I The Bow of Orange Ribbon f I#; A ROMANCE OF NEW YOIU§ '•, \ - t * * M By AMELIA E. BARR. | jUrtlMT ef Trlend Olivia..** 1 TKovi and tht Oth«r CMk" Eta. Oopyrtgfet, IW. by Do<WL Meid utt Oomptsr. All day Neil was busy in making hit will and in disposing of his affairs v, CHAPTER V.--Continued. Stell was intensely angry, and his their eyes glowed beneath dropped lids with a passionate hate. But he left his" father with an as sumed coldness and calmness. The sarcastic advice annoyed him, and he wanted time to fully consider bis ways. Hfe was no physical cow ard; he was a fine swordsman, and he felt that it would be a real joy to stand with a drawn rapier between himself end his rival. But what if revenge cost him too much? What if he slew Hyde, and had to leave his love and his home, and his fine business pros pects? To win Katherine, and to suarry her, in the face of the man Whom he feU that he detested; would lot that he the best of all "satisfac tions?" r . He walked about the streets, dis cussing these points with himself, till the shops all closed, and on the stoops of die houses in Maiden Lane and Lib erty street there were merry parties of gossipicg belles and beau*. Then he returned to Broadway. Still debating with himself, he cause to a narrow road which ran to the river, along the southern side of Van Heemskirk's house. Coming swiftly Hp it, as if to detain him, was Capt. Hyde. The two men looked at each other defiantly; and Neil said with a cold, meaning emphasis: "At your service, sir."* "Kr. Semple, at your service,"--and imirhiiig his sword,--"to the very hilt, sir." "Sir, yours to the same extremity." -As for the cause. Mr. Semple, here It is;" and he pushed aside his em broidered coat in order to exhibit to Neil the bow of orange ribbon be neath it "I will dye it crjmpon In your blood," said Neil passionately. "In the meantime. I have the felicity of wearing it;" and with an offensively deep salute, he terminated the inter- tiew. CHAPTER VI. At the-Sword's Point. Neil's first emotion was not so much one of anger as of exultation. "I shall have him at my sword's point," he kept saying to himself as he turned from Hyde tb Van Heemskirk's house. (Catherine sat upon the steps of the stoop. Touching her, to arouse her attention, Neil said, "Come with me down the garden, my love." She looked at him wonderlngly, but ipse at his request and gave him her hand. Then the tender thoughts which had ' lain so deep in his heart flew to his Hps, and he woo'd her with a fervor and nobility as astonising to himself aa to Katherine. He reminded her of all the sweet intercourse of their hap py lives, and of the fidelity with which he had loved her.. "Oh, my Katherine, my sweet Katherine! Who is there that can take you from me?" "No one will I marry. With my father and my mother I will stay." "Yes, till you learn to love me as I lore you, with the whole soul. You are to be my wife, Katherine?" "That I have not said." "Katherine, is it true that Capt Hyde is wearing a bow of your orange ribbon?" "Yes. A bow of my St Nicholas rib bon 1 gave him." "Why?" "Me he lores, and him I love." "You have more St Nicholas rib bons? Go and get me one. Get a bow, Katherine, and give it to me. I will wait here for it" "No, that I will not do. How false, how wicked I would be, if two lovers *B>y colors wore!" "Well, then, I will cut my bow from Iljrde's breast I will, though I cut hia heart out with It" He turned from her as he said the words, and, without speaking to Joris, passed through the garden gate to his own home. In the calm of his own chamber, through the silent, solemn hours, when the world was shut out of his life, Neil reviewed his position, but he could find no honorable way out of the predicament He was quite sen sible that his first words to Capt. Hyde that night had been intended to provoke a quarrel, and he knew that he would be expected to redeem them by a formal defiance. However, as the idea became familiar, it became , Imperative; and at length it was with a fierce satisfaction he opened his desk and without hesitation wrote the decisive words: ,"To Capt. Richard Hyde of His llajes- . ty'8 service: 1 "Sir--A person of the character 1 bear cannot allow the treachery and dishonorable conduct of* which you have been guilty to pass without pun- r lshment. Convince me that you are more of a gentleman than I have rea son to believe, by meeting me to-night as the sun drops in the wood on the Kalchhook Hill. Our seconds can lo cate the spot; and that you may have no pretense to delay, 1 send by bearer two swords, of which I give you the privilege to make choice. the interim, at your service, "Neil Semple." 