Crossing to the other side of the street, and keeping well in the darkness, they quickly made their way towards the coach, and reached a position whence, by the light of the inn lamp, they could see into it without being seen. Each turned to the other in silence, astonishment and conviction in their eyes. The occupants of the coach were two: Mr. Berkeley and Monsieur de Polignac. It was to the latter that the man at the door was speaking. They were clearly at the end of their conversation; the man touched his cap and withdrew, and as the coach drove off, a look of gratification shone in the faces of its two occupants. "What do you make of that, Sherry?" "Make on’t! ’tis plain as a pikestaff. Dead men tells no tales; that’s what I make on’t, sir. Rafe Aglionby knows a mort too much for they two high-liven villains; that’s where ’t is: they got un out o’ jail to stop his tongue at scaffold foot, and then pitched un in the river to cool it for ever. ’Tis a mortal pity we let un go, sir, for’t seems to me we ought to know what he knows, and get to the bottom o’ the squire’s desperate work agen you. But you always was a tender-hearted Christian, like your feyther afore ’ee." "I couldn’t let murder be done before my very eyes, Sherry." "Ah, you’ll have to see wuss now you be a man o’ war, sir. Well, ’tis heapen coals of fire on his yead, as the Book says, and mebbe Them above’ll reward ’ee for’t; ay, so." *CHAPTER XIX* *Marlborough’s March to the Danube* A Foreigner at the Hall—War Again—Good-bye!—Comparisons—Up the Rhine—A Bold Stroke—Marlborough’s Way—Despatches—A Mission to Eugene—Fanshawe Missing—The Road to Innsprück—Zum Grauen Bären—Mein Wirth—Breakfast at Three—The Second-best Room—A Trap-Door—Midnight Visitors—A Hasty Toilet—A Sound on the Stairs—Through the Copse—Stampede—The Lieutenant of the Guard—At Obermiemingen—The Little Abbé—Max Berens—A Surprise Visit—Mein Wirth Explains—Injured Innocence—In the Net—Hobson’s Choice—The Missing Messengers—In Terrorem