299, 291-300 (general account, abundantly minute).] Home verily, in spite of Montalembert and all men.

"And for me, what orders has Excellency ?" Loudon had anxiously inquired, on the eve of that event.

"None whatever!" answered Excellency: "Do your own pleasure; go whithersoever seems good to you." And Loudon had to take a wide sweep round, by Kalish, through the western parts of Poland; and get home to the Troppau-Teschen Country as he best could.
By Kalish, by Czenstochow, Cracow, poor Loudon had to go: a dismal march of 300 miles or more,--waited on latterly by Fouquet, with Werner, Goltz and others, on the Silesian Border; whom Friedrich had ordered thither for such end.

Whom Loudon skilfully avoided to fight; having already, by desertion and by hardships, lost half his men on the road.

Glad enough to get home and under roof, with his 20,000 gone to 10,000; and to make bargain with Fouquet: "Truce, then, through Winter; neither of us to meddle with the other, unless after a fortnight's warning given." [Tempelhof, iii.