The fame of Mynheer van Baerle's tulips soon spread in the district, and while Cornelius de Witt had roused deadly hatred by sowing the seeds of political passion, Van Baerle with his tulips won general goodwill.

One day, to his horror, Boxtel discovered that his next-door neighbour, the wealthy Mynheer van Baerle, was also a tulip-grower.

IV.The Triumph of the Tulip Rosa reached Haarlem just four hours after Boxtel's arrival, and she went at once to seek an interview with Mynheer van Systens, the President of the Horticultural Society.

Are you not in the service of Mynheer Isaac Boxtel?" "I, sir?

" "Well, go and find Mynheer Boxtelhe is at the White Swan Inn, and settle it with him."

"Go, Mynheer Boxtel; you shall have justice.

And you, Mynheer van Systens, take care of this maiden and of the tulip," said the prince.

"You may rely upon id, mynheer, as long as my small sdore lasds," replied Josyna.

"We frightened Mynheer Hendrik Martinus, when we were in Albany, but I suppose

"Mynheer Van Zoon," he said, "this is young Robert Lennox.

Robert, Mynheer Van Zoon is one of our greatest merchants, and one of my most active rivals.

" Robert was about to extend his hand, but noticing that Mynheer Van Zoon did not offer his he withheld his own.

Ah, there goes Mynheer Adrian Van Zoon.

Whatever the feeling between them and whatever the cause might be, Robert felt that they had the advantage of Mynheer Van Zoon that night and were pushing it.

" Mynheer Van Zoon laughed and seemed not at all offended.

He rejoined in the same polite manner, and Mynheer Van Zoon talked to him a little while as a busy man of middle age would speak to a youth.

"Is it true," asked Mynheer Van Zoon, "that David Willet in a duel with swords slew a famous bravo?"

" "You knew him in his youth, Mynheer Van Zoon?" "I did not say that.

" Mynheer Van Zoon passed on a moment or two later, and Robert, with his extraordinary susceptibility to a friendly manner, felt a pleasant impression.

The evening progressed, but Mynheer Van Zoon left early, and then in the pleasures of the hour, surrounded by youth and brightness, Robert forgot him, too.

Danish and Swedish knights prolong the procession, mingling with Australian wool-growers, Members of the French Royal Academy, Canadian timber- merchants, Dutch Mynheers, Brazilian coffee-planters, Belgian lace- makers, and the representatives of all other countries and professions in Christendom.

This terrific native sovereign was taken captive by that famous Dutch navigator, the Mynheer Van Dunk, in his last voyage round the globe.

"A stately and sightly dame is she, madam," Peregrine answered, "towering high above her little mynheer, who outwardly excels her in naught save the length of nose, and has the manners of a boor.

Where was Mynheer Meyer in a strange town to get bail?

"Dis be a strange vay of paying a man his monish!" said Mynheer Meyer.