"Open, and you will see!"
"I open not to thieves—honest men are all abed now."
"Open to the law, Martin Wittenhaagen, or you shall rue it."
"Why, that is Dirk Brower's voice, I trow. What make you so far from Tergou?"
"Open, and you will know."
Martin drew the bolt, very slowly, and in rushed Dierich and four more. They let in their companion who was at the back door.
"Now, Martin, where is Gerard Eliassoen?"
"Gerard Eliassoen? Why he was here but now?"
"Was here?" Dierich's countenance fell. "And where is he now?"
"They say he has gone to Italy. Why? What is to do?"