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Hi- f2 VX Itrl fi iS i W m m s 4s topqm8HSSiG58SS XiMntttmtttfuxtusxnarvrm I The Bow of Orange Ribbon A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK I J By AMELIA E BARR jj Author of Friend Ollvle I Thou and the Other OneEiia n Copyright 1680 by Dodd Mead and Company 4H444M44444 l CHAPTER VII Continued Now here was the real Katherine Her very presence her smiles her tears her words would he a consola tion bo far beyond all hope that the girl by her side seemed a kind of miracle to her She was far more than a miracle to Hyde As the door opened he slowly turned his head When he saw who was really there he uttered a low cry of Joy a cry pitiful in its shrill weak ness In a moment Katherine was close to his side She kissed his hands and face and whispered on his lips the sweetest words o love and fidelity Hyde was In a rapture He lay still speechless motionless watching and listening to her Hyde could speak little but there was no need of speech Had he not nearly died for her Was not his very helplessness a plea beyond the power of words And so quickly so quick ly went the happy moments Ere Katherine had half said I love thee Mrs Gordon reminded her that it was near the noon Then we must part my Katherine for a little When will you come again This was a painful question because Katherine felt that however she might excuse herself for the unfore seen stress of pity that all unaware had hurried her into this interview she knew she could not find the same apology for one deliberate and pre arranged Only once more Hyde pleaded I had my Katherine so many things to say to you In my joy I forgot all Come but once more Upon my honor I promise to aslc Katherine Van Heemskirk only this once To-morrow No Two days hence then Two days hence I will come again Then no more He smiled at her and put out his hands and she knelt again by his side and kissed her farewell on his lips And as she put on again her cloak and veil he drew a small volume to wards him and with trembling hands tore out of it a scrap of paper and gave it to her Under the lilac hedge that night she read it read it over and over the bit of paper made almost warm and sen tient by Phpedrias tender petition to his beloved When you are in company with that other man behave as if you were absent but continue to love me by day and by night want me dream of me expect me think of me wish for me delight in me be wholly with me in short be my very soul as I am yours CHAPTER VIII The Silver Link the Silken Tie If Katherine had lived at this day she would probably have spent the time between her promise and its ful filment in self analysis and introspec tive reasoning with her own con science But the women of a century ago were not tossed with winds of var ious opinions or made foolishly sub tile by arguments about principles which ought never to be associated with dissent A few strong plain dictates had been set before Katherine as the law of her daily life and she knew beyond all controversy when she disobeyed them In her own heart she called the sin she had determined to commit by its most unequivocal name I shall make happy Richard but my father I shall deceive and disobey and against my own soul there will be the lie This was the poslton she admitted but every woman is Eve in some hour of her life The law of trutn and wisdom may be In her ears but the apple of de light hangs within her reach and with a full understanding of the conse quences of disobedience she takes the forbidden pleasure There are women who prefer secrecy to honest and sin to truthfulness but Katherine was not one of them If it had been possible to see her lover honorably she would have much pre ferred it but she knew well the storm of reproach and disapproval which would answer any such request and her thoughts were all bent toward de vising some plan which would enable her to leave home early on that morn ing which she had promised her lover But all her little arrangements fail ed and it was almost at the last hour of the evening previous that circum stances offered her a reasonable ex cuse It came through Batavius who returned home later than usual bring ing with him a great many patterns of damask and figured cloth and stamped leather At once he announced his intention of staying at home the next morning in order to have Joannas aid in selecting the coverings for their new chairs and counting up their cost He had taken the strips out of his pocket with an air of importance and complaisance anu Katherine glanc ing from them to her mother thought she perceived a fleeting shadow of a feeling very much akin to her own contempt of the mans pronounced self satisfaction So when supper was over and the house duties done she determined to speak to her Joris was at -a town meeting and Lysbet did not Interfere with the lovers Katherine found her standing at an open window looking thoughtfully into the autumn jfrden Mijn moeder Mijn kind Let me go away with Bram in the morning Batavius I cannot bear About every chair cover he will call in the whole house Moeder you know how it will be To morrow I cannot bear him Very near quarrelling have we been for a week I know Katherine I know Leave then with Bram and go first to Mar garet Pitts and ask her if the new winter fashions will arrive from Lon don this month And look now Kath erine peace Is the best thing and to his own house Batavius will go in a few weeks Mijn Moeder sad and troubled are thy looks What is thy sorrow For thee my heart aches often mine and thy good fathers too Dost thou not suffer Can thy mother be blind Nothing hast thou eaten late ly Joanna says thou art restless all the night long Thou art so changed then that wert ever such a happy little