The campaign lasted still four months, thanks to the energetic perseverance of Coligny and the inexhaustible spirits of Conde, both of whom excelled in the art of keeping up the courage of their men.

"Where are you taking us now ?" asked an ill-tempered officer one day.

"To meet our German allies," said Conde.

"And suppose we don't find them ?" "Then we will breathe on our fingers, for it is mighty cold." They did at last, at Pont-a-Mousson, meet the German re-enforcements, which were being brought up by Prince John Casimir, son of the elector-palatine, and which made Conde's army strong enough for him to continue the war in earnest.

But these new comers declared that they would not march any farther unless they were paid the hundred thousand crowns due to them.