Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Paul Ereaut and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Cover and spine] [Illustration: She was going down the steps with him] [Transcribers note: A title has been created for an unlisted illustration on p102 of the original text and inserted into the list of illustrations.] _THE BOW OF ORANGE RIBBON_ A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK _BY AMELIA E. BARR AUTHOR OF "JAN VEDDER'S WIFE" "A DAUGHTER OF FIFE" ETC._ _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THEO. HAMPE_ _NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS_ Copyright, 1886, 1893 BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY _All rights reserved_ Typography Presswork BY ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL, BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, _Boston_ _Cambridge_. BY PERMISSION This Book is Dedicated TO THE _HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK_ [Illustration: ILLUSTRATIONS:] She was going down the steps with him May in New York one hundred and twenty-one years ago Joris Van Heemskirk Locking-up the cupboards She was tying on her white apron "Come awa', my bonnie lassie" Knitting Neil and Bram Tail-piece Chapter heading With her spelling-book and Heidelberg The amber necklace In one of those tall-backed Dutch chairs Tail-piece Chapter heading He heard her calling him to breakfast The quill pens must be mended A Guelderland flagon "A very proper love-knot" Tail-piece Chapter heading Hyde flung off the touch with a passionate oath Batavius stood at the mainmast He took her in his arms A little black boy entered Tail-piece Chapter heading "Sir, you are very uncivil" "Listen to me, thy father!" He took his solitary tea On the steps of the houses Tail-piece Chapter heading "Katherine, I am in great earnest" "In the interim, at your service" "Why do you wait?" The swords of both men sprung from their hands Tail-piece Chapter heading Oh, how she wept! "O Bram! is he dead?" The streets were noisy with hawkers Katherine was close to his side Tail-piece Chapter heading In its satin depths Katherine knelt by Richard's side "I am faint" "Don't trouble yourself to come down" "Listen to me!" Tail-piece Chapter heading They stood together over the budding snowdrops His whole air and attitude had expressed delight "I am going to take the air this afternoon" "I will go with you, Richard" Tail-piece Chapter heading "Madam, I come not on courtesy" "O mother, my sister Katherine!" "Oh, my cheeny, my cheeny!" Plain and dark were her garments Tail-piece Chapter heading Katherine stood with her child in her arms The garden next fell under Katherine's care "Thou has a grandson of thy own name" Plate old and new "Make me not to remember the past" With a great sob Bram laid his head against her breast Chapter heading