CHAPTER XXVlil—Continued.
eS
Jack and Solomon exercised unusual
care In guarding the camp and organ-
izing for defense In case of attack.
ft was soon after Washington's depart-
ure that Arnold went away on the road
to the South, Solomon followed, keep-
Ing out of his field of vision. The gen-
eral returned two days later, Solomon
came into Jack's hut about midnight
of the day of Arnold's return with im-
portant news,
Jack was at his
map of the Highlands. The camp was
at rest. The candle In Jack's hut
was the only sign of life around head-
quarters when Solomon, having put out
his horse, came to talk with his young
friend. He stepped close to the desk,
swallowed nervously and began his
whispered report.
“Suthin’ neevarious be goin’ on,” he
began. “A British ship were lyin
nigh the mouth o' the Croton
Arnold went aboard. An’
desk studying a
the bush.
If 'twere honest business, why did
talk?"
Jack shook his head,
were on my mind.
“‘D—n the ol' British tub,
make ‘er back up a little
‘She's too clus anyhow,’
the water front o' her bow,
they were some hoppin’ eround on the
deck o' the big British war
down the river a mile ‘er so.
sun were set when Arnold an’ the
officer came out o' the bush. I were
in a boat with a fish rod an’ could jes
sce ‘em with my the light
were so dim, They stood thar lookin’
fer the ship. They couldn't see her.
They went back into the hush. It come
to me what they wus goin’ to do, Ar
nold: were a-goin’ to take the
Spy glass,
Smith,
bushes front o
'nough !—that's what
nold an’ t' other
an' went IhAto the house, "Tw
Sure
Ar-
the house.
were done.
feller come
ery <0
I ——
By IRVING BACHELLER
no heart. The message was from Sol-
omon. He had got word that the
British warship had come back up the
river and was two miles above Stony
Point with a white flag at her mast-
head,
“I went out of doors. Scon I met
Merriwether coming into camp. Ar-
nold had returned. He had ridden at a
walk toward the headquarters of the |
Second hrigade and turned about and |
come back without speaking to any
one, Arnold was looking down as If
absorbed In his own thoughts when |
Merriwether passed him In the road.
He did not return the latter's salute. |
It was evident that the general had |
being alone, i
“l went back to my hut and sat down |
to try to find my way when suddenly |
the general appeared at my door on |
with
we
little ride him. 1 mounted my
horse and rode out on the east
road together for half a mile or so
“Yes, 1 answered,
“'A British officer has eome up the |
In my
for a conference,
I enclosed a
quest
ngo,
some
letter from
Hale
home
Mrs
inwit-
Ing her to come to our
her lover
ue! officer of the A note re.
celved yesterday says that Miss Hare
is one of the party. We
be able to do you this little favor.
“I thanked him,
“*1 wish that
me down the river to
morning,’ he sald.
it will, of
rou be
staff,
you cou'd go with
her In the
‘But in my absence
be necessary for
Mrs. Arnold will
go with me and we shall, I hope, bring
the young lady
“He
meet
course,
to on duty,
safely tv headauarters.”
His
There
tone—I1
was preoccupled,
look.
in his
serious
melancholy note
Is 1
(41 ARNOLD WENT
a
1} i AWAY ON THE
| lll ROAD ro rug
} SOUTH,
‘twere them."
“How 7" the young man asked.
talk out loud like
I come erway.
“lI think you've done well”
Jack. “Now go and get
Tomorrow may be a hard day.”
Jack spent a bad night in the
fort to be as great his
In the morning he sent Solomon
three other able scouts to look the
ground over east, and south of
the army, One of them was to take
the road to Hartford and
messafe to Washington,
After the noon mess, Arnold
ed his and
honest men would
some
ef
as
and
west
mount
horse rode away alone
friend
Captain, the
on the ¢
“He Is
ed Captain Merriwether
" general hgs
ast road
fost well,
ravoline alone bis i
Aveling sione, Gree |
door. Jump on his
y in sight of the general,
snow what you
Mrs. Arnold
the office of the new brigadier
are
loing”
little later
most cheerful mood
*1 have good news for vou,” she an
nounced.
in a
confer
flag of truce
Arnold. 1
ship under a
with General
responsibility with
cial communication. Invited
come with the party and promised
her safe conduct to our house. |
expect her. For the rest we look to
you. Let us have a wedding at head-
quarters. On the night of the twenty-
eighth, General Washington will have
returned. He has agreed to dine with
us that evening.”
“lI think that she must have ob
the general's
while she spoke, a great fear had
come upon me,” he testified In the
court of inquiry. “It seemed clear
to me that, if there was a plot, the
capture of Washington himself was
to be a part of it and my sweetheart
@ helpful accessory.
“You know much that T am emger
to know,” 1 sald. ‘The general has
not told me that he Is to meet the
British. May 1 know all the good
news?
“Of course, he will tell you about
; that,’ sho assured me. “He has told
me only a little, It Is some negotia-
tion regarding an exchange of pris
oners. 1 am much more interested in
Margaret and the wedding, I wish
you would tell me about her, I have
heard thatsshe hus become very beau.
tiful.’
“I showed Mrs. Arnold the minia-
ture portrait which Margaret had
given me the day of our little ride and
talk In London and then an orderly
came with a message and that gave
an excuse to put an end to this
timely babbling for which I bad
with Lim
riendly it
ny fears at rest
the general what
the of
F CHise,
fone,
he
Pros i= SUCCess
“They are
swered
not promising”
“The defeat in
and the scattering of his army
rout not
he an-
of Gates
utter is an encouraging
event.
