Suggesting to the captain that they had best leave the cave due time with he departed and sent word to the committee. Crosby arrived at the barn m outside, the the Tories and laid down with them in the hay. Presently he heard a cough with the rangers. signal agreed upon, which he answered, and the barn was quickly filled purpose of Colonel Duer, of the committee of safety, had come with them for the express was ordered to protecting Crosby, and, indeed, had given the signal. The English captain in the secret, call his roll, but Crosby did not respond to his name. Townsend, who was not had escaped him prodded him out with a bayonet from the hay, and, recognizing the man who to his own at Fisbkill, promised to load him with irons. He shackled the spy, took him had drunk after dinner quarters, and confined him in an upper room. But when Townsend had enriched with plentifully of wine which the maid, instructed by the committee of safety, key which she took a gentle opiate, and was sleeping soundly, she unlocked the door with the from Townsend's pocket, and led Crosby forth to freedom. bands. He spent By such methods Crosby was instrumental in the capture of many Tory was known as Jacob several weeks in the family of a Dutchman, near Fisbkill, where he In December, one. was Birch Brown. He had numerous fictitious names, of which Harvey object of his journey 1776, he was sent to Bennington, Vt., by orders of the committee. The enemies of the country in was accomplished, for, besides apprehending a number of secret of them much that reoion, he obtained such information as enabled him to surprise a company trust himself again to nearer home. This was at Pawling, Dutchess County, and, fearing to a VV hig of the the vengeance of Captain Townsend, he arranged with Colonel Morehouse, When their rendezvous was neighborhood, to raise a body of volunteers and capture them. out from under a surrounded, Crosby, he having again made a false enlistment, was dragged so much injured that he bed, where he had taken refuge, and complained that his leg was and, of course, he soon could not walk.