sable to go first to the widow
Vandersloosh, who was surprised at the sight of her dear corporal, and
much more enraptured when she heard that Mr Vanslyperken and his cur
had been hanged.

"I'll keep my word, corporal," cried the widow; "I told you I would not
marry until he was hung. I don't care if I marry you to-morrow."

"Mein Gott! yes, to-day."

"No, no, not to-day, corporal, or to-morrow either; we must wait till
the poor fellows are out of the hospital, for I must have them all to
the wedding."

"Mein Gott! yes," replied the corporal.

The widow then proceeded to state how she had been thrown into a
dungeon, and how she and Mynheer Krause, the syndic, had been released
the next day; how Mynheer Krause's house had been burnt to the ground,
and all the other particulars with which the reader is already
acquainted.

This reminded the corporal of the letters to Mynheer Krause, which he
had for a time forgotten, and he inquired where he was to be found; but
the widow was too prudent to allow the corporal to go himself--she sent
Babette, who executed her commission without exciting any suspicion, and
made Mynheer Krause very happy. He soon made his arrangements, and
joined his daughter and Ramsay, who had not, however, awaited his
arrival, but had been married the day after they landed at Cherbourg.
Mynheer Krause was not a little surprised to find that his son-in-law
was a Jacobite but his incarceration and loss of his property had very
much cooled his loyalty. He settled at Hamburgh, and became perfectly
indifferent whether England was ruled by King William or King James.

Ramsay's marriage made him also less warm in the good cause; he had
gained a pretty wife and a good fortune, and to be very loyal a person
should be very poor. The death of King James in the ear following,
released him from his engagements, and, as he resided at Hamburgh, he
was soon forgotten, and was never called upon to embark in the
subsequent fruitless attempts on the part of the Jacobites.

As it was necessary to write to the Admiralty in England, acquainting
them with the fate of Mr Vanslyperken, and demanding that another
officer should be sent out to take the command of the Yungfrau, a delay
of three or four weeks took place, during which the cutter remained at
Amsterdam; for Dick Short and Coble were no navigators, if they had
wished to send her back; and, moreover, she had so many of her crew at
the hospital, that she was