into the midst of them, slightly wounded the Count
and his head Jager, but dangerously one of the guests, who had sustained
a single combat with her and killed her; not, however, without grievous
injury to himself, for a large blood-vessel had been severed; all the
efforts to stanch which had been but half successful.

"Have you your tourniquet, doctor?" cried the youth from a wagon, as the
equipage was turned again to the gate.

"Everything--everything."

"You 'll want any quantity of lint and bandages; and, remember, nothing
can be had down yonder."

"Make your mind easy! I've forgotten nothing. Just keep your beasts
quiet till I get up."

I drew nigh as he was about to mount, and whispered a word in his ear.

"I don't know," said he, gruffly. "I can't see why you should ask."

"Why don't you get up?" cried the youth, impatiently.

"There's a young fellow here importuning me to ask you for a place in
the wagon. He thinks he knows this stranger."

"Let him get in at once, then; and let's have no more delays." And
scarcely had we scrambled to our places, than the loud whip resounded
with the quick, sharp report of pistol-shots, and the beasts sprung out
at once, rushed through the narrow gateway, and were soon stretching
along at their topmost pace through impenetrable blackness.

Crouching in the straw at the bottom of the wagon, I crept as closely as
I could to where the doctor was seated beside the young man who drove.
I was eager to hear what I could of the incident that had befallen; but,
to my great disappointment, they spoke in Hungarian, and all I could
gather, from certain dropping expressions, was that both the Count and
his English friend had been engaged in some rivalry of personal daring,
and that the calamity had come of this insane contest. "They'll never
say 'Mad as a Hunyadi' any longer up at Lees. They 'll say 'Mad as an
Englishman.'"

The young fellow spoke in wondrous admiration of the wounded man's
courage and coolness, and described how he had taught them to pass a
light ligature round his thigh, and tighten it further by inserting a
stick to act as a screw. "Up to that," said he, "he had been bleeding
like a tapped Wein-kass; and then he made them give him large goblet" of
strong Bordeaux, to sustain him."

"He's a bold-hearted fellow then?" said the doctor.

"The Count declares he has never met his equal. They were alone together
when I started, for the Englishman said he had somet