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Will ye now ? '' `` Ay . '' THE CLOISTER Brother Clement , directed by the nuns , avoided a bend in the river , and striding lustily forward , reached a station some miles nearer the coast than that where Luke lay in wait for Gerard Eliassoen . And the next morning he started early , and was in Rotterdam at noon . He made at once for the port , not to keep Jerome waiting . He observed several monks of his order on the quay ; he went to them ; but Jerome was not amongst them . He asked one of them whether Jerome had arrived ?