If they so much as suspected the Prince they would slay us every one." But ere we had time to flee half a dozen of their scouts came near us, and, observing our horses and excellent accoutrement, they raised a cry.
There was nothing for it but the spurs on the heels of our boots.

So across the smooth, well-turfed country we had it, and in spite of our beasts' weariness we made good running.

And while we fled I considered how best to serve the Prince.
"There is a monastery near by," said I, "and the head thereof is a good friend of ours.

Let us, if possible, gain that shelter, and cast ourselves on the kindness of the good Abbot Tobias." "Aye," said the Prince, urging his horse to speed, "but will we ever get there ?" Then I called myself all the stupid-heads in the world, because I had not refused to go a foot with the Prince on such a mad venture, and so put our future and that of the Princedom of Plassenburg in such peril.
But there at last were the gray walls and high towers of the Abbey of Wolgast.

Our pursuers were not yet in sight, so we rode in at the gate and cast our bridles to a lay brother of the order, crying imperiously for instant audience of the Abbot.
As soon as my friend Tobias saw us he threw up his hands in a rapture of welcome.