one Hard is thy mothers lot The dear children I nursed on my breast they go here and they go there with this strange one and that strange one Last night ere to our sleep we went thy father read to me some words of the loving mother like Jacob They are true words Every good mother has said them at the grave or at the bridal If I am be reaved of my children I am bereaved There was a sad pathos in the homely old words as they dropped slowly from Lysbets lips Many a year afterward Katherine remember ed the hour and the words especially in the gray glooms of late October evenings The next morning was one of per fect beauty and Katherine awoke with a feeling of joyful expectation She paid a very short visit to the mantuamaker and then went to Mrs Gordons A coach was in waiting and In a few minutes they stood together at Hydes door There was a sound of voices within and when they enter ed Katherine saw with a pang of disappointment a fine soldierly look ing man in full uniform sitting by Richards side But Richard appeared to be in no way annoyed by his com pany He was looking much better and wore a chamber gown of maroon satin with deep laces showing at the wrists and bosom With an air that plainly said This is the maiden for whom I have fought and suffered is she not worthy of my devotion he introduced her to his friend Capt Earle But even as they spoke Earle joined Mrs Gor don at a call from her and Kather ine noticed that a door near which they stood was open and that they went into the room to which it led and that other voices then blended with theirs But these things were as nothing She was with her lover alone for a moment with him and Richard had never before seemed to her half so dear or half so fascinat ing My Katharine he said I have one tormenting thought Night and day it consumes me like a fever I hear that Neil Semple is well They will make you marry him my dar ling No that they can never do But I suffer in the fear I suffer a thousand deaths If you were only my wife Katherine Oh iny love my love See how I tremble Katherine Life scarcely cares to inhabit a body so weak If you refuse me I will let it go If you refuse me I shall know that in your heart you expect to marry Neil Semple the savage who has made me suffer unspeakable agonies Never will I marry him Richard never never My word is true You only I will marry Then now now Katherine Here is the ring Here is the special license from the governor my aunt has made him to understand all The clergyman and the witnesses are waiting Now Katherine Now now She rose and stood white and trembling by his side speechless also To her father and her mother her thoughts fled in a kind of loving terror But how could she resist the pleading of one whom she so tenderly loved and to whom in her maiden simplicity she imagined herself to be so deeply bounden And when Rich ard ceased to speak and only be sought her with the unanswerable pathos of his evident suffering for her sake she felt the argument to be irre sistible Well my Katherine will you pity me so far All you ask my loved one I will grant Angel of goodness Now At your wish Richard He took her hand in a passion of joy and gratitude and touched a smaSl bell Immediately there was a sudden silence and then a sudden movement in the adjoining room The next moment a clergyman in canonical dress came toward them By his side was Col Gordon and Mrs Gordon and Capt Earle followed The cere mony was full of solemnity and of that deepest joy which dims the eyes with tears even while it wreathes the lips with smiles During it Katherine knelt by Richards side and every eye was fixed upon him for he was almost fainting with the fatigue of his emotions and it was with fast re ceding consciousness that he whis pered rapturously at its flose My wife my wife Throughout the sleep of exhaustion which followed she sat watching him The band of gold about her finger fas clnated her She was now reallyj Richards wife and the first sensation of such a mighty change was in her pure soul one of infinite and reverent love When Richard awoke he was refreshed and supremely happy- The coach was waiting and with out delay Katherine returned with Mrs Gordon to her lodgings and then home As time went on without being watched Katherine felt herself to be under a certain amount of restraint If she proposed a walk into the city Joanna or madam was sure to have the same desire She was not for bidden to visit Mrs Gordon but events were so arranged as to make the visit almosc Impossible and only once during the month after her marriage had she had an Interview with here husband For even Hydes impatience had recogniz ed the absolute necessity of circum spection The marriage license had been ob tained from the governor but extra ordinary influence had been used to procure It Katherine was under age and yet subject to her fathers author ity In spite of book and priest and ring he could retain his child for at least three years and three years Hyde in talking with his aunt called an eternity of doubt and des pair Fortunately Joannas wedding day was drawing near and it absorb ed what attention the general public had for the Van Heemskirk family For it was a certain thing develop ing into feasting and dancing and it quite put out of consideration sus picions which resulted in nothing when people examined them in the clear atmosphere of Katherines home In the middle of the afternoon of the day before the marriage there was the loud rat-tat-tat of the brass knocker announcing a visitor It was Mrs Gordon and she nooded and laughed in a triumphant way that very quickly brought Katherine to her side My dear I kiss you You are the top beauty of my whole acquaint ance Then in a whisper Richard sends his devotion And put your