Contents

[ Chapter 1. A Grateful People ]

[ Chapter 2. The Two Brothers ]

[ Chapter 3. The Pupil of John de Witt ]

[ Chapter 4. The Murderers ]

[ Chapter 5. The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour ]

[ Chapter 6. The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier ]

[ Chapter 7. The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune ]

[ Chapter 8. An Invasion ]

[ Chapter 9. The Family Cell ]

[ Chapter 10. The Jailer’s Daughter ]

[ Chapter 11. Cornelius van Baerle’s Will ]

[ Chapter 12. The Execution ]

[ Chapter 13. What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators ]

[ Chapter 14. The Pigeons of Dort ]

[ Chapter 15. The Little Grated Window ]

[ Chapter 16. Master and Pupil ]

[ Chapter 17. The First Bulb ]

[ Chapter 18. Rosa’s Lover ]

[ Chapter 19. The Maid and the Flower ]

[ Chapter 20. The Events which took place during those Eight Days ]

[ Chapter 21. The Second Bulb ]

[ Chapter 22. The Opening of the Flower ]

[ Chapter 23. The Rival ]

[ Chapter 24. The Black Tulip changes Masters ]

[ Chapter 25. The President van Systens ]

[ Chapter 26. A Member of the Horticultural Society ]

[ Chapter 27. The Third Bulb ]

[ Chapter 28. The Hymn of the Flowers ]

[ Chapter 29. In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus ]

[ Chapter 30. Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle ]

[ Chapter 31. Haarlem ]

[ Chapter 32. A Last Request ]

[ Chapter 33. Conclusion ]

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