CHAPTER 8: Prague.
The next morning Fergus rode over to see Count Eulenfurst, found him quite restored to health, and was received by him, the countess, and Thirza with great pleasure.
[Illustration: Fergus was received by the count, the countess and Thirza with great pleasure] "My return in safety is in no small degree due to you, count.

Had it not been for the letter to Count Platurn, with which the countess furnished me, I doubt whether I should have been able to get through; or at any rate, if I had done so it could only have been with many hardships and dangers, and certainly great delay." "I have no doubt that the help you received from the count was of considerable assistance to you, and lessened your difficulties much, Captain Drummond; but I am sure you would have managed, without it.

Had you formed any plans as to what you would have done, had you found him absent ?" "I had thought of several things, count, but I had settled on nothing.

I should have remained but a day in Vienna, and should have exchanged the suit I had got from the innkeeper for some other.

My idea was that I had best join one of the convoys of provisions going up to Bohemia.