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Dr.
Cornelius
,
notwithstanding
all
his
modesty
,
had
not
been
able
to
hide
from
his
most
intimate
friends
that
he
was
all
but
certain
to
win
,
in
the
year
of
grace
1673
,
the
prize
of
a
hundred
thousand
guilders
offered
by
the
Horticultural
Society
of
Haarlem
.
It
was
just
this
certainty
of
Cornelius
van
Baerle
that
caused
the
fever
which
raged
in
the
heart
of
Isaac
Boxtel
.
If
Cornelius
should
be
arrested
there
would
necessarily
be
a
great
upset
in
his
house
,
and
during
the
night
after
his
arrest
no
one
would
think
of
keeping
watch
over
the
tulips
in
his
garden
.
Now
in
that
night
Boxtel
would
climb
over
the
wall
and
,
as
he
knew
the
position
of
the
bulb
which
was
to
produce
the
grand
black
tulip
,
he
would
filch
it
;
and
instead
of
flowering
for
Cornelius
,
it
would
flower
for
him
,
Isaac
;
he
also
,
instead
of
Van
Baerle
,
would
have
the
prize
of
a
hundred
thousand
guilders
,
not
to
speak
of
the
sublime
honour
of
calling
the
new
flower
Tulipa
nigra
Boxtellensis
,
--
a
result
which
would
satisfy
not
only
his
vengeance
,
but
also
his
cupidity
and
his
ambition
.
Awake
,
he
thought
of
nothing
but
the
grand
black
tulip
;
asleep
,
he
dreamed
of
it
.
At
last
,
on
the
19th
of
August
,
about
two
o'clock
in
the
afternoon
,
the
temptation
grew
so
strong
,
that
Mynheer
Isaac
was
no
longer
able
to
resist
it
.
Accordingly
,
he
wrote
an
anonymous
information
,
the
minute
exactness
of
which
made
up
for
its
want
of
authenticity
,
and
posted
his
letter
.
Never
did
a
venomous
paper
,
slipped
into
the
jaws
of
the
bronze
lions
at
Venice
,
produce
a
more
prompt
and
terrible
effect
.
On
the
same
evening
the
letter
reached
the
principal
magistrate
,
who
without
a
moment
's
delay
convoked
his
colleagues
early
for
the
next
morning
.
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
.
But
,
whether
from
a
feeling
of
shame
or
from
craven
weakness
,
Isaac
Boxtel
did
not
venture
that
day
to
point
his
telescope
either
at
the
garden
,
or
at
the
laboratory
,
or
at
the
dry-room
.
