Thekla will be in the bottom covered with straw.

We shall travel all night.
"Tomorrow, when your attendant discovers that your daughter has escaped, she will at once take the news to the governor.

The sentries will all be questioned, and it will be found that, whereas but one clockmaker came in two went out.

The city will be searched and the country round scoured but if the horsemen overtake me they will be looking for a craftsman and his apprentice, and will not suspect a solitary peasant with a wagon.
"The first danger over I must be guided by circumstances; but in any case Thekla must travel as a boy to the end of the journey, for in such troubled times as these it were unsafe indeed for a young girl to travel through Germany except under a strong escort of men-at-arms.

I design to make my way to Nuremberg, and shall then place her in the hands of my good friend Jans Boerhoff, whose wife and daughters will, I am sure, gladly receive and care for her until the time, which I hope is not far off, that peace be made and you can again rejoin her." "The plan is a good one," the count said when Malcolm had concluded, "and offers every prospect of success.