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"Really I don't care about that, I don't care at all," said

Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the

battle before Krems was really of small importance in view of

such events as the fall of Austria's capital. "How is it Vienna

was taken? What of the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and

Prince Auersperg? We heard reports that Prince Auersperg was

defending Vienna?" he said.

"Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is

defending us-doing it very badly, I think, but still he is

defending us. But Vienna is on the other side. 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.