Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 102: what you’re looking at

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108 GIDEON GODBOLD But vhe son of Phineas found that General Arnofa was still all-powerful in his barge, and that he was strengthless in the arrest of such an adversary. Now came Haverstraw. Its waters were wide and its air @as tree, and the traitor breathed more freely, for he had passed the great danger of his dreadful race; but he per- titted no relaxation to his weary boatmen. He cheered them with the hope that the port was near; but concealed from them the nature of that haven, | Soon the Vultwre came in view. The graceful sloop, with her teeth of iron and her hull of oak, slept on the bosom of ‘the Tappan Sea, As the cockswain doubled Teller’s Point, the General, with composure and even joy, astounded the erew by exclaiming : | ' “14 the Vulture.” | The men, however, were obedient. They did their duty and pulled alongside the sloop. The General announced his rank, and was soon on the yessel’s deck and in communica- tion with her Captain. “J come to seek refage beneath your yuns,” he said, “in consequence of an enterprise of moment, arranged between Major André and “myself, having been disclosed by his cap- ture, and I should be glad to~be at once conveyed to New York, that I may inform Sir Henry Clinton of the calamity.” “ Are these men also refugees with you ?” asked the officer, referring to the men in the barge. ‘ ts “Oh, no,” replied the General, “ they are merely my boat- meny and now of course your prisoners.” And these devoted mariners—six’ boatmen and a cockswain —who had made such mighty efforts on behalf of their traitor- chieftain, were now by him surrendered to captivity. But the British although they tenaciously sheltered the guilty Arnold, on a fu.. explanation, could not uphold the villainy practiced toward tena mei., and eventually gave them their liberty. COMME VIO S.COIn