Horror-stricken, the poor young creature, but one year a mother, and not two a wife, swooned and sank senseless upon the floor. Arnold dare not call for assistance, but kissing, with lips blasted by words of guilt and treason, his boy, then sleeping in angel innocence and purity, he rushed from the room, mounted a horse, hastened to the river, flung himself into his barge, and directing the six oarsmen to row swiftly down the Hudson, escaped to the Vulture, a British sloop-of-war, lying far belowj

THE STAIRCASE OF THE EOBINSOKS" HOUSE.

["Washington arrived at the Beverly House soon after Arnold left it. As yel no suspicion of treason had entered his mind. After a hasty breakfast, he crossed to "West Point, expecting to find Arnold there. *' I have heard nothing from him for two days," said Colonel Lamb, the commanding officer. "Washington's suspicions were awakened. He soon re-crossed the river, where he was met by Hamilton with papers just received revealing Arnold's guilt. He called in Knox and Lafayette for counsel. " "Whom can we trust now ? " he inquired with calmness, while

THE HUDSON.

deep sorrow evidently stirred his bosom. At the same time the condition of Mrs. Arnold, who was frantic with grief and apprehension, awakened his liveliest sympathies. "The general went up to see her," wrote

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Hamilton in describing the scene. " She upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child, for she was quite beside herself. One moment she raved ; another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her