at last the plates were all dry , and packed away again , this time in an ordinary crate : they were going to holland , it seemed , or at least the dutch captain was taking them away after some intense conversation with one of the officials , who consulted his records and shook his head a few times , and then at last reached a bargain : one of the chests which had been kept under lock and key in the pavilion was opened up , and oh , it was full to the brim of bars of gold , of which ten were carefully counted out , and then each separately wrapped by the officials in paper ; another , with an ink-pot and a brush , wrote upon them in large characters .