That was all; yet it certainly cost Andre his life and Arnold his reward -- and ])ossibly cost King George a kingdom. Early on the twenty-first, Arnold had, in expectation of his meetine, left the Robinson house, his head-

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quarters, and proceeded to Verplanck's Point; from thence he went to the house of Joshua Hett Smith, on the opposite side of the river.

When he crossed over to Stony Point [to quote Judge Dykman's admirable account], he dispatched an officer in his own barge up the river to Peekskill creek, and thence up Canopus creek to Continental Village, with orders to bring down a row-

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boat from that place, and directed Major Kerse, the (juartermaster at Stony Point, to send the boat, the moment it should arrive, to a certain place in Haverstraw creek (now called Alinesecongo creek), which I assume to have been Colonel Hays's dock. . . . After receiving intelligence of the arrival of the boat, Arnold induced two of Smith's tenants ... to row Smith in the boat to the Vitltnrc that night and directed them to muffle their oars with sheepskin. There was an old lane leading from Smith's house to Colonel Hays's landing, through which they doubtless passed to find the boat. . The landing [of Andre, from the V';(/////-r] was made at a dock used as a shipping place for wood and stone. A portion of this dock still remains. There is an old stone house three hundred feet north of the dock and an abandoned stone quarry north of the house, and the landing place is therefore easily found. There was a road leading up from the dock to the Long Clove road and traces of that old disused way are yet distinctly visible.