You will also inform General Gorlitz that, in my opinion, he pushed his reconnaissance much too far; but that I am well content with the bravery shown by the troops, and at the manner in which he drew them off on receipt of my order." In five-and-twenty minutes the colonel returned, and said: "I regret to say, your majesty, that Lieutenant Drummond is missing.

I have inquired among the officers and find that, as he was following General Gorlitz, he and his horse suddenly pitched forward and lay without movement.

Evidently the horse was killed by a cannon shot, but whether Mr.Drummond was also killed, they could not say." "We must hope not," the king said warmly.

"I would not lose so gallant a young officer, for a great deal.
"Keith, if we take Lobositz today, let a most careful search be made, over the ground the cavalry passed, for his body.

If it is found, so much the worse.