[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] THE CAPTURE OF ANDRE 473 a horse to bo saddled, mounted him, told Major Franks to inform General Washington that he had gone to West Point and would return in an hour, hurried down the steep road to the river, entered his barge at Beverly Dock, and seating himself in the bow directed his oarsmen to row to midstream. Then priming his pistols, he ordered them to hurry down the river, stating to them that he had to go with a ilag of truce to the kk Vulture," and must hasten back to meet Washington. He tied a white handkerchief to a cane and waved it as he passed Colonel Livingston at Verplanck's Point, and that officer, recognizing the barge, allowed it to pass. In a short time he was safely on board the " Vulture." where he wrote a letter to Washington asking protection for Mrs. Arnold and proclaiming her innocence and that of his aides. He afterward received the price of his desertion, 0,315 pounds sterling, was made a brigadier-general in the British army, and turned his sword against his countrymen. At the close of the war he went to England, where his treason fol-lowed him like an avenging Nemesis and brought upon him many humiliations. In the United States his name became a byword and reproach to mark the depth of human degradation and villainy. After years of bitter disappointment, cares, and embarrassments his nerv-ous system failed him, sleep became a stranger to his eyes, and at