not in this place interrupt my story. We determined everything
should be prepared against the first time Schell mounted guard, and
that our project should be executed on our next. Thus, as he
mounted guard every four days, the eighth was to be that of our
flight.

The governor meantime had been informed how familiar I was become
with the officers, at which taking offence, he sent orders that my
door should no more be opened, but that I should receive my food
through a small window that had been made for the purpose. The care
of the prison was committed to the major, and he was forbidden to
eat with me, under pain of being broken.

His precautions were ineffectual; the officers procured a false key,
and remained with me half the day and night.

Captain Damnitz was imprisoned in an apartment by the side of mine.
This man had deserted from the Prussian service, with the money
belonging to his company, to Austria, where he obtained a commission
in his cousin's regiment, who having prevailed on him to serve as a
spy, during the campaign of 1744, he was taken in the Prussian
territories, known, and condemned to be hanged.

Some Swedish volunteers, who were then in the army, interested
themselves in his behalf, and his sentence was changed to perpetual
imprisonment, with a sentence of infamy.

This wretch, who two years after, by the aid of his protectors, not
only obtained his liberty but a lieutenant-colonel's commission, was
the secret spy of the major over the prisoners; and he remarked