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to give a 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
messed at the house of Mrs. Provost, whom he
afterward married, which somewhat confirms
| his opinion.
Mrs Arnold, it will be remembered, was sent
nome to her father escorted by party of horse
men, and remained for the night at the house OF
Mrs Provost, where Col. Burr was. Mrs. Ar
! mold, he said, burst into the room dressed in q
riding habit, and was about to speak to the lady
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 frend?"
Upon discovering who he was. she told them
how she had deceived Gen. Washington, Col
Hamilton, and other American officers bv 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,
This was Col. Burr's 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 excelen.
cy, am induced to ask your protection for Mrs
Arnold from every Insult and injury that mis-.
taken vengeance of my country may expose hel
W. II ouSlIC W Idu OHly vi Ilc Sic Is as SOOO
| 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 crlminate her, she was not permitted to
remain at her fathers house. which she said she
| desired to do. Her father offered to give Sc.
curlty that, during the war; she would write nc
letters to her husband, and send to the govern.
ment unopened any letters she might receive
| from him. 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 hel
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 f1attered 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 .f1 600 year, which was
or the wife survived. Their family increased in
England. Arnold. finding himself pinched upon
an income of IL 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 a while to escape
the contempt in which he was held even by those
who had employed him.
Mrs. Arnold lived to 1904, when she died, aged
| fOrty-three years. The infant whom she held liz
her arms, as described above. entered the Brit
ish army in 1873, rose to the rank of lieutenant
general, and was still living as late as 1851. One
OF her grandchildren is a clergyman in the
Church of England, and, it is said a very wor.
thy gentleman, who has conversed with Ameri-
can visitors upon his grandfather in a rational
and becoming manner. Two of her sons settled
IN Canada, where they acquired competent es-
tateS and were living in 1920.