ay what
Francis I., after the Battle of Pavia, wrote to his Mother: 'All is
lost except honor.' As I do not yet completely understand the affair,
I forbear to judge of it; for it is altogether extraordinary.--F." [_
Militair-Lexikon,_ iv. 305, 306 (Letter undated there; date probably,
"Gross-Nossen, October 3d").]

And never meddled farther with Zastrow; only left him well alone for the
future. "Grant me a Court-Martial, then!" said Zastrow, finding himself
fallen so neglected, after the Peace. "No use," answered Friedrich: "I
impute nothing of crime to you; but after such a mishap, it would be
dangerous to trust you with any post or command;"--and in 1766, granted
him, on demand, his demission instead. The poor man then retired to
Cassel, where he lived twenty years longer, and was no more heard of. He
was half-brother of the General Zastrow who got killed by a Pandour
of long range (bullet through both temples, from brushwood, across the
Elbe), in the first year of this War.

Chapter IX.--TRAITOR WARKOTSCH.

Friedrich's Army was to have cantoned itself round Neisse, October 3d:
but on the instant of this fatal Schweidnitz news proceeded (3d-6th
October) towards Strehlen instead,--Friedrich personally on the
5th;--and took quarters there and in the villages round. General
cantonment at Strehlen, in guard of Breslau and of Neisse both; Loudon,
still immovable at Kunzendorf, attempting nothing on either of those
places, and carefully declining the risk of a Battle, which would
have been Friedrich's game: all this continued till the beginning of
December, when both parties took Winter-quarters; [Tempelhof, v. 349.]
cantoned themselves in the neighboring localities,--Czernichef, with his
Russians, in Glatz Country; Friedrich in Breslau as headquarter;--and
the Campaign had ended. Ended in this part, without farther event of the
least notability;--except the following only, which a poor man of the
name of Kappel has recorded for us. Of which, and the astounding Sequel
to which, we must now say something.

Kappel is a Gentleman's Groom of those Strehlen parts; and shall, in his
own words, bring us face to face with Friedrich in that neighborhood,
directly after Schweidnitz was lost. It is October 5th, day, or rather
night of the day, of Friedrich's arrival thereabouts; most of his
Army ahead of him, and the remainder all under way. Friedrich and the
rearward part of his Army are filing about, in that new Strehlen-war