Czernichef got one, however.
Friedrich sent him one; that is to say, sent him one TO INTERCEPT.
Friedrich, namely, writes a Note addressed to his Brother Henri: "Austrians totally beaten this day; now for the Russians, dear Brother; and swift, do what we have agreed on!" [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ v.

67.] Friedrich hands this to a Peasant, with instructions to let himself be taken by the Russians, and give it up to save his life.

Czernichef, it is thought, got this Letter; and perhaps rumor itself, and the delays of Daun, would, at any rate, have sent him across.

Across he at once went, with his 24,000, and burnt his Bridge.

A vanished Czernichef;--though Friedrich is not yet sure of it: and as for the wandering Austrian Divisions, the Loudons, Lacys, all is dark to him.
So that, at Parchwitz, next morning (August 16th), the question, "To Glogau?
To Breslau ?" must have been a kind of sphinx-enigma to Friedrich; dark as that, and, in case of error, fatal.