citizens on the occasion of its dedication, November 22, 1827. [The monument to the memory of Yan Wart is over his remains in ihe Greenburgh Presbyterian Church, near the lovely Neperan river, a few miles from Tarrytown. It was dedicated on the 11th of June, 18293^hcn the assembled citizens were addressed by General Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing. The monument was erected by the citizens of Westchester County. (The remains of Williams are at Livingstonville, Schoharie County; J no monument has yet been erected over them. -^

"History has told the rest," says the inscription upon the monument. In the next Chapter we will observe what history says.

|E have already observed the progress of Arnold's

treason, from, its inception to his conference with

Andre at the house of Joshua Hett Smith. There

we left them, Andre being in possession of sundry

valuable papers, revealing the condition of the post

to be surrendered, and a pass. He remained alone with his

troubled thoughts all day. The Vulture, as we have seen, had

dropped down the river, out of sight, in consequence of a

cannonade from a small piece of ordnance upon the extremity of

Teller's Point, sent there for the purpose by Colonel Henry

Livingston, who was in command at Yerplanck's Point, a few miles

above.

^n the afternoon Andre solicited Smith to take him back to the Vulture. Smith refused, with the false plea of illness -- but he offered to travel holf the night with the adjutant-general if he would take the land route. There was no alternative, and Andre was compelled to yield to the force of circumstances. He consented to cross the King's Ferry (from Stony to Yerplanck's Point), and make his way back to Xew York by land. He exchanged his military coat for a citizen's dress, placed the papers received from Arnold in his stockings under his feet, and at a little before sunset on the evening of the 22nd of September, accompanied by Smith and a negro servant, all mounted, made his way towards King's Ferry, bearing the following pass, in the event of his being challenged within the American lines : --