d me to answer boldly.'

'Tell us more clearly what it said to you.'

'I asked its advice in what I should answer, and bade it ask the
Saviour for counsel. And the voice said, "Answer boldly; God will help
you."'

'Had it said anything to you before you interrupted it?'

'Some words it had said which I did not clearly comprehend; but when
fully awake I understood it to tell me to answer boldly.' Then,
emboldened as it seemed by the recollection of that voice, she turned
to Cauchon and exclaimed, 'You, Bishop, you tell me that you are my
judge--have a care how you act, for in truth I am sent by God, and
your position is one of great peril.'

Then Beaupere broke in again, and asked Joan of Arc if the voice had
ever altered its advice, and whether it had told Joan not to answer
all the questions that would be put to her.

'I cannot answer you about that,' said Joan. 'I have revelations of
matters concerning the King which I shall not reveal.'

The Maid then asked whether she might wait for fifteen days, in order
that, by that time, she might know whether she might, or might not,
answer questions relating to this point.

The priest then asked whether she knew that the voice came from God.

'Yes,' she answered, 'and by this order--that,' she continued, 'I
believe as firmly as I believe the Christian religion, and that God
has saved us from the pains of hell.'

She was then asked if the voice was that of a male or of a female.

'It is a voice sent by God,' she only deigned to say to this.

Joan again asked for an interval of fifteen days, in order that she
might better be able in that time to know how much she might reveal to
her judges relating to her voices.

On being asked whether she believed the Almighty would be displeased
at her telling the whole truth, she said that she had been ordered by
the voices to reveal certain things to the King, and not to her
judges; that her voices had told her that very night many things for
the good of the King which he alone was to know.

But, asked Beaupere, could she not prevail on the voices to visit the
King?

'I know not if the voices would consent,' she answered.

'But why,' then asked Beaupere, 'does the voice not speak to the King
now, as it did formerly, when you were with him?'

'I know not if it be the wish of God,' Joan answered: 'without the
grace of God I should be able to do nothing.'

This remark, most innocent to our comprehension, was afterwards ma