notwithstanding the danger we ran.

They lay at the inn, saluted us, but with indifference, not seeming
to notice us, and spoke little. We had not been long in bed, before
our host came to awaken us, and told us with surprise, these
pretended merchants were sent to arrest us from Prussia; that they
had offered, first, fifty, afterwards, a hundred ducats, if he would
permit them to take us in his house, and carry us into Silesia:
that he had firmly rejected the proposal, though they had increased
their promises: and that at last they had given him six ducats to
engage his silence.

We clearly saw these were an officer and under-officers sent by
General Fouquet, to recover us. We conjectured by what means they
had discovered our route, and imagined the information they had
received could only come from one Lieutenant Molinie, of the
garrison of Habelschwert, who had come to visit Schell, as a friend,
during our stay at Braunau. He had remained with us two days, and
had asked many questions concerning the road we should take, and he
was the only one who knew it. He was probably the spy of Fouquet,
and the cause of what happened afterwards, which, however, ended in
the defeat of our enemies.

The moment I heard of this infamous treachery, I was for entering
with my pistols primed, into the enemy's chamber, but was prevented
by Schell and Lazar: the latter entreated me, in the strongest
manner, to remain at his house till I should receive a supply from
my mother, that I might be enabled to continue my journey with more
ease and less danger: but his entreaties were ineffectual; I was
determined to see her, uncertain as I was of what effect my letter