Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 98: what you’re looking at

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#6 GIDEON GODBOLD. The hour appointed passed away, and breakfast was ‘an- nounced ; but, when the party assembled, General Washington and his friends had not arrived, and those in readiness watched from the windows for those who were expected. While thus engaged, a courier reached Beverley with dis patehes for General Arnold. These were delivered to him in the breakfast-parlor. His lip quivered as he reat. the super- scription, and the letter which he endeavored to unseal was mutilated by the unsteadiness of his fingers. He turned foward the window to conceal the violence of his emotions, then read the dispatch, grasped a chair to prevent himself from falling, and staggered out 0: the apartment. An instant afterward he summoned his ‘wife, and, a8 she entered her own apartment, to which he had retired, he exclaimed : “ Margaret, my ruin is accomp'shed, and my ete upon the speed with which I can leave here.” The young wife uttered- not a word. The Soria pierced her heart, and she fell upon the floor. Her husband thought only of flight; and, leaving her in this insensibility, he rushed to the river, leaped into his barge, and was the next minute flying down the Hudson. | The messenger of life had outrun the harbinger of death in their wild race—the letter of André reached- Arnold before the more fatal papers of Jameson found Washington, and the gulley dagitete, ess ce Mo ‘way. sy abides samenany a a shrine powerful enough to afford it ‘to him. © bid In the mean time General Washington and his friends. ar- rived at Beverley. ‘They were received only by the visitors at the house, who explained that the General had been sud- denly called away. Mrs. Arnold didnot reappear; and, as General Washington began to exhibit both hunger and impa- tience, the ladies undertook ths wokions Of ‘the table, “and breakfast commenced. — The utmost pleasantness prevailed, pees the absence of an nold was ascribed to some sudden duty, and that of his wife toca slight indisposition. These trifling incidents were not permitted to lessen the cheerfulness of the party. When breakfast was ended, the officers departed to visi+ the forts, accompanied by Horace, and then Isabelle and Alice, relieved from the obligations which had accidentally comichooks.conn