'MM* had already selected Adrian Beekman as his second, a young man • of wealth and good family. Beekman accepted the duty with alacrity, and, Indeed, so promptly carried out his principal's instructions, that he found Capt. Hyde still sleeping when he waited upon him. Hyde laughed light ly at "Mr. Semple'B impatience of of fense," and directed Mr. Beekman to Capt. Earle as his second; leaving the choice of swords and of the ground entirely to his direction. Lightly as Hyde had taken the chal lenge, he was really more disinclined > to fight than Neil was. In his heart he knew that Ssmple had a just cause Ot anger; "but then," he argued, "I would not resign the girl for my life, for I am sensible that life, if she is another'^ wJU be a very tedious tiling to r"»-" " ' J Hyde felt equally the necessity for some definite arrangement of his busi ness. He owed many debts of honor and Cohen's bill was yet unscrtied He drank a cup of coffee, wrote sev eral important letters, and then went to Fraunce's, and had a steak and a bottle of wine. During his meal his thoughts wandered between Kath erine and the Jew Cohen. After it he went straight to Cohen's store. It happened to be Saturday, and the shutters were closed, though the door was slightly open, and Cohen was Bit ting with his granddaughter in the cool shadows of the crowded place. Miriam retreated within the deeper shadows of some curtains of stamped Moorish leather, for she anticipated the im mediate departure of the intruder. She was therefore astonished when her grandfather, after listening to a few sentences, sat down, and entered into a lengthy conversation. When at last they rose, Hyde extended his hand. "Cohen," he said, "few men would have been as generous and, at thrs hour, as considerate as you. I have judged from tradition, and mis judged you. Whether we meet again or rot, we part as friends." "You have settled all things as a gentleman, captain. May my white hairs say a word to your heart this hour?" Hyde bowed; and he con tinued, in a voice of .serious benignity: "The words of the Holy One are to be regarded, and not the words of men. Men call that 'honor' which He will call murder. What excuse is there in your lips if you go this night into his presence? There was no excuse in Hyde's lips, even for his mortal interrogator. He merely bowed again, and slipped through the partially opened door into the busy street Miriam returned to her place and asked plainly, "What murder is there to be, grandfather?" "It is a duel between Capt Hyde and another. It shall be called mur der at the last." "The other, who is he?" "The young man, Semple. Oh, Mir iam, what sin and sorrow thy sex ever bring to those who love it! There are two young lives to be put in death peril for the smile of a woman--a very girl she is." "Do I know her, grandfather?" "She passes here otten. The daugh ter of Van Heemskirk--the little fair one, the child." "Oh, but now I am twice sorry! She has smiled at me often. We have even spoken."., Cohen, with his hands on his staff, and his head in them, sat meditating, perhaps praying; and the hot, silent moments went slowly away. In them, Miiiam was coming to a decision which at first alarmed her, but which, as it grew familiar, grew also lawful and kind. A word to Van Heemskirk or to the Elder Semple would be suf ficient. Should she not say it? Perhaps Cohen divined her purpose, and was not unfavorable to it, for he suddenly rose, and, putting on his cap, said, "1 am going to see my kins man John Cohen. At sunset, set wide the door; an hour after sunset I will return." As soon as he had gone, Miriam wrote to Van Heemskirk these words: "Good Sir--This is a matter of life and death; so then, come at once, and I will tell you. Miriam Cohen." It was not many minutes before Van Heemskirk's driver passed, leading his loaded wagon; and to him she gave the note. That day Joris had gone home earlier than usual, and Bram only was in the store. He supposed the strip of paper to refer to a barrel of flour or some other household neces sity. Its actual message was so unusual and unlooked for, that it took him a moment or two to realize the words; then he answered tne summons for his father promptly. Miriam proceed ed at once to give him such informa tion as she possessed. Bram stood gazing at the beautiful, earnest girl, and felt all the fear and force of her words; but for some moments he could not rpeak, nor decide on Itis first step. "Why do you wait?" pleaded Miriam. "At sunset, I tell you. It is now near it Oh, no thanks! Do not stop for them, but hasten away at once." He obeyed like one in a dream. Semple was just leaving business. He put his hand on him, and said, "Elder, no time have you to lose. At sunset, Nell and that d English soldier a duel are to fight." "Eh? Where? Who told you?" "On the KUchhook Hill. Stay not for talk." "Run