"I have got what we want," answered Benedict. Then in an undertone he said to Lenhart, "Go on twenty paces, then stop." He told Helen what had happened, and that if she wished to see her brother-in-law it would be easy to go back. Helen chafed at the very idea of seeing her brother-in-law. He would be sure to keep her from going among the dead and wounded, and the thieves who were on the battlefield to rob the dead. She thanked Benedict, and cried to Lenhart: "Drive on, please!" Lenhart whipped up his horses. They got back to Dettingen. Eleven o'clock struck as they entered the town. An immense fire was burning in the principal square. Benedict got down and went towards it. He went up to a captain who was walking up and down. "Excuse me, captain," he said, "but do you know Baron Frederic von Bülow?" The captain looked him up and down. It must be remembered that Benedict was still in his boatman's dress. "Yes," he answered, "I know him, and what then?" "Will you do him a great service?" "Willingly; he is my friend; but how came he to make you his messenger?" "He is at Horstein, and obliged to stay there by order of General Sturm." "He is very uneasy about a friend of his, who was killed or wounded on the field. He sent me and a comrade to search for this friend, the _fiancé_ of the lady whom you see in the carriage, and said: 'Take this note to the first Prussian officer you see. Tell him to read it, and I am sure he will have the kindness to give you what you ask for.'" The officer went to the fire, and read what follows: "Order to the first Prussian officer whom my messenger meets, to put at the disposal of the bearer two soldiers and a surgeon. The two soldiers and the surgeon will follow the bearer wherever he leads them. "From the quarters of General Horstein, eleven at night: "By order, General Sturm. "Principal staff officer, "BARON FREDERIC VON BÜLOW." Discipline and obedience are the two chief virtues of the Prussian army. These are what have made it the first army in Germany. The captain had hardly read his superior's order when he dropped the haughty look which he had assumed for the poor devil of a boatman. "Hullo," he called to the soldiers round the fire. "Two volunteers to serve the principal staff officer, Frederic von Bülow." Six men presented themselves. "That's good, you and you," said the captain, choosing two men. "Now who is the regiment's surgeon?" "Herr Ludwig Wiederschall," answered a voice. "Where is he billeted?" "Here in the square," answered the same voice. "Tell him he is to go on an expedition to Aschaffenburg to-night, by order of the staff officer." A soldier got up, went across the square and knocked at the door; a moment after he came back with the surgeon-major. Benedict thanked the captain. He answered that he was very happy to do anything for the Baron von Bülow.