal title to it is in myself for my father was s lawful heir and and i inherit his rights moreover although a provision for her is charged upon it it is s desire � i have it written here under her hand and witnessed � that the money should be used every of it for the service of the country in such way as i might find good lastly her father always believed that this wealth of his would in due season be of such service here is a copy of his will in which he that we are to apply the money for the defence of our country the freedom of religious faith and the destruction of the in such fashion and at such time or times as god shall reveal to us when he gave us charge of it also his words to me were i am certain that thousands and of thousands of our folk will live to bless the gold of on that belief too thinking that god put it into his mind and would reveal his purpose in his own hour we have acted all of us and therefore for the sake of this stuff we have gone to death and torture now it has come about as foretold now we understand why all these things have happened and why we live this man and i to stand before you sir to day with the by a single no not even by martin s man you jest you jest said orange made a sign and martin going to the cart pulled off the sail cloth revealing the five mud stained barrels painted each of them with the mark b there too ready for the purpose were a hammer and resting the shafts of the cart upon a table martin climbed into it and with a few great blows of the drove in the head of a selected at hazard beneath appeared wool which he removed not without fear lest there might be some mistake then as he could wait no longer he the barrel up and shot its contents out upon the floor as it chanced this was the that contained the jewels into which days from time to time had converted the most of his vast wealth now in one glittering stream of red and white and blue and green breaking from their cases and that the damp had save for those pearls the most valuable of them all which were in the copper box � they fell to the open floor where they rolled hither and thither like beans shot from a sack in the i think there is only this one tub of jewels said quietly the rest which are much heavier are full of gold coin here sir is the so that you may check the list and see that we have kept back nothing but william of orange him not only he looked at the gems and muttered of ships armies of men of food means to bribe the great and buy � aye and the themselves wrung from the grip of spain the free and rich and happy god i thank thee who thus hast moved the hearts of men to the salvation of this thy people 