[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] what vast results depend on thins.'* apparently trivial, favors the suppo-sition, in dwelling on this simple incident, that under the l'rovidence that disposes all human events, the fate of a nation may have heeu sus-pended upon a woman's judgment." The Smith here spoken of was the notorious Joshua Hett Smith, who acted as a go-between in the nego-tiations of Arnold and Andre. He was afterwards tried as particeps criminis with Arnold, but managed to escape punishment in consequence of contradictory or insufficient testimony. It was at his house, a square, two-storied stone house, still standing on the Haverstraw road, two and a half miles south of Stony Point, that Andre lodged while in the Amer-ican lines. The intention evidently was that An-dre should disguise himself in the uniform of an American officer and thus make his escape back to the British lines. Twice before he had been at General Arnold's headquarters in the disguise of a nikt de chambre, as he had been in the American lines at Charleston, South Carolina, during the previous month of May, disguised as a back countryman who had brought down cattle. So at least it is stated on apparently good authority. The refusal of Mrs. Beek-man to give up the uniform that was sought for him brought his hitherto successful career as a spy to a fatal and inglorious close.