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Wogan was taken by surprise

"I should never have slept at all," stammered he "I promised myself

that Not a wink of sleep betwixt Innspruck and Italy; and here was I

fast as a log this side of Trent I think our postillion sleeps too;"

and letting down thehe quietly called Misset

"We have fresh relays," said he, "and we travel at a snail's-pace"

"The relays are only fresh to us," returned Misset "We can go no

faster There is soes' start of us,--someone

of importance, it would seem, and who travels with a retinue, for he

takes all the horses at each stage"

Wogan thrust his head out of theThere was no doubt of it; the

horses lagged In this hurried flight the er, and this was no trifling hindrance For the hue and

cry was most certainly raised behind theun twelve hours since, on the ht hear the jingle of a horse's harness on the road

behind And now here was atheir way

in front