hand in my muff there is a letter And pray give me joy I have just secured an invitation I asked the councillor and madam point blank for It Faith I think I am a little of a favorite with them How is the young Bruce My dear if you dont make him suffer I shall never forgive you Alternate doses of hope and despair that would be my prescrip tion Katherine shook her head On my wedding day as I left Rich ard this he said to me My honor Katherine is now in your keeping By the lifting of one eyelash 1 will not stain it My dear you are perfectly charm ing You always convince me that I am a better woman than I imagine myself I shall go straight to Dick and tell him how exactly proper you are Really you have more perfec tions than any one woman has a right to To morrow if I have a letter ready you will take it I will run the risk child Now adieu Return to your evergreens and ribbons And so lightly hum ming Katherines favorite song she left the busy house i Before daylight the next morning Batavius had every one at his post The ceremony was to be performed in the Middle Kirk and he took care that Joanna kept neither Dominie de Ronde nor himself waiting Katherine looked for Mrs Gordon in vain she was not in the kirk and she did not arrive until the festival dinner was nearly over Batavius was then considerably under the excite ment of his fine position and fine fare He sat by the side of his bride at the right hand of Joris and Kather ine assisted her mother at the other end of the table To be continued Sails for Skaters Considering the number of persons in this country that indulge in skat ing it is somewhat of a surprise to see how few of them have ever used a skate sail or in fact have ever heard of such a thing However in the last few years this sport has be come better known and it is not an uncommon sight to see dashing hith er and thither among the dark forms of the skaters the glistening sails of the skate sailors To the onlooker it seems at the first glance that the sailor must certainly lose his balance and topple over so sharply does he lean backward against his sail but so strong is the force of the wind exerted against it that this expected fall is seldom a reality When it does happen the un fortunate is usually a novice There are but few requisites for the enjoyment of this pastime First and of the most importance is a pair of sharp skates A few yards of cot toe cloth and some small poles fur nish the rest of the material From these any person can with a little care fashion a sail that will furnish him with many a happy hour Country Life in America The Merest Trifle Cholly I find that its the twifles that worry me most in the world dont you know Miss Pepprey Yes Ive noticed that you think about yourself entirely too much for instance Must is a great peacemaker as well as a peace disturber WILL BE NO JREVISION STRONG WORDS BY SENATOR HALE OF MAINE There Will Be No Meddling With or Emasculation of the Present Tariff Whether Under the Guise of Reci procity or Reform Senator Hale of Maine one of the most influential men on the Republi can side of the Senate chamber says Neither this winter nor the next nor the winter thereafter unless Con giess loses its head will any revision of the tariff be made The results of the Dingley tariff act have been so generally happy that it Is difficult to understand the cry which is set up in certain quarters not by the people generally in favor of a revision The Dingley act has given the peo ple of the United States more rev enue more business more trade anu more prosperity than any bill ever en acted The people understand this and the late election shows that with certain exceptions entire content ex ists under present conditions It would be the height of folly now to try to disturb these conditions The free traders including almost all the Democratic leaders and the uneasy weak kneed Republicans who are howling for revision and reciproc ity would do well to take notice of what will happen provided they get their way It is absolutely safe to say that no tariff revision can take place except at the end of a long ses sion after a bitter and protracted fight which in itself will disturb near ly all and destroy some of our indus tries The outcome will be if any new bill is passed a practictlly Democratic tariff The combination on important schedules in the tariff between the uneasy Republicans and the entire Democratic force in Congress will in sure not a Republican measure but a Democratic one Nor can any par tial or limited revision be made with out entering into the construction of an entire bill and in fact there can never be any change in certain articles without entering upon the whole subject of tariff revision Besides this if it were possible no concessions on single articles in the tariff would for a moment stop the free trade and Democratic agitation for entire revision An eminent Demo cratic leader has said that there will be no rest until the infamous policy of protection is broken down and destroyed I am sure that what I say repre sents the general sentiment of the Republican party throughout the country It is the fashion of certain newspapers and a few prominent Re publicans to say that revision is need ed and that we will enter upon it in the next Congress but wherever the issue has been made whether In New England or elsewhere this proposi tion has gone to the wall It was tried in Massachusetts with failure as the result In the main a cry for revision means a new tariff built on anti-Republican lines Generally speaking if you scratch a reviser you find under neath a free trader Unless the Republican party has lest heart and faith in its fundamental policies there will be no meddling with and no emasculation of the pres ent