1^8 WINTER SKETCHES. 



viding Smith and Andre each with a pass, and 

 instructing the former to escort the latter to 

 a place of safety, whence he might find his 

 way to New York. 



Dr. Coutant has the facsimile of Andre's 

 pass from Arnold. It is written with a steady 

 hand on a bit of paper about the size of a half 

 page of a note sheet. Late in the afternoon 

 Smith and Andr6 mounted the two saddle- 

 horses that had been used in the morning, and 

 rode three or four miles up the river to the 

 ferry at Stony Point. The horses were taken 

 across with them in the scow which served for 

 the King's Ferry transit. Thus the landing 

 at Verplanck's Point was effected, but as 

 yet the spy and the traitor did not feel at 

 ease. 



Smith was a good pilot. After finding com- 

 fortable lodgings at the house of McKoy, a 

 Tory Scotchman, on the Yorktown road which 

 was taken in order to avoid the American 

 militia scattered along the river bank, they 

 went on in the morning to Pine's Bridge, 

 where they parted, Smith directing Andr^ to 

 take the road through to White Plains, and 

 thus avoid the river altogether. Last winter 

 Fanny and I traced them along this road and 



