[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] >e in my power, I will, myself, furnish you with op-portunities for regaining the esteem which you have ormerly enjoyed." But kindness had no effect, and Arnold, madly bent tpon his own ruin, proceeded with his guilty plans. )n pretence of being disabled by his wound from ictive duty in the field, to which Washington, with-iut suspicion, invited him, he persistantly sought and inally obtained the command at West Point. His nstructions from Washington to assume the respon-ibilitics of the position assigned him were dated at Peekskill, on Thursday, August 3, 1780, and Arnold it once repaired to that post and set up his head-quarters at Robinson's house, two or three miles below West Point, on the east side of the Hudson River. Twenty-seven days later, on Wednesday, August 30th, vrnold wrote to Andre, under the assumed name ot Gustavus," that he expected soon to have an inter-u account of I lie failure of the plot, nud the discovery of the traitor, vidently pointed out tlie object of their allusions." The author of the interesting and somewhat remarkable French work f one hundred and eighty-four pages, published in Paris, in 1816, euti