tariff whether under the guise of reciprocity or reform In the long fu ture if a general revision is demand ed the Republican party will not be afraid to undertake it FRYE OPPOSES REVISION Would Spoil Prosperity and Cause General Business Depression Special to Xew York Times Washington Nov 25 Senator Frye of Maine does not sympathize with the agitation in favor of tariff revision Speaking of this question to day he said Talk of tariff revision is absurd The country is in the midst of great prosperity Why should we spoil it by entering upon legislation which would disarrange business relations and certainly cause depression over the country There is no demand for it in New England I suppose there may be people in Massachusetts who want some changes but they always have a few cranks in Massachusetts The Republican who ran for Congress on a revision platform was twice de feated in a Republican district It is equally absurd to propose tar iff revision as a means of regulating the trusts Suppose we should at tempt to reduce the tariff on articles made by trusts Smaller concerns engaged in similar business would be affected by the new rates just the same as the trusts themselves What would be the result Small concerns would be most severely harmed and some of them would be driven out of business entirely while the trusts could better stand under tne new con ditions and would have a greater mon opoly than ever Senator Frye thinks it probable the Senate will complete such amend ments to the Sherman anti trust law as to correct the most obnoxious of the evils connected with the trusts I like the ideas put forth in the Pittsburg speech of Attorney General Knox said he There is no hope of restricting trusts by an amendment to the constitution If such an amendment should receive the neces sary votes in the Senate and House it could never be ratified by the states It would be regarded as too great an invasion of the rights of the states It Is Democratic Doctrine Again we see the Democrats aided by the free traders and tariff tinkers within the Republican party trying to overthrow the protective tariff Thoy make the attack Indirectly by claim ing that they seek to kill the trusts by cutting off protection from trust mado goods Feeding free trade poison to cure the truatevll as Speaker Hen derson says That protection fosters trusts is Democratic doctrine which Is not borne out by the facts but which nevertheless Is being embrac ed by certain Republicans thus play ing into the hands of the Democrats They seek to feed the trusts free trade poison but the most of the poi son would get into the system of American industry and make the American workman sick or kill him The President says we must be care ful to leave ample protection to the workingman and see that industry re ceives no sudden jolts He must know that constant changes or threat ened changes In tariff schedules will frighten manufacturers and cause them to curtail their product thus throwing the workman out of a job Free trade and tariff tinkering Is Democratic doctrine and should be left to the Democrats Portland Ore Chronicle REEDS LAST MESSAGE Important Expression by the Ex Speaker on Trusts and Tariffs In an article contributed to the North American Review for Decem ber ex Speaker Thomas B Reed adds materially to the sum of human knowledge and assists greatly to ward a clearer understanding of the tariff and trust problem No man who writes for publication surpasses Mr Reed in the faculty of logical analysis and the plain presentment of facts and conclusions Certainly no one succeeds better in the avoidance of the hysterical and the adherence to the sane and level headed method The spirit of prudence moderation and conservatism rules throughout Mr Reed is not a believer in quack remedies for a condition that calls for nothing more radical than pa tience and common sense Trusts are with us So have they always been in one form or another It is only because we are more prosperous than ever before that the trusts are more numerous and bigger than ever be fore Mr Reed is of the opinion that the trust problem will solve itself that those will survive which deserve to survive and those will perish which deserve to perish that legis lation of any sort at present offers no solution of the problem Least of all tariff legislation On this point Mr Reed is most convinc ing Tariff tinkering as a trust rem edy could not possible prove any thing but mischievous and hurtful He closes by saying We ought to let the tariff alone we ought to defend it against all com ers for the good of the nation We are doing more than well and need not hunt for disaster That will come in due time The surest way to hasten disaster is to tinker the tariff in any way or in any form whatsoever whether by di rect legislative action by swapping trade privileges or by te creation of a tariff commission Ah these are good things if let alone A Dangerous Flirtation 3 II S S i iW il 111 Coincidence to Be Avoided Democratic papers are calling at tention to the fact that since 1837 Mc Kinley was the first president to have a Congress in sympathy with him dur ing the middle of his presidential term and now President Roosevelt has the same advantage Of course they give us good advice and we can neither be too thankful for the same nor too careful not to follow it It might not be amiss to say to them in a spirit of kindness that if the people ever forget the hardships of 1S93 9G and again entrust Demo crats with the government they should be careful not to get at the same time a Congress composed of calamity howlers and a President who hates the industries of his coun try They then might expect to live long enough to see another Democrat in the White House The Alternative The