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Boxtel guessed the nature of the documents, and determined to make use of this knowledge at the opportune time in order to ruin his rival. The day Craeke arrived at Dordrecht with the order from Corneille de Witt to destroy the papers, van Baerle was in his drying-room, oblivious of the world and its revolutions, but enraptured by his success in the world of tulips.
With a telescope he watched the garden and the glass-covered drying-room where van Baerle kept his bulbs and records. Van Baerle, absorbed in his work, was utterly ignorant of the hatred of his envious neighbor.
When Corneille de Witt in January, 1672, had come to van Baerle, and, in the supposed secrecy of the drying-room, confided to his godson the state correspondence, Boxtel, telescope in hand, watched attentively all the movements. He saw the mysterious package pass from the hands of de Witt to those of van Baerle who enclosed it carefully in the drawer where he kept his best tulip bulbs.
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