[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] An incident or two from the second volume will give an idea of her courageous spirit and will, and shows that while she was personally lovely, she was also heroically brave. The story of the way in which she overawed the enemy under Colonels Bayard and Fanning is gathered from one of her own letters, written in 1777: " A party of royalists, commanded by these two Colonels, paid a visit to her house, demeaning themselves with the arrogauce and insolence she was accustomed to witness. One of them insultingly said to her: ' Ale you not the daughter of that old rebel, Pierre Van Cortlandt V ' She replied with dignity : ' I am the daughter of Pierre Van Cortlandt — hut it be-comes not such as you to call my father a rebel ' The tory raised his musket, w hen she, with perfect calmness, reproved him for his iusoleuca and bade him begone. He finally turned away abashed." Mrs. Beekman's agency in the detection and cap-ture of Major Andre was of great service to her coun-try, though at the time she little knew how important was the bearing of her resolute conduct upon the pub-lic cause. The incident is thus related in the sketch of her life, — 11 John Webb, familiarly known as * Lieutenant Jack,' who occasion-