She thinks Mr. Evert Beekman more worthy of a place in a letter, than I do, perhaps.

Evert Beekman thinks there will be trouble, but he does not appear to fancy it will go as far as very serious violence.

I know that is Evert Beekman's opinion.

"If Bob is in the hands of an American party, the brother-in-law of Evert Beekman cannot come to much harm; with British Indians he will be respected for his own sake, as soon as he can make himself known.

NEW YORK: 18, BEEKMAN STREET.

The editorial offices were first established at 50 Wall Street, but later the brothers bought a lot and erected a building at the corner of Nassau and Beekman Streets, and that edifice had an important connection with the invention of the telegraph.

By Beekman C. Cannon.

Beekman C. Cannon (A); 5Mar75; R599727. R599739.

"What has become of Katiethe second waitress?" asked Miss Althea Beekman of Dawkins, her housekeeper, as she sat at her satinwood desk after breakfast.

Indeed, it may well have been that in the dimmer past some Beekman serf on bended knee had handed a gilded harp to some King O'Connell on his throne.

But all this entirely escaped Miss Althea, who suffered from the erroneous impression that because she was a Beekman and lived in a stone mansion facing Central Park she differed fundamentally not only from the O'Connells but from the Smiths, the Pasquales, the Ivanovitches and the Ginsbergs, all of whom really come of very old families.

But there was a somewhat curious if not uncommon inconsistency in Miss Beekman's attitude toward lawbreakers in that once they were in prison they instantly became objects of her gentlest solicitude.

"An' what may it be that leads you to send for such as me, Miss Beekman!"

Miss Beekman knew it.

The proud Miss Althea Beekman, the dignified descendant of a long line of ancestors, turned red.

It would make quite a story if Miss Althea Beekman got on the rampage.

Thus, without her knowing it, Miss Beekman was an essential witness and, in fact, the pivot upon which the entire case turned.

"I do!" declared Miss Beekman primly but decidedly.

" Miss Beekman paused.

" Judge Babson turned politely to Miss Beekman.

In her Beekman blood the chief justice, the ambassador, the great editor, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, stirred, awoke, rubbed their eyes and sternly reared themselves.

Tightly compressing her lips she sat silent in the chair, while the delighted reporters scribbled furious messages to their city editors that Miss Althea Beekman, one of the Four Hundred, was defying Judge Babson, and to rush up a camera man right off in a taxi, and to look her up in the morgue for a front-page story.

" Miss Beekman did not go to bed at all that night.

" Miss Beekman listened politely.

"Of course, gentlemen," he said, "I never had any real intention of dealing harshly with Miss Beekman.