Into this chamber, when they had eaten, the landlord brought a party of eight or nine men to take their supper.

After supper the men smoked, and some of them did not even refrain from showing their ill-breeding in a more disagreeable way.

William Seebohm overheard the landlord and the gendarme say to each other, "These people are travelling this way to visit the Separatists, and strengthen them in their religious opinions; but we will disappoint them." The next morning they were favored with a short season of solemn communion, in which they were given to believe that the Name of the Lord would be their strong tower.

Their liberation, in fact, was near; for their envious jailor, finding probably no excuse for longer detaining them, suffered them to depart, but sent the gendarme to guard them as far as Berlenburg.

The man proved to be an excellent guide, and being eager to bring them to the magistrate of that town, where they could be more effectually checked in their schismatical object, he was very useful in shouldering the carriage when they came to a stand in the miserable roads.
The town of Berlenburg presented a dismal spectacle, the greater part having recently been burnt down; so that they had some difficulty in making their way through the ruins.