And when, the next morning, the doctor came to visit his patient, he brought with him a story how, at the dead of night, Mr.
Brock had roused the ostler at the stables where the Captain's horses were kept--had told him that Mrs.Catherine had poisoned the Count, and had run off with a thousand pounds; and how he and all lovers of justice ought to scour the country in pursuit of the criminal.

For this end Mr.
Brock mounted the Count's best horse--that very animal on which he had carried away Mrs.Catherine: and thus, on a single night, Count Maximilian had lost his mistress, his money, his horse, his corporal, and was very near losing his life..