"It was that night," said he to himself, "when the Prince sat by the Countess with the list of my friends in his hands.

The names were all erased but three, and against those three was that other name of Schlestadt.

No doubt the Countess while she bent over her harp-strings took a look at that list.

I must run the gauntlet into Schlestadt." Towards evening he came to Stuttgart and rode through the Schloss Platz and along the Koenigstrasse.

Wogan would not sleep there, since there the Duke of Wuertemberg held his court, and in that court the Countess of Berg was very likely to have friends.