really trying to deliver Washington's command into the power of the enemy for a large bribe in British money and preferment.

The winter which followed in encampment near Morristown, New Jersey, exceeded the horrors, in some respects, of that at Valley Forge.

Lafayette returned to France to join forces with the French friends of liberty and helped Franklin and his colleagues in raising "sinews of war" for the struggle in the United States.

In the meantime Congress, petty and jealous, was afraid General Washington might use his too-great popularity to make himself military dictator, if not emperor of the United States. It was objected by that legislative body:

"That his influence was already too great; that even his virtues afforded motives for alarm; that the enthusiasm of

the army joined to the kind of dictatorship already confided to him, put Congress and the United States at his mercy; that it was not expedient to expose a man of the highest virtue to such temptations."

Though his bitterest enemies in the Conway cabal had been discomfited, there were still many in and out of Congress who were hostile to Washington. Not all the people were patriots even in those good old days. Greed, graft, selfishness, and venality prevailed then, and ghouls stood like buzzards, ready to feed upon the apparently dying

cause.

Then came the treason of Arnold, who had served his country with signal bravery.

This stung the heart of his friend, the commander-in-chief. When the dispatch was handed to him it is said

that he read it and clasped his hands

above his head as he exclaimed, in anguish of spirit:

"Whom can we trust now?"

But the emotion passed quickly, and Washington was again the stern, inflexible general, ordering and planning to capture the traitor and bring his British confederate, the brilliant and attractive young André, to justice. Arnold made his escape to the British and André was executed, as the British had hanged young Nathan Hale, an American patriot and spy. Yet sentimentalists made a great hue and cry over Washington's hardness of heart in not sparing young André, and a so-called poetess wrote some vitriolic verses beginning, "Remorseless Washington!"

"GONE TO CATCH CORNWALLIS"

Gates, the general favored by Congress, was sent south to stop the British ravages and outrages there. He failed signally, as Washington knew he would. Meanwhile, glad tidings came from Lafayette that France was to send soldiers, ships, and treasure in aid of the cause of liberty. But the promised French aid was a long time on the way. Washington, chained to the neighborhood of New York to watch Sir Henry Clinton, was kept in constant torture, hearing of the lingering fiasco in the South. On learning that his nephew, then in charge of Mount Vernon, had offered the British soldiers and sailors comfort and refreshment to save that beautiful estate, he wrote:

"Dear Lund: It would have been a less painful circumstance to me to have heard that, in consequence of your non-compliance with their request, they had burnt my house and laid the plantation in ruins."

At last word came that the French fleet would soon be in Virginia waters, and Washington stole away from his post near New York. He was well on his way to Virginia before Clinton missed him. As he and his men passed quickly through Philadelphia, the people cheered and shouted: "Long live Washington! He has gone to catch Cornwallis in his mouse-trap!"

The French met and coöperated with Washington by land and sea, and Cornwallis was trapped in Yorktown. After a long bombardment Cornwallis surrendered, in October, 1781. The British troops marched out to the tune of "The World Turned Upside Down."