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In this very drawer, indeed the papers deposited by the Warden of the Dikes with his godson were lying; a proof that the police had received very exact information. "Ah! you will not," said Van Spennen, when he saw Cornelius standing immovable and bewildered, "then I shall open the drawer myself."
On the following morning, therefore, they assembled, and decided on Van Baerle's arrest, placing the order for its execution in the hands of Master van Spennen, who, as we have seen, performed his duty like a true Hollander, and who arrested the Doctor at the very hour when the Orange party at the Hague were roasting the bleeding shreds of flesh torn from the corpses of Cornelius and John de Witt.
The magistrate cast a glance at a small note at the top of his papers. "All right," he said, like a man who is sure of his ground. Then, turning round towards Cornelius, he continued, "Will you give up those papers to me?" "But I cannot, Master van Spennen; those papers do not belong to me; they have been deposited with me as a trust, and a trust is sacred." "Dr.
"Well, Mynheer Boxtel, at this moment your neighbour Cornelius van Baerle is arrested for high treason." "Nonsense!" Boxtel muttered, with a faltering voice; "the thing is impossible." "Faith, sir, at any rate that's what people say; and, besides, I have seen Judge van Spennen with the archers entering the house." "Well, if you have seen it with your own eyes, that's a different case altogether."
"Halloa!" said Van Spennen, "you begin now to remember, don't you?" "Indeed I do, but you spoke of seditious papers, and I have none of that sort." "You deny it then?" "Certainly I do." The magistrate turned round and took a rapid survey of the whole cabinet. "Where is the apartment you call your dry-room?" he asked. "The very same where you now are, Master van Spennen."
"I am that person, Master van Spennen," answered Cornelius, politely, to his judge, "and you know it very well." "Then give up to us the seditious papers which you secrete in your house." "The seditious papers!" repeated Cornelius, quite dumfounded at the imputation. "Now don't look astonished, if you please."
"I vow to you, Master van Spennen," Cornelius replied, "that I am completely at a loss to understand what you want." "Then I shall put you in the way, Doctor," said the judge; "give up to us the papers which the traitor Cornelius de Witt deposited with you in the month of January last." A sudden light came into the mind of Cornelius.
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