They said there were many bad people on the road, and they did not know but he might be one of them. (He dismounted, when they took him into a thicket, and searched him J They found nothing to confirm their suspicions that he was not what he represented himself to be. They then ordered him to pull off his boots, which he did without hesitation, and they were about to allow him to dress himself, when they observed something in his stockings under his feet. When these were removed they discovered the papers which Arnold had put in his possession, finding himself detected, he offered them bribes to let him go. They refused ; and he was conducted to the nearest American post, and delivered to a commanding oflScer. That officer, with strange obtuseness of perception, was about to send the prisoner to General Arnold with a letter detailing the circumstances of his arrest, when Major Tallmadge, a blight and vigilant officer, protested against the measure, and expressed his suspicions of Arnold's fidelity. But Jamieson, the commander, only half yielded. He detained the prisoner, but sent the letter to Arnold. That was the one which the traitor received while at breakfast at Beverly (Robinson's House), and which caused his precipitate flight to the Vulture. The circumstances of that flight have already been narrated. ,'

Andre wrote a letter to Washington, briefly but frankly detailing the events of his mission, and concluded, after relating how he was conducted to Smith's House, and changed his clothes, by saying, "Thus, as I have had the honour to relate, was I betrayed (being adjutant- general of the British army) into the vile condition of an enemy in disguise within yo>n? posts." \Washington ordered Andre to be sent first to AVest Point, and then to