Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

The Laughing Cavalier Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

The shadow of the terrible tragedy-the concluding acts of which were being enacted day by day in the Gevangen Poort of 'S Graven Hage-had even touched the distant city of Haarlem with its gloom. The eldest son of John of Barneveld was awaiting final trial and inevitable condemnation, his brother Stoutenburg was a fugitive, and their accomplices Korenwinder, van Dyk, the redoubtable Slatius and others, were giving away under torture the details of the aborted conspiracy against the life of Maurice of Nassau, Stadtholder of Holland, Gelderland, Utrecht and Overyssel, Captain and Admiral-General of the State, Prince of Orange, and virtual ruler of Protestant and republican Netherlands.