You will return by easy stages to Baden, and take the horses at once to Lord Rockingham.

They are his now.

Tell him my last wish was that he should take you into his service; and he will be a better master to you than I have ever been.

As for the King"-- his lips quivered, and his voice shook a little, despite himself--"he will be safe with him.

I shall go into some foreign service--Austrian, Russian, Mexican, whichever be open to me.