He said once: "'If you were to head up the major in a barrel, he could find a way out of it somehow.

He will be back soon.' "He seemed so positive about it that I was not a bit surprised when the messenger came, and said that you were at the count's here, and that I was to ride with him post haste, so as to catch you before you started to join the king at Breslau.
"Captain Lindsay was as pleased as I was.

He was just mounting when the messenger came in, but wrote a line on the leaf of his pocket book.

Here it is, sir." The slip of paper merely contained the words: "A thousand welcomes, my dear Drummond! I have been expecting you for some time.

I wish you had turned up here, instead of at Dresden.