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Boxtel, disguised as a burgher of the Hague, had made friends with the executioner, and hoped to get the tulip bulbs after the execution of van Baerle, but the commutation of the sentence again frustrated his plans, and, thinking Cornelius had the bulbs on his person, he decided to follow the prisoner.
Before him lay three bulbs which he was sure would produce the long-sought black tulip. Les admirables caïeux!... Et Cornélius se délectait dans sa contemplation, et Cornélius s'absorbait dans les plus doux rêves. Soudain la sonnette de son cabinet fut plus vivement ébranlée que d'habitude. Cornélius tressaillit, étendit la main sur ses caïeux et se retourna.
Gryphus did not discover Rosa's flight until five hours after her departure. He sought his friend Jacob; he too was gone. The jailer suspected him of having run away with his daughter. Rosa arrived safely at Harlem, but Mynheer van Systens declined to receive her. Thereupon she sent word that she came to speak of the black tulip. Instantly all doors opened before her.
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