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. As soon as Washington's boat approached the shore on his return from West Point. Hamilton went toward the dock to meet his chief, whispered a few words to him, and both entered the house and were closeted together. The plot was then revealed. Hamilton and Major James McHenry. the aide of Lafayette, were hastily dispatched on horseback by way of Peekskill to Colonel Livingston at Verplanck's Point to head off Arnold in his escape, if possible, but on reaching that officer's post it was found that Arnold's boat had already passed down the river. After dinner Washington took Generals Lafayette and Knox into his confidence, and with choking voice and tears rolling down

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his cheeks revealed to them the dark conspiracy. " Arnold is a traitor and has flown to the British. Whom can we trust now?" wore the words of the great commander. At seven o'clock he wrote to Colonel Jameson to use every precaution to prevent Andre from making his escape, and to send him to the Robinson house by some upper road rather than by the more dangerous route of Crompond.