The next morning when he arose he found this valet sleeping in his antechamber.

The nobleman waxed wroth, but the courier gave him a response to the letter.

He had traveled 70 miles during the night.

It is said that one of the noblemen under Charles II in preparing for a great dinner perceived that one of the indispensable pieces of his service was missing.

His courier was dispatched in great haste to another house in his domain, 15 miles distant, and returned in two hours with the necessary article, having traversed a distance of over 30 miles.