“And the people support the Prince … let him ask for anything we will give it him.”
William turned his brilliant eyes on the speaker.
“Why are you so devoted to His Highness?” he asked.
The fisherman reflected; he seemed puzzled.
“I know not—he is William of Orange,” he answered at last.
“You would trust him with the Captain Generalship——?”
“With everything—by God, I would! we are tired of M. de Witt.”
The Prince coughed and made no answer.
Knocking the ashes out of his pipe, the fisherman spoke again—
“He has kept the Prince out of his inheritance for twenty years.”