CHAPTER X
THE BEGGARS OF THE SEA
“VR0UW VOORHAAS is decidedly better to-day, Juffrouw Jacqueline,” remarked Dr. Pieter de Witt as he left the bedside of the sick woman. “She is really coming out of this illness very well, thanks to thy careful nursing and our good Jan’s assistance.”
“Is it so indeed!” answered Jacqueline listlessly, striving to force herself to some show of enthusiasm. “Then am I right glad, for I have done my best, and thou hast been devotion itself. Dr. de Witt. Oh! if only—” She turned away her head to hide the tears that would come, and a sob stopped her further utterance. The good doctor understood, and busied himself over his patient till the girl had regained her self-control.
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