evil it will: we are just coming into Camp!'
said a cannonier, not knowing it was the King.

"The King said nothing. Walked on still a little while; then ordered,
'Blow out the lanterns; to horseback now!' and mounted, as we all did.
Me he bade keep five steps ahead, five and not more, that he might see
me; for it was very dark. Not far from the Lordship Casserey, where
there is a Water-mill, the King asked me, 'Have n't you missed the
Bridge here?' (a King that does not forget roads and topographies which
may come to concern him!)--and bade us ride with the utmost silence, and
make no jingle. As day broke, we were in sight of Strehlen, near by the
Farm of Treppendorf. 'And do you know where the Kallenberg lies?' said
the King: 'It must be to left of the Town, near the Hills; bring us
thither!'

"When we got on the Kallenberg, it was not quite day; and we had to halt
for more light. After some time the King said to his Groom, 'Give me my
perspective!' looked slowly all round for a good while, and then said,
'I see no Austrians!'--(ground all at our choice, then; we know where
to choose!) The King then asked me if I knew the road to"--in fact,
to several places, which, in a Parish History of those parts, would be
abundantly interesting; but must be entirely omitted here.... "The
King called his Chamberlain; gave some sign, which meant 'Beer-money to
Kappel!'--and I got four eight-groschen pieces [three shillings odd; a
rich reward in those days]; and was bid tell my Master, 'That the King
thanked him for the good quarters, and assured him of his favor.'

"Riding back across country, Kappel, some four or five miles homeward,
came upon the 'whole Prussian Army,' struggling forward in their various
Columns. Two Generals,--one of them Krusemark, King's Adjutant [Colonel
Krusemark, not General, as Kappel thinks, who came to know him some
weeks after],--had him brought up: to whom he gave account of himself,
how he had been escorting the King, and where he had left his Majesty.
'Behind Strehlen, say you? Breslau road? Devil knows whither we shall
all have to go yet!' observed Krusemark, and left Kappel free." [Kuster,
_ Lebens-Rettungen,_ pp. 66-76.]

In those weeks, Colberg Siege, Pitt's Catastrophe and high things are
impending, or completed, elsewhere: but this is the one thing noticeable
hereabouts. In regard to Strehlen, and Friedrich's history there, what
we have to say turns all upon this Kappel and Warkotsch: and,--