I told him that was needless, for a change was at his service, which he accepted. We were close pent up in a bed-room with a guard at the door and window. There was a spacious yard before the door which he desired he might be permitted to walk in with me. I accordingly disposed of my guard in such a manner as to prevent escape." Andre's mind was ill at ease, especially when informed that the documents taken from him had been sent to Washington and not to Arnold. He finally requested pen and paper, and wrote a letter to Washington disclosing who lie was, giving his version of his adventures and making very brave observations about his own nice sense of honor and his refined conception of how so singularly noble a British gentleman should be treated in the circumstances -- representations for which he continued to show special aptitude until the hangman's noose tightened about his neck. He instructs Washington as to the hitter's appropriate duty in these words: "The request I have to make to your Excellency, and I am conscious I address myself well, is that in any rigor policy may dictate, a decency of conduct toward me may mark that, though unfortunate, I am branded with nothing dishonorable." Then lie proceeds to display tin loftiness of his nature by this threat: " I beg the liberty to mention the condition of some gentlemen at Charleston, who. being cither on parole or under protection, were engaged in a conspiracy against us. Though their situation is not similar, they are objects who may be set in exchange for me, or are persons whom the treatment I receive might affect." Andre remained under close guard in the Gilbert house until sent for by Washington. There is nothing of special local Westchester County interest to add to Mr.