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Cornelius van Baerle, the godson of Corneille de Witt, and the custodian of their secret correspondence, was a young man of wealth and quiet tastes. He had declined to enter political life, and had retired to his ancestral home at Dordrecht where he spent his time and fortune in the cultivation of tulips.
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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