Chapter 35 Summary

The captain pays a visit to the van Vlaanderen family and tells them of the charge against their son. Jakob tells his sister to bring the Book, where at the front the names of the van Vlaanderens have been recorded for more than a hundred and fifty years. He crosses out Pieter's name. The captain leaves and Jakob orders the front door of the house to be locked, bolted and the key brought to him. He orders Tante Sophie to telephone Frans, Pieter's brother, and to tell him to come at once and when that is done to take everything Pieter has ever given them, every likeness and anything to do with him from the house and burn it.

Then he writes to Dominee Stander, to the Nationalist Party and the Farmer's Society and to every other club and society to which he...