"There is one more request I wish to make of your excellency," Peter Gross replied.
"And that is—"
"That your excellency cancel the reward offered for the arrest of Leveque's daughter."
Van Schouten stroked his brow with a gesture of infinite weariness.
"You make strange requests, mynheer," he observed. "Yet I am moved to trust you. What you ask shall be done."
He rose to signify that the interview was at an end. "You may make your requisitions through Sachsen, mynheer. God speed you and give you wisdom beyond your years."
CHAPTER VII
Mynheer Muller Worries
Seated in a low-framed rattan chair on the broad veranda of his cottage, Mynheer Hendrik Muller, controlleur, and acting resident of Bulungan, awaited in perspiring impatience the appearance of his military associate, Captain Gerrit Van Slyck.