No, the bridge has not yet been taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been given to blow it up.

Otherwise we should long ago have been in the mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad quarter of an hour between two fires.

" "But still this does not mean that the campaign is over," said Prince Andrew.

"Well, I think it is.

The bigwigs here think so too, but they daren't say so.