The Mischianza Ticket 47 Lady's Head-Dress 48 The Joust at the Tournament 52 Fac-simile of Arnold's disguised Handwriting 65 Fac-simile of André's disguised Handwriting 65 Fac-simile of the Last Stanza of the Cow-Chase 78 The Smith House 82 Fac-simile of Arnold's Passport 87 Portrait of John Paulding 89 The Robinson House 95 "The '76 Stone House" 97 Washington's Headquarters at Tappaan 100 Passage from the Vulture 104 André's Monument in Westminster Abbey 107 Bowlder-Monument 109 Dean Stanley's Autograph 112 Memorial at Tappaan 116 Memorial at Tarrytown 120 Portrait of Anna Seward _face_ 125 NATHAN HALE. NATHAN HALE. CHAPTER I. In a picturesque region of Tolland County, Connecticut, twenty miles eastward of Hartford, situated upon an eminence which commands a beautiful and extensive prospect westward toward the State capital, there once stood, and perhaps now stands, a pleasant farm-house, built of wood, and two stories in height.[1] In that house, on the 6th of June, 1755, a child was born whose name appears conspicuous in our national history. It was a boy, and one of twelve children, whose father, Richard Hale, had emigrated in early life from Newberry, in Massachusetts, to Coventry, and there married Elizabeth Strong, a charming maiden eighteen years of age. He was a descendant of Robert Hale, or Hales, who settled in Charlestown, in 1632, and who seems to have been a scion of the Hales of Kent, for he bore their coat-of-arms--three broad arrows feathered white, on a red field. Both Richard and Elizabeth Hale were of the strictest sect of the Puritans of their day. They revered the Bible as the voice of God; reverenced magistrates and gospel ministers as his chosen servants; regarded the strict observance of the Christian Sabbath as a binding obligation, and family worship and grace before meals as imperative duties and precious privileges.