ely expressed by the Dutch
community when, in spite of having proved his accusations beyond a
doubt, Spoelstra was fined L100 and sentenced to one year's
imprisonment.

The fine was immediately paid by his friends.

Now, there was a brave Englishwoman, Mrs. Bodde, married to a
Hollander, who was shortly leaving for England, who offered her
services to Mrs. van Warmelo if the latter wished to make the
circumstances of the case known to Mr. Stead. This was an exceedingly
plucky thing to do, for the examinations on the frontier were much
more severe than usual, after the discovery of Spoelstra's letter.
Mrs. van Warmelo therefore promised to take extra precautions in
concealing the articles she wished to send. After a great deal of
trouble she succeeded in getting a full report of the Spoelstra trial,
sixty large pages of closely typed evidence on tissue paper, and with
this valuable material to dispose of Mrs. van Warmelo realised that it
would be necessary to exert the utmost ingenuity.

She asked her friend Mrs. Bodde whether she would be taking a
lunch-basket.

Certainly she would.

"Well," Mrs. van Warmelo said, "I will give you something for your
lunch-basket, if you will promise not to open it until you get to
London."

She promised, and Mrs. van Warmelo bought a tin of cocoa, a one-pound
tin, unfastened the paper wrapper carefully, then damped the paper
round the lid until it could be folded back without being damaged,
removed the lid and pulled out the paper bag containing the cocoa.
This bag she unfastened _at the bottom_, shook out fully two-thirds of
the cocoa and filled up the empty space with the tightly rolled packet
containing the documents, replacing the whole in the tin, cocoa side
up, of course, and pasting down the paper wrapper over the lid to make
it look like new.

Although there was very little cocoa in the tin, it was found to weigh
exactly one pound as before.

Arrangements were then made with Mrs. Bodde for her future
correspondence on the subject with Mrs. van Warmelo, and in due time
the latter received a note from Mrs. Bodde announcing her safe arrival
in London and saying that her friend Mrs. Brown (Mr. Stead) had
received her (the documents) with open arms. She was not going to live
in Mrs. Brown's house as she had intended (the documents would not be
published in the _Review of Reviews_), but she was going into a house
of her own (they would appear in pamphlet form).

This was