for your father, Bram. Run, my lad. God help me! God spare the lad!" At that moment Neil and Hyde were on the fatal spot Neil fii^ig off his coat and waistcoat and stood with bared breast on the spot his second indicated. Hyde re moved his fine scarlet coat and hand ed it to Capt. Earle, and would then have taken his sword; but Beekman advanced to remove also his waist coat. The suspicion implied by this act roused the soldier's indignation, and with his own hands he tore off the richly embroidered Batin garment, and by so doing exposed what perhaps some delicate feeling had made him wish to conceal--a bow of orange rib bon which he wore above his heart. The sight of it to Neil was like qil flung upon flame. He could scarcely restrain himself until the word "go" gave him license to charge Hyde. Hyde was an excellent swordsman and had fought several duels; but he was ouite disconcerted by the deadly reality of Neil's attack. In the sec ond thrust his foot got entangled in a tuft of grass, and, in evading a lunge aimed at his heart, he fell on his right Bide. Supporting himself, however, on his sword hand, he sprang backwards with great dexter ity, and thus escaped the probable death-bioW. But, as he was bleedtatf .ram a wound in the throat, his sec ond interfered and proposed a recoil* 'illation. Neil angrily refused to lis- :en. He declared "he had not come to enact a farce;" and then, happen ing to glance at the ribbon on Hyde's breast he swore furiously "He would make his way through the body of my man who stood between him and his just anger." Up to this point there had been In Hyde's mind a latent disinclination to 3lay Neil. After It, he flung away avery kind of memory, and the fight *as renewed with an almost brutal impetuosity, until there ensued one of hose close locks which it was evi- ient nothing but "the key of the body could open." In the trightful wrench which followed, the swords of both men spraug from their hands, flying some four or five yards upward with the force. Both recovered their weap ons at the same time, and both, bleed ing and exhausted, would have again renewed the fight; but at that mo ment Van Heemskirk and Semple, with their attendants, reached the spot Without hesitation, they threw themselves between the young men- But there was no need for words. Neil fell senseless upon his sword, making in his fall a last desperate effort to reach the ribbon on Hyde's breast; for Hyde had also dropped fainting to the ground, bleeding from at least half a dozen wounds. Then one of Semple'iS young men, who had probably divined the cause of quarrel, and who felt a sympathy for nis young master, made, as if he would pick up the fatal bit of orange satin, now dyed crimson in Hyde's blood. But Joris pushed the rifling hand fiercely away. "To touch it would be the vilest theft," he said. "His own it is. With his life be has bought it" CHAPTER VII. At "The Kino's Arms." The news ot the duel spread with the proverbial rapidity of evil newB. Bacavius heard the story from many a lip as he went home. He was bitterly indignant at ^Catherine. and hot with haste and anger when he reached Van Heemskirk's house. Madam stcod with Joanna on the front stoop, looking anxiously down the road. Just as Dinorah said, "The tea Is served, madam," the large figure of Batavius loomed through the gather ing grayness; and the women waited for him. He came up the steps with out his usual greeting; and his face was so injured and portentous that Joanna, with a little cry, put her arms round his neck. He gently removed them. "No time is this, Joanna, for em bracing. A great disgrace has come to the family; and I, who have always stcod up for morality, must bear it, too." (To be continued.) PLEASE^ A CURIO HUNTER. Tale Shows How Most Collections Are Made Up. Frank Barnick, the expert cabinet maker who was recently called from New York to Washington to complete the repair work at the White House, tells this story of the credulity of one White House visitor. "While covering one of the doors of the state dining room with a piece of ordinary leather, a visitor came to me and said: 'Oh, please tell me the history of that leather you are using.'" "The newness of the hide made me hesitate about declaring it to have been a part of the cargo long years ago of the Mayflower--or even that it came from cattle raised by the im mortal Washington. Knowing, how ever, that it must have an uncommon history to account for the lack of the signs age bringB, I replied that as fast as President Roosevelt shot a bear he was having the pelts tanned, and that what I was tacking to the door was the skin from a brute of the Missis sippi jungles recently killed. "I was as much amused as amazed to have her turn relic hunter on the spot and beg earnestly for a scrap of the stuff. She took a piece, her eyes beaming with pleasure, and it no doubt how forms a part of her collec tion of rare relics."