He was feeling dizzy and faint, now.
"Is the marshal in his room ?" he asked.
"He is in, sir, but--" "I would speak to him immediately.

'Tis a most urgent matter." The servant went in, a moment later held the door open, and said: "Will you enter, sir ?" Fergus entered, and made the usual formal salute to the marshal.
Two or three other officers were in the room, but he did not heed who they were, nor hear the exclamations of surprise that broke out at his appearance.
"I beg to report, sir, that the house of the Count Eulenfurst has been attacked by marauders, belonging to one of the Pomeranian regiments.

The count is desperately wounded, and I pray that a surgeon may be sent instantly to his aid.

The house stands back from the road, about half a mile from the north gate.

A man with a lantern will be standing in the road to guide him to it.