Clark had warned him of the terrible consequences of holding out until the worst should come.

"For," said he in his note to the Governor, "if I am obliged to storm, you may depend upon such treatment as is justly due to a murderer." Historians have wondered why Hamilton became so excited and acted so strangely after receiving the note.

The phrase, "justly due to a murderer," is the key to the mystery.

When he read it his heart sank and a terrible fear seized him.

"Justly due to a murderer!" ah, that calm, white, beautiful girlish face, dead in the moonlight, with the wisp of shining hair across it! "Such treatment as is justly due to a murderer!" Cold drops of sweat broke out on his forehead and a shiver went through his body.
During the truce Clark's weary yet still enthusiastic besiegers enjoyed a good breakfast prepared for them by the loyal dames of Vincennes.
Little Adrienne Bourcier was one of the handmaidens of the occasion.
She brought to Beverley's squad a basket, almost as large as herself, heaped high with roasted duck and warm wheaten bread, while another girl bore two huge jugs of coffee, fragrant and steaming hot.