It is no good stopping here; we must get food somewhere, or we shall faint." She rose without a word, and taking his hand they advanced together along the bank.

They had not gone twenty yards before John uttered an exclamation of joy and rushed at something white that had lodged in the reeds.

It was the basket of food which was given to them by the innkeeper's wife at Heidelberg that had been washed out of the cart, and as the lid was fastened nothing was lost out of it.

He undid it.

There was the bottle of three-star brandy untouched, also most of the eggs, meat, and bread, the last, of course, sodden and worthless.