In the course of this Monday Friedrich ascertains that they are verily on the road; coming eastward, for Sommerfeld,--'thence for Crossen!' he needs no ghost to tell him.

Wherefore, "TUESDAY, SAGAN TO NAUMBURG.

Tuesday before daybreak Friedrich too is on the road: northwestward; in full march towards Naumburg on Bober, meaning to catch the Bridge from them there.

March of the swiftest; he himself is ahead, as usual, with the Vanguard of Horse.

He reaches Naumburg (northward, a march of 20 miles); finds, not Haddick or Loudon, but a Detachment of theirs: which he at once oversets with his cavalry, and chases,--marking withal that 'westward is the way they run.' Westward; and that we are still ahead, thank Heaven! "Before his Infantry are all up, or are well rested in Naumburg, Friedrich ascertains, on more precise tidings, that the Austrians are in Sommerfeld, to westward (again a 20 miles); and judges That, no doubt, they will bear off more to leftward, by Guben probably, and try to avoid him,--unless he can still catch them in Sommerfeld.