Mr.Warner came to Ohlau once before, and the business on which he came is common knowledge.

The motive of your visit now, which I tell you openly is very grateful to me, will surely be suspected." Wogan had reason that night to acknowledge the justice of the Prince's argument.

He accepted his hospitality, thinking that with time he would persuade him to allow the attempt; and after supper, while making riddles in verse to amuse some of the ladies of the court, one of them, the Countess of Berg, came forward from a corner where she had been busy with pencil and paper and said, "It is our turn now.

Here, Mr.Warner, is an acrostic which I ask you to solve for me." And with a smile which held a spice of malice she handed him the paper.

Upon it there were ten rhymed couplets.