--New York Times. An Excusable "Bull." Quite a good bull was made by Sir Thomas Myles, an eminent Irish surgeon, at a recent meeting of the Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating So ciety, in Dunlin. Sir Thomas was speaking of Cecil Rhodes, whom he greatly admired. He pictured the con dition of things in South Africa just previous to the Boer war, and asked with emphasis: 'At such a time was England to stand with her arms folded and her hands in her pockets?" He was somewhat disconcerted by the yell of laughter which arose, but after a moment or two joined In the merri ment, saying gooa-humoredly thaj his apology could be found in the fact that he was an Irishman. Needed Regulation. Gen. Andre, the French minister ol war, has issued a regulation forbid ding all corporal punishment in the French army. The new regulations are aimed particularly at the compan ies that garrison African posts. These are composed chiefly of soldiers who have been sentenced in ordinary criminal courts before their enlist ment. The cruelties practiced by subofficers in these regiments is all but beyond comprehension, and It is no uncommon case to have death re suit from them. One of the favorite modes of punishment is to smear the offender with fat and then expose him to the mosquitoes. Wants a Soldier for Archbishop. Emperor William of Germany has a problem of more than usual moment on his hands just now. His imperial majesty must sSon decide whether or not he is empowered to put upon the throne of the ancient archbishopric of Cologne his lifetime friend Col. Gen. Baron von Loe. ...The grave fea ture of the question is that if the kaiser follows his strong inclination and proclaims the appointment he must, to a degree at least, do so in defiance-of the Holy See at Rome, for It is a matter of common knowledge that the pope is generally opposed to the elevation of soldiers to U»e mitre and crozler. WOMEN UNITE TO OPPOSE > SEATING OF SENATOR SL^IOOT. IPSliSS^ ' & • MM I Active and organized efforts to pre vent the seating of Reed Smoot, elect ed United States senator by the Utah legislature, are being made. Promi nent women have combined In an at tempt to influence the senate to unseat him, the allegation being made that he practices polygamy and Is a firm b®» liever in the doctrines taught by the Mormon church. Mr. Smoot was born In Salt Lake City in January, 1862, has been since 1888 a member of the council of the twelve apostles of the Mormon church, and is, therefore, in direct line for the presidency. 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Lynch is an Australian by birth, but an Irishman by nationality and choice. In Australia,, the United States, England and South Africa he has ad vocated home rule for Ireland. His love of conflict overcame him when he reached South Africa as a war corres pondent and he became an active com batant. After an education received at Mel bourne university, at Berlin and Paris Col. Lynch took up practical engineer ing in Australia. He then went to Ire land and became a candidate for par liament, but was defeated. After a short residence In Paris he visited the United States. He then returned to London and became a journalist, vary ing the monotony by accompanying Sir Garnet Wolseley on the ABhanti expedition. When the Boer war begun in Paris, he was elected by his Irish friends to represent Galway in the house of commons. On his arrival in England, June 11, he was arrested on the charge of high treason and his trial and conviction followed. JOURNALIST HERE ON VISIT €ULJO?7TFUB JY7VARJ3 Col. 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It gees 'without saying that his early education was neglected, because, for sooth, this is his first visit to Ameri ca; nevertheless, he knows a deal more of our country than many of our selves know, and, while viewing our idiosyncrasies with that amused toler ance which no true Britisher can hide and which, in turn, 1B amusing to us, he is the most conspicuous, constitu ent and stanch friend of the United StateB to be found in London. He is also, in our judgment, the ablest of English journalists. It is well that he should come here and acquaint him self with our people, and it is fitting that we should express our pleasure of seeing him with our wish that he might remain longer.--Harper's Week ly. able attentiotf. His colleagues In th« house recognized the native Hawaiian delegate, Robert William Wilcox. Hit father was a native of Newport, R I., but his mother was a pure native of the island of Maui. 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