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. Andre, with a strong cavalry escort under command of Major Benjamin Tallmadge of the 2d Light Dragoons, left South Salem a little after midnight on the morning of the 26th by way of Long Pond .Mountain, North Salem meeting-house, Oroton Falls, Lake Mahopac, and Bed .Mills, where a halt was made at the house of Major James Cox. When Andre entered the house he stepped to a cradle where the infant daughter of the major was lying, and, being greeted with a smile from the little one, said, in a tone of deep melancholy tenderness, '' Happy childhood! We know its peace but once." After a short stop the cavalcade proceeded by the same road to Shrub Oak Plains, and from thence past the present residences of Charles 1*. Welde and Jonathan Currey, down Grey's Hill, and into the Peekskill Hollow Road, and from thence southerly to the then public house at the junction of the Albany Post Road and the Peekskill Hollow Road (now owned by Gardner Z. Hollman), where a halt was made for a few minutes. They then proceeded over Gallows Hill, where the spy Edmund Palmer was hanged three years before by Putnam, through Continental Milage, northerly over the King's Highway to the road leading westerly to Garrison's, then called Nelson's or Mandeville's.