'They may help to make your bivouac more comfortable.
"'And now,' she said, 'there is something else, but I do not wish you to tell your master.' "What am I to do, your honour ?" "You had better keep it to yourself, Karl," Fergus laughed.

"I daresay I shall hear of it, someday." "Very well, lieutenant, then that is all there is to report." The next morning Fergus started early.

Two days previously, a Prussian governor had been appointed to Dresden, and three thousand men were left under his command.

Similar appointments were also made to all the fortified towns in Saxony; for now that the negotiations were broken off, and the King of Poland had declared finally for the Confederates, Saxony was to be treated as a conquered country.

Nevertheless, strict injunctions were given that all cattle, wheat, and other provisions taken for the use of the garrisons, or for storing up in fortresses whence it might be forwarded to the army, were to be paid for; and that any act of pillage or ill treatment was to be most severely punished, as the king was still most anxious to gain the goodwill of the mass of the population..