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While cleaning the lieutenant's cheval-glass, Jan, his valet, accidentally smashes the mirror. When the lieutenant comes home early in the morning after a drinking bout, he decides that he must shave and put on clean clothes. Fortunately for Jan...

Kee has been a widow for seven years when she meets the jolly butcher Meiblom, who wins her heart because, like her first husband, his name is Janus. After some time she tells her daughter and son that she intends to marry for a second time. The...

When he returns to Amsterdam after years as a cowboy in Texas, Jan Bolkenstein, because of his knowledge of foreign countries and languages, soon becomes the natural leader of a gang of criminals hanging out in the notorious pub The City of...

When Mr Jansen has to leave Amsterdam on a business trip to Watergraafsmeer, his young wife accompanies him to the railway station. On her way back home, when crossing Frederik's Square, she is accosted by Sintradelius, a lady-killer who declares...

The painter Henri Norwart takes his wife and child to the country, hoping that the fresh air will benefit his wife who is seriously ill. The doctor, seeing that she is losing ground, advises their speedy return to town. Mrs Norwart, conscious...

An old bargee and his wife have two sons, Willem and Hendrik, and a foster-daughter, Jeanne, a Belgian refugee. Willem, the older brother, is steersman on an ocean-going vessel and Hendrik works on his father's barge. Both men are in love with...

The King of Bragalia is old, dissolute and degenerate - he feasts whilst his people starve. A revolutionary party has been formed by Abraham Simel, who enlists the support of Captain Faroa, who is in charge of the King's Bodyguard. Faroa is in...

Prompted by stories heard from Mrs Howard, his sister's governess, Hugo Writley, the son of an American shipping magnate, travels to Holland accompanied by his steward, Longway. Mrs Howard is also on board the ship. Upon arrival in Amsterdam, the...