‘*1 think that we shall get
better now that the Gates bubble has
burst,’ 1 answered.”
This ends the testimony of
fable and most valued officer,”
Irons, Jr,
Juck
CHAPTER XXVIN
As an Army With Banners.
The American army had been sold
by Arnold. The noble ideal it had
cherished, the blood it had given, the
Jitter hardships it had saffered—tor-
ture In the wilderness, famine in thé
Highlands, long marches of half
naked wen in mid-winter, massacres
at Wyoming and Cherry Valley-—all
this had been bartered away, like a
shipload of turnips, to satisfy the
greed of one man. Again thirty pleces
of silver! Was a nation to walk the
bitter way to its Calvary? Major
Andre, the adjutant general of Sir
Henry Clinton's large force In New
York, was with the traitor when he
rowed from the ship to the west shore
of the Hudson and went into the bush
under the observation of Solomon
with his spy-glass. Arnold was to re
ceive a command and large pay In
the British army. The considefation
had been the delivery of maps show-
ing the positions of Washington's men
und the plans of his forts and other
defenses, especially those of Forts
Putnam and Clinton and Battery
Knox. Much other Information was
put In the hands of the British offi
cer, Including the prospective move.
ments of the commander in chief, He
was to be taken mn the house of the
man he had befriended. Andre had
»
B)
only to reach New York with his
treasure and Arnold to hold the con-
fidence of his chief for a few duys
and, before the leaves had fallen, the
war would end. The American army
and Its master mind would be at the
mercy of Sir Heanry Clinton.
Andre would have reached New
York that night if: The Vulture had
not changed her position on account
of a shot from the battery below
Stony Point, For that, credit must be
given to the good scout Solomon
Binkus. The ship was not In sight
when the two men came oft In thelr
boat from the west shore of the river
while the night falling. Arnold
fiad heard the shot and now that
was
s
thie
ery wus suspected.
“I may want to get away In that
boat myself,” he suggested to Andre.
“She will not until gets
the Britisher
return she
him,
“1 wonder what has become of her”
sald Arnold.
“She has probably
river for some
answered, "What
“I'll take you
man 1 know
and send you to
with
dow n
Andre
dropped
reason,”
am I to do?”
the of an
lives near the river
New York
the morning
house
who
horse
You
by
passports in
that,” Andre
afford we a
terrain.”
you a of |
you well enough.”
“You and
“1 would like
claimed. “It would
come survey of the
“Smith will
ex
wel
give sult
fit
the (traitor. he ure |
nbout of a size. It will be better for
you to be In citizens’
So it happened that
of the
Andre,
face mare,
said
dress.”
in the darkness
September evening Smith and
the the inzed.
for King's Ferry,
the
latter riding
set
were
rit
ous
where they tnken across
river. They rode a few miles son
the landing to the shore of Crom pond
end spent the night with a friend of
Smith, In the morning the Intter went
with Andre had p
Pine's bridge e Croton
turned
on until they pase
on th
back
fared
river
Now
road the
Nancy. He enme to an outpost of the
Highland
Andre along down the
alone on back of the mare
arn and
it ned
he went on his
transport «
and later, a
presser fend his
iy
DSS WAS exan and endorsed
He met
cavalry
¥ mill v
ment of militia
way
agons, fn
regi
In the faded hat
of Reuben
called himself
and
this m
Anderson,
farmer folk
and
Smith,
cont trousers
n. who
wns not much anlike
who were riding
ri-
different It
an English
dark eyes
furn gray.
A little
Ighway
the
aristocrat
wis well-kept
face of
with
hair begin.
and
to
out of Tarrytown on
traveled, a
group of three men were hidden in the
ragged,
lads wa
i the horseman
reckless
bush
country iting for cows to come
down out
milked
patriot mi a, some 1 hi:
ave sn
that they were farmers
the army.
been,
sons not
ay ha
! e undoubtedly ro
hard-fisted ve
epirit bred hy five
warfa
fiat m ve
11 of the lawless
years of desperate
re were looking
cattle. Tories
the In
hey
Torles as } for
hest prey, for
high i= to
cused from the oath of alleg
4
as
were thelr ric
would give rewn he ox
tne
They came out
lenged him, The
had passed the
and thought that
tritish tHe
Andre and chy
that 1
upon
iIntter Knew
American
he was near the
lines was not
He knew that the
so-cnlied
purties—the British being ealled the?
“Lower” and the Yankees the “Upper.”
“What party do you belong to?”
Andre demanded,
“The Lower”
Yankees,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Rare Sea Sheil
In a specially provided ease In the
foyer of the American Museum of
Natural History, there was exhibited
recently for the first time one of the
most highly prized cone shaped shells
ever found In the world, According
to sclentific authorities, it Is properly
called “The” Glory of the Sea”
It is about five inches in length, of
peculiarly slerfder appearance, grace
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bud. The ground color is pale ivory,
overlnld with a mosaic of thousands
of triangular figures ranging from an
eighth of an Inch. to almost micre
scoplcal size, These triangles are out-
lined In chrome yellow or deep chest.
nut brown,
sald one of the
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the age of seventy, married for
the fourth time,
“Why, Aunt Dinah” she exclaimed.
“you surely haven't married again?
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