protector, or friend, and only twenty years of age.

In the campaign of 1744 I had been quartered at Braunau with a
weaver, whom I advised and assisted to bury his effects, and
preserve them from being plundered. The worthy man received us with
joy and gratitude. I had lived in this same house but two years
before as absolute master of him and his fate. I had then nine
horses and five servants, with the highest and most favourable hopes
of futurity; but now I came a fugitive, seeking protection, and
having lost all a youth like me had to lose.

I had but a single louis-d'or in my purse, and Schell forty
kreutzers, or some three shillings; with this small sum, in a
strange country, we had to cure his sprain, and provide for all our
wants.

I was determined not to go to my cousin Trenck at Vienna, fearful
this should seem a justification of all my imputed treasons; I
rather wished to embark for the East Indies, than to have recourse
to this expedient. The greater my delicacy was the greater became
my distress. I wrote to my mistress at Berlin, but received no
answer; possibly because I could not indicate any certain mode of
conveyance. My mother believed me guilty, and abandoned me; my
brothers were still minors, and my friend at Schweidnitz could not
aid me, being gone to Konigsberg.

After three weeks' abode at Braunau, my friend recovered of his
lameness. We had been obliged to sell my watch, with his scarf and
gorget, to supply our necessities, and had only four florins
remaining.