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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.
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.
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