Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-10-13

to give very different account of the matter.
He had known Mrs. Arnold from her infancy.
and he always declared that she knew all about
her husbands treason from the beginning, and
he used to relate scene which he said he wit
messed at the house of Mrs. Provost, whom he
aiterward married, which somewhat confirms
his opinion.
MRS. Arnold, 1t will be remembered, was sent
nome TO her father, escorted by party of horse
men. and remained for the night at the house of
MIS- Prevost, where COL Burr was. Mrs. Ar
mold, he said. burst into the room dressed in a
OF the house, when, seeing him in the dim light
OF the apartment. and not recognizing him, she
asked anxiOusly:
Am / safe? Is this gentleman friend?"
Upon discovering who he was. she told them
how she had deceived Gen. Washington, Col.
hamilton, and other American officers by her
frantic outcries; and she declared that she not
only knew of the treason, but that it was she
who had induced her husband to commit it,
Ihis was Col. Burrs story, to which the reader
may attach the credit which he thinks it de-
serves. Arnold himself does not say that she
was ignorant of his intention to surrender the
fortress. In the well-know letter which he sent
back to Gen. Washington from the Vulture, he
says:
From the known humanity of your excellen-
cy, am induced to ask your protection for Mrs.
Arnold from every Insult and injury that mis-
taken vengeance of my country may expose her
to. 1t ought to fall only on me; she is as GOOD
and as innocent as an angel, and is incapable OF
doing wrong"
The authorities of Pennsylvania believed.
with Burr, that she was traitor Her papers
were seized, and although nothing was found in
them to crlmnate her, she was not permitted to
remain at her fathers house, which she said she
desired to do. Her father offered to give Sc
curity that, during the war, she would write no
letters to her husband, and send to the govern
ment unopened anV letters she might receive
from MIN. His offer was refused and they Or
dered her to depart and not to return during
the war. Being then obliged to join her hus-
band in New York she soon recovered her
spirits and shOne in society. to use the language
OF the time, as "a star OF the first magnitude -
In England. too, whittier she accompanied
her husband, she attracted much attention
for her beauty. and was much fiattered in
tory circles. The British government gave
Arnold, in compensation for his American losses.
something less than $1,000, and settled upon
his family pension OF 81 GOO year, which was
TO be continued as long as either the husband
or the wife survived. Their family increased in
England. Arnold. finding himself pinched upon
an income of Fl 800 per annum, went upon a
trading voyage to Halifax, with what success is
not known. 1t was thought by some that he
was glad to leave England for while to escape
the contempt in which he was held even by those
who had employed him.
fOrty-three years. The infant whom she held in
her arms, as described above, entered the Brit
ish army in 1898, rose to the rank of lieutenant
general, and was still living as late as 1851 One
OF her grandchildren is clergyman in the
Church Of England, and, it Is said, very wor-
thy gentleman who has cOnversed with Ameri-
can visitors upon his grandfather in rational
and becoming manner Two of her sons settled
IN Canada, where they acquired competent es-
tateS and were living in 1920,