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One
of
them
,
tall
,
majestic
,
stern
,
sat
down
near
the
table
on
which
Van
Baerle
had
placed
the
taper
.
In
this
figure
,
Boxtel
recognised
the
pale
features
of
Cornelius
de
Witt
,
whose
long
hair
,
parted
in
front
,
fell
over
his
shoulders
.
De
Witt
,
after
having
said
some
few
words
to
Cornelius
,
the
meaning
of
which
the
prying
neighbour
could
not
read
in
the
movement
of
his
lips
,
took
from
his
breast
pocket
a
white
parcel
,
carefully
sealed
,
which
Boxtel
,
judging
from
the
manner
in
which
Cornelius
received
it
,
and
placed
it
in
one
of
the
presses
,
supposed
to
contain
papers
of
the
greatest
importance
.
His
first
thought
was
that
this
precious
deposit
enclosed
some
newly
imported
bulbs
from
Bengal
or
Ceylon
;
but
he
soon
reflected
that
Cornelius
de
Witt
was
very
little
addicted
to
tulip-growing
,
and
that
he
only
occupied
himself
with
the
affairs
of
man
,
a
pursuit
by
far
less
peaceful
and
agreeable
than
that
of
the
florist
.
He
therefore
came
to
the
conclusion
that
the
parcel
contained
simply
some
papers
,
and
that
these
papers
were
relating
to
politics
.
But
why
should
papers
of
political
import
be
intrusted
to
Van
Baerle
,
who
not
only
was
,
but
also
boasted
of
being
,
an
entire
stranger
to
the
science
of
government
,
which
,
in
his
opinion
,
was
more
occult
than
alchemy
itself
?
It
was
undoubtedly
a
deposit
which
Cornelius
de
Witt
,
already
threatened
by
the
unpopularity
with
which
his
countrymen
were
going
to
honour
him
,
was
placing
in
the
hands
of
his
godson
;
a
contrivance
so
much
the
more
cleverly
devised
,
as
it
certainly
was
not
at
all
likely
that
it
should
be
searched
for
at
the
house
of
one
who
had
always
stood
aloof
from
every
sort
of
intrigue
.
And
,
besides
,
if
the
parcel
had
been
made
up
of
bulbs
,
Boxtel
knew
his
neighbour
too
well
not
to
expect
that
Van
Baerle
would
not
have
lost
one
moment
in
satisfying
his
curiosity
and
feasting
his
eyes
on
the
present
which
he
had
received
.
But
,
on
the
contrary
,
Cornelius
had
received
the
parcel
from
the
hands
of
his
godfather
with
every
mark
of
respect
,
and
put
it
by
with
the
same
respectful
manner
in
a
drawer
,
stowing
it
away
so
that
it
should
not
take
up
too
much
of
the
room
which
was
reserved
to
his
bulbs
.
The
parcel
thus
being
secreted
,
Cornelius
de
Witt
got
up
,
pressed
the
hand
of
his
godson
,
and
turned
towards
the
door
,
Van
Baerle
seizing
the
candlestick
,
and
lighting
him
on
his
way
down
to
the
street
,
which
was
still
crowded
with
people
who
wished
to
see
their
great
fellow
citizen
getting
into
his
coach
.
Boxtel
had
not
been
mistaken
in
his
supposition
.
The
deposit
intrusted
to
Van
Baerle
,
and
carefully
locked
up
by
him
,
was
nothing
more
nor
less
than
John
de
Witt
's
correspondence
with
the
Marquis
de
Louvois
,
the
war
minister
of
the
King
of
France
;
only
the
godfather
forbore
giving
to
his
godson
the
least
intimation
concerning
the
political
importance
of
the
secret
,
merely
desiring
him
not
to
deliver
the
parcel
to
any
one
but
to
himself
,
or
to
whomsoever
he
should
send
to
claim
it
in
his
name
.
