surgeon, to have it properly dressed, and at night returned.

He now remarked, that it was humanly impossible I should escape,
unless the officer on guard should desert with me;--that he wished
nothing more ardently than to sacrifice his life in my behalf, but
that he could not resolve so far to forget his honour and duty to
desert, himself, while on guard: he notwithstanding gave me his
word of honour he would find me such a person in a few days; and
that, in the meantime, he would prepare everything for my flight.

He returned the same evening, bringing with him Lieutenant Schell,
and as he entered said, "Here is your man." Schell embraced me,
gave his word of honour, and thus was the affair settled, and as it
proved, my liberty ascertained.

We soon began to deliberate on the means necessary to obtain our
purpose. Schell was just come from garrison at Habelchwert to the
citadel of Glatz, and in two days was to mount guard over me, till
when our attempt was suspended. I have before said, I received no
more supplies from my beloved mistress, and my purse at that time
only contained some six pistoles. It was therefore resolved that
Bach should go to Schweidnitz, and obtain money of a sure friend of
mine in that city.

Here must I inform the reader that at this period the officers and I
all understood each other, Captain Roder alone excepted, who was
exact, rigid, and gave trouble on all occasions.

Major Quaadt was my kinsman, by my mother's side, a good, friendly
man, and ardently desirous I should escape, seeing my calamities