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than ever, for she had presented a son
70 ILL., A Queer Trick Of Fate.
At West Point, or maybe before ne
cot there Arnold got in cOmmunlcsi-
ton with the British. AS rate "Sui1
have it, the man with WhOm ne - -
communication was the same - cS
who had been a sutton Tor Jne manu- ~
Drettv Peggy Shippen- Inere dLo
some historians who say Ihat Fe6Sy
Shipper kept up corr espOIIuelLss
with Andre from the time ne was ~
PbfIadeIDnia and that she laid pare
to Andre her husbands wrongs OF
fancied wrongs and the feelings ne en-
tertained and the feelings she enc
famed At any rate. Andre, clever
diplomatic. sauVe, was sent pL sen
eraI Clinton to deal with AEno!C- ~
was not a task that andre llAed5 Nc
was q soldier, so ne ODey5Q OIt1Sl =
Arnold sold himself, sold MS uOu9E
sold his country, and sold ms Soul -
agreed for money and Tor ONCE -
strip the posts along the HUDSON or
their troops and make II easy 1OE llL9
English to capture West Point ana
all the Qualifications along the uidJ-5s-
tic river This would at one SLEOAes
ont +he Young Republic in two and &C
cOmDlish what BurgOyne and CllntoH
had sought to do and 1alled no" Dy.
chance Andre was caught now -
mold advised of Andres capture ueG
from Stony Point to the British war
ship Vulture and escaped; how WaSlE-
ingtOn and Latay eEtes arriving -
commissions, is history 1t IS history
too that the one letter from Arnold to
Washington after the great betrayal
was a plea that the general protect
pretty Peggy from any danger that
might beset her through ArnOlds deed
OF treachery-
The English kept their bargain with
Arnold. They made a major general
of him. He added to his infamy BY
a barbarOus raid upon the Virginia
coast in which he burned and slew bis
fellow cOuntrymen- He increased the
hatred Of Americans by the atrocities
for which he was responsible on the
expedition he led against New Lon
don There Is story told or q con-
versation he had with an American
What Arnold asked, edo you sup
pose they would do to me II tneyf
HDo?" said the man. sThey would
cut off that leg that was wounded at
Quebec and at Saratoga and bury it
with the honOrs OF war, and then they7
would hang the rest Of you on the highs
est gibbet in the land"
Peggy Shippen's Sad End.
When the war ended Arnold went to
England He was a pariah- In very
few houses was he welcome Aner1-
cans stunned him as if he were a Ieper.
The English never did love a traitor
Wretched, indeed, was the life OF Ar
mold through the following years he
left the army and sought to make a
living as a merchant BE made one or
two trips to Canada, but did not dare
venture into the United States Every
where he went, he was pointed out as
the vile being who had betrayed his
native land
Peggy Shipper was a better wife to
Benedict after the great betrayal than
before. His misfortune seemed to
awaken in her a greater love. She bore
three children to him and then she died
heart broken
Arnold, universally execrated, almost
homeless, wandered the world over.
He Outlived his wife nearly a score OF
years When it came time for him to
die, he put on the old uniform he wore
as an American general. with the
epaulets and the sword knots which
Washington had given to him as the
bravest Of the brave and then, in an
gUish, he threw himself down. Let me
die in this" he said, the uniform in
which fought my battles God forgive
me for ever putting on any other
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