Enemy Spies: Nathan Hale and John Andre

By Karen Deal Robinson

This book can be read in two ways. The odd-numbered chapters are about the American spy Nathan Hale. The even-numbered chapters are about the British spy John Andre. If you read all the odd numbered chapters first, and then all the even numbered chapters, you will read about events in the order in which they occurred. But if you read them in the order in which they appear in this book, you’ll be more likely to see the eerie parallels in the lives and deaths of these two spies of the American Revolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312379602

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Enemy Spies: Nathan Hale and John Andre

Enemy Spies:

Nathan Hale and John Andre

Karen Deal Robinson

copyright 2014 by Karen Deal Robinson

cover design by Zhenille Robinson

cover cloth texture by Radu Luchian

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Nathan Hale

Chapter 2 John Andre

Chapter 3 Nathan Hale

Chapter 4 John Andre

Chapter 5 Nathan Hale

Chapter 6 John Andre

Chapter 7 Nathan Hale

Chapter 8 John Andre

Chapter 9 Nathan Hale

Chapter 10 John Andre

Chapter 11 Nathan Hale

Chapter 12 John Andre

Chapter 13 Nathan Hale

Conclusion--What Happened Later

Bibliography

Introduction

This book can be read in two ways. The odd-numbered chapters are about the American spy Nathan Hale. The even-numbered chapters are about the British spy John Andre. If you read all the odd numbered chapters first, and then all the even numbered chapters, you will read about events in the order in which they occurred. But if you read them in the order in which they appear in this book, you’ll be more likely to see the eerie parallels in the lives and deaths of these two spies of the American Revolution.

In particular, note the people who show up in both stories: Benedict Arnold, George Washington, John Montresor, Benjamin Tallmadge, and Alexander Hamilton.  Notice the time of year, late September.  Notice the Beekman Mansion, the papers hidden in shoes, the boats and pocket watches and letters.  And note that each of the two men had a friend who was present at the death of the other.

Chapter 1 Nathan Hale

September 7, 1773

New Haven, Connecticut

On a sunny fall morning, three young men walked together along a city street. Horses and carts and carriages clopped along on the packed earth beside them. 

Hold fast a minute, Tallmadge. Nathan stopped in front of Benedict Arnold’s drug store. I want to go in here one more time, before we leave New Haven.

Ben Tallmadge punched him on the shoulder. What do you want from the apothecary, Hale Second? Some cure for a lovesick heart? I know half the girls in New Haven are in love with you. Which one is it that makes you so sorry to go? Or do you regret that you’ve not yet kissed them all?

Nathan laughed and shook his head. He’d kissed one or two girls this past year. But it was his college friends he’d miss the most, Tallmadge and Wyllys and Hull and the others. He’d known them for four years, ever since he came to Yale. But now they were eighteen, ready to graduate and go out into the world as adults. 

Nathan’s brother Enoch said innocently, ‘Tis not a cure Brother Nathan seeks here, but books. And so do I. Arnold’s shop has a greater selection of books than any other in the neighborhood. We shall need books in our new callings.

Nathan gave Enoch a grateful look. Sometimes he got tired of Tallmadge’s constant teasing. He realized suddenly that he’d miss Enoch more than anyone else. 

Anyone looking at them would have known they were brothers. They both had the same light brown hair, cut short in a time when most men wore their hair in a braid. They both had a long straight nose and a wide straight mouth, and one eyebrow that rose slightly above the other, as though a little amused all the time. 

Enoch was the serious, quiet one. At college they called him Hale First, because he was the older brother. He had studied to become a minister. 

Nathan was more athletic. He’d set a record at Yale for the broad jump, and could kick a football higher than anyone in his dorm. He was planning to be a teacher, at least for now. In his secret heart, he thought he’d like to do scientific experiments, like Dr. Benjamin Franklin. 

Ben Tallmadge looked nothing like the brothers. He had wild curly black hair, and a head full of wild, romantic, dramatic ideas. He too would be a teacher for a while. 

Take your mind out of the gutter, now, Friend Tallmadge, said Nathan, "and come improve it with literature. Maybe you’ll find that copy of Cato you’ve been seeking." He opened the door and went in. 

Tallmadge lingered a moment in the doorway. "Ah, Cato! he said. He raised his hand in a dramatic gesture and quoted, ‘Who would not be that youth? What a pity it is that we can die but once to serve our country!’"

Enoch shook his head. I hope it will not come to that, he said seriously. 

The man behind the counter nodded to them. His black eyes watched them sharply. Welcome, Brothers Hale. I have a new shipment of books. Have you any money this time? I’m not a lending library, you know.

We have money, said Enoch. A graduation gift from our family.

Who is your young friend? said Arnold. 

Damon, said Nathan mischievously, and all three of them burst out laughing. 

My true name is Tallmadge, said Ben. Sometimes my friend calls me Damon, and I nickname him Pythias.

Arnold nodded. He didn’t need an explanation. Everyone knew the ancient story of Damon and Pythias, the two friends who had each been ready to die to save the other. "You are fortunate to have such a friend. Did you say you were seeking a copy of Cato? I have one, for eight