Chapter

 1  6,2| Society of Haarlem offered a prize for the discovery (we dare
 2  6,2|     that the founders of the prize might just as well have
 3  7,1|     step towards gaining the prize offered by the Horticultural
 4  7,2|      guilders of the Haarlem prize to-the poor. And yet ---- " ~
 5  8,1|      year of grace 1673, the prize of a hundred thousand guilders
 6  8,1|   Van Baerle, would have the prize of a hundred thousand guilders,
 7 11,2|     know, or may not know, a prize of a hundred thousand guilders
 8 11,3|      Black Tulip for which a prize of a hundred thousand guilders
 9 13,2|      sure to buy with it the prize of the Haarlem Society? ~
10 23,1|     be certain to obtain the prize; and then the tulip, instead
11 25,2|    committee previous to the prize being awarded." ~"Oh, sir!"
12 26,1|     the black tulip, and the prize of a hundred thousand guilders.
13 26,1|   out that you had given the prize to a man for something which
14 27,1| appropriating to herself the prize of a hundred thousand guilders,
15 31,1|    ceremony of bestowing the prize should be a fete which should
16 31,2|      himself should give the prize of a hundred thousand guilders,
17 32,1|  faltering voice, - ~"Is the prize given to-day, sir?" ~"Yes,
18 32,1|     to-day, sir?" ~"Yes, the prize for the black tulip." ~Cornelius'
19 33,1|     has brought us here? ~"A prize of one hundred thousand