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 followed 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 nervous system failed him, sleep became a stranger to his eyes, and at London, on Juno II, 1801, he died, " unwept, unhonored, and unsung." Not long after Arnold left the Robinson house Washington arrived, and on being informed that Arnold had gone to West Point took breakfast at about twelve o'clock and passed over with Generals Lafayette, Knox, and aides to that post, where he was surprised not to find Arnold. While Washington was across the river, Lieutenant-Colonel Jameson's second messenger, Captain Jerome Hoogland, with the captured papers and a letter written on the 21th by Andre at Salem to Washington, announcing who he was, arrived, and Alexander Hamilton, left at the Robinson house by Washington, opened them as his confidential aide.