Directly you had left the room, after your telling us that Lindsay was with Prince Henry and most likely at Erfurt, she said: "'I should think, father, that there would be time to fetch Major Drummond's servant and horse.

It is not so very far, and surely it might be done in a week.' "'Well thought of!' I said.

'It is a hundred and seventy miles.

A courier with relays of horses could do it in three days, without difficulty; and might be back here again, with Drummond's servant, in another four days.

I will give orders at once.