Adapted as a radio serial by H. Beaufoy Milton
Produced by Peter Creswell
Part 7, A Reconciliation and a Shipwreck
Characters
A Story-Teller ; Gerard Eliassoen ; Elias, his father; Catarina, his mother; Kate, his crippled sister; Giles, a dwarf, his brother; Margaret, his love; Dame Van Eyck, his patroness and friend ; Reicht Heynes, her servant ; Denys of Burgundy, a soldier of fortune
A Sea-Captain, a priest; sailors, traders, etc.
The scene is Holland and the Italian coast in the Fifteenth Century
Gerard, a young man of Tergou in Holland, is destined for the priesthood, but attempts, against his father's will, to marry Margaret, daughter of Peter Brandt. He is betrayed by his malicious brothers, Cornelius and Sybrandt, and imprisoned by the Burgomaster, Ghysbrecht van Swieten, who has in the past cheated the Brandts out of their rights in an estate. Gerard escapes, and on his way across Europe falls in with an arbalestier, Denvs of Burgundy. Denys is enrolled by force in a troop bound for the Flemish wars, and Gerard continues alone, not knowing that a free pardon has been obtained for both of them from the Duke. This news, written to him by Margaret, is intercepted by Cornelius and Sybrandt, who substitute a letter written by the Burgomaster to say that Margaret is dead.