He dared send no one else.

And Fritz found my horse, and feared the worst.

Then, as I have told, he found me, guided by the shout with which I had called on Rupert to stop and face me.

And I think a man has never been more glad to find his own brother alive than was Fritz to come on me; so that, in love and anxiety for me, he thought nothing of a thing so great as would have been the death of Rupert Hentzau.

Yet, had Fritz killed him, I should have grudged it.
The enterprise of the King's rescue being thus prosperously concluded, it lay on Colonel Sapt to secure secrecy as to the King ever having been in need of rescue.