JOAN DARC (shivers at the painful recollection)--"I came from Crespy, in Valois." BISHOP CAUCHON--"Did your voices order the sally at which you were taken?" JOAN DARC--"During the last week of the Easter holidays my voices often warned me that I was soon to be betrayed and delivered--but that it was so decreed--not to be surprised, and to accept everything meekly, and that God would come to my aid." A JUDGE--"Thus your voices, the voices of your saints, told you you would be captured?" JOAN DARC (sighing)--"Yes, they told me so a long time. I requested my saints to let me die the moment I was taken so as not to prolong my sufferings--" THE INQUISITOR--"Did your voices tell you exactly the day on which you would be captured?" JOAN DARC--"No, not exactly; they only announced to me that I was soon to be betrayed and delivered. I said so to the good people of Compiegne on the day of the sally." A JUDGE--"If your voices had ordered you to deliver battle before Compiegne while warning you that you would be taken prisoner on that day, would you still have obeyed them?" JOAN DARC--"I would have obeyed with regrets; but I would have obeyed, whatever was to happen." A JUDGE--"Did you cross the bridge in order to make the sally from Compiegne?" JOAN DARC (more and more cruelly affected by these remembrances)--"Does that belong to the process?" BISHOP CAUCHON--"Answer." JOAN DARC (rapidly in short sentences)--"I crossed the bridge. I attacked with my company the Burgundians of the Sire of Luxembourg. I threw them back twice as far as their own trenches, the third time only half way. The English then came up. They cut off my retreat. Several of my soldiers wished to force me back into Compiegne. But the bridge had been raised. We were betrayed. I was captured." (She shudders.) BISHOP CAUCHON--"Joan, your interrogatory is closed for to-day. Pray to the Lord that He may enlighten your soul and guide you to the path of eternal salvation. May God help you, and come to your assistance." (He makes the sign of the cross.) ALL THE OTHER PRIESTS (rising)--"Amen." BISHOP CAUCHON--"Conduct Joan the Maid back to her prison." The two beadles approach Joan. Each takes her by an arm; they lead her out of the chapel and deliver her to a platoon of English soldiers, who conduct her back to her dungeon. CHAPTER IV. THE TEMPTATION.