Helena Mont Record of Au gust 11 quotes Mr Leonard Lewis a leading stockman of Meagher county as saying In my opinion the pres ent year has been one of the best and most successful from a live stock mans point of view which we have ever had in this country We are asked to abandon this condi tion and return to the days of tariff reform conditions of 1892 96 when the New York newspapers were giv ing out free food to the starving and the governor of Massachusetts was listening to mobs of unemployed They were not then concerned as to the price of beef They had had enough money to buy bread Boston Commercial Bulletin THE LIVE STOCK MARKET Latest Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City SOUTH OMAHA CATTLE Receipts of cattlo were very light so that It only took a compara tively short time for practically every thing In the yards to chango hands Buyers took hold quite freely and tho market was active from start to lln ish About the- usual proportion of tho re ceipts consisted of cornfed steers and somo of tho cattle showed considerable quality As high as 530 was paid which is the highest price in some little time They were western cuttle but were good and fat As a general thing the market did not show much change from Wednesday but soliers were call ing 16 all the way from barely steady to strong It was evident that packers did nob like the Idea of paying ttie prices asked but as they had to have a few cattle the kinds that suited them sold to good advantage while the kinds that did not strike them as favorably were hard to dispose of at steady prices The cow market was active and strong er from start to finish Buyers were all out early and bought up everything that was offered In good season The prices paid looked all tho way from strong to a dime higher Bulls veal calves and stags also sold at fully as good prices as were in force last Wed nesday There were very fow stockers and feeders in the yards and not many were wanted Speculators wero not looking tor much of a demand the remainder of this week and as a result they did not want any cattle unless they could buy them lower The market could probably best bo described by calling It slow and weak HOGS There was a light run of hogs hero and besides that about 18 cars were consigned direct to local packers and rot offered on the market Packers all needed fresh supplies and the market advanced right close to 10c Packers started out bidding- only about a nickel higher and a few hogs sold that way so that the general market was 5J10c higher The bulk of the sales went from 6 32 to JG37V SHEEP Owing to the destruction of the sheep barn by lire Christmas morn ing the sheep that arrived were yarded in the new hog division The pens are well covered so that the sheep are given as good protection from the weather as though they were housed in the regular barn The capacity is sufficiently large to handle all the sheep that will arrive for the next several months so that patrons of the market will be given the same service that they have always re ceived There were only six cars of sheep and lambs on sale and the quality of the most of them was rather inferior Three cars of Mexican ewes that were in just fair condition brought 365 and some western ewes sold at 300 and western wethers at 400 Considering the quality the market was pronounced steady to strong and everything sold In good sea son There were not enough feeders on sale to tell anything about the market but being so near the end of the week there were not many buyers In sight Quotations for fed stock Choice lambs 5003525 fair to good lambs J5Cr500 choice yearlings 400r4uO fair to good yearlings 375 5400 choice wethers 300 400 fair to good 325g360 choice ewes S350400 fair to good 300350 feeder lambs 30051400 feeder yearlings 3300S3E0 feeder wethers 2750323 feed er ewes 1503225 KANSAS CITY CATTLE Receipts 2000 head includ ing 400 head Texans stronger native steers 3255iGOO Texans and Indian steers 30O425 Texas cows 230300 native cows and heifers 1501100 stockers and feeders 20O425 bulls 255400 calves 27512025 HOGS Receipts 50CO head strong to 5c higher bulk of sales e20ft645 heavy G25fi50 packers Sfl10fI637 medium 025645 light 6171yigG35 Yorkers C30fG35 pigs 5505005 SHEEP Receipts 1000 head stronger muttons 300410 lambs 3C01i545 range wethers 300Si60 ewes 3001 420 MORE MONEY FOR MITCHELL Leader of the Miners Will Have His Salary Increased INDIANAPOLIS A motion will be submitted to the convention of the United Mine Workers increasing the salaries paid the president and secre tary At present Mr Mitchell re ceives 1800 and Mr Wilson 1500 The miners are looking forward to securing increased pay for themselves and want their executive officers to share their profits It is said the convention will be the largest ever held by the miners ao over 1200 delegates will be present as against 1000 last year Railroad Building in 1902 CHICAGO According to the Rail road Gazette railroad building in tho United States for 1902 aggregated 6026 miles a total not exceeded in any year since 1888 Second track sidings and electric lines are not in cluded Oklahoma leads with 570 Texas comes second with 496 Arkan sas is third with 371 and Indian Ter ritory is fourth with 363 miles Twenty thousand coal miners in the Connellsville coke regions Pennsyl vania will have their wages increase 8 per cent January 1 Simple Funeral for Bishop LONDON The remains of the arclv bishop of Canterbury were remove from the archepiscopal palace at Lam beth to Canterbury for interment There was no display The body was taken to the railroad station in a sim ple hearse followed by carriages con taining relatives of the deceased A surpliced choir sang an anthem at the station as the coffin was placed on board the train