ho painted your banner?'

This Joan would not say.

'Who bore your flag?' asked the priest.

Joan of Arc said she carried it herself when charging the enemy, 'in
order,' she added, 'to avoid killing any one. I never killed any one,'
she said.

'How many soldiers did the King give you,' asked the priest, 'when he
gave you a command?'

'Between ten and twelve thousand men,' answered Joan.

Then Beaupere questioned her regarding the relief of Orleans, and he
was told by the Maid that she first went to the redoubt of Saint Loup
by the bridge.

'Did you expect,' was the next question, 'that you would be able to
raise the siege?'

'Yes,' she was certain, Joan answered, from a revelation which she had
received, and of which she had told the King before making the
expedition.

'At the time of the assault,' asked Beaupere, 'did you not tell your
soldiers that you alone would receive all the arrows, bolts, and
stones discharged by the cannon and culverins?'

'No,' she answered, 'there were over a hundred wounded; but,' she
added, 'I said to my people, "Be assured that you will raise the
siege."'

'Were you wounded?' asked the priest.

'I was wounded,' Joan answered, 'at the assault of the fortress on the
bridge. I was struck and wounded by an arrow or a dart; but I
received much comfort from Saint Catherine, and I recovered in less
than fifteen days. I recovered, and in spite of the wound I did not
give up riding or working.'

'Did you know beforehand that you would be wounded?' asked Beaupere.

'Yes,' was the answer; 'and I had told my King I should be wounded. My
saints had told me of it.'

'In what manner were you wounded?' he asked.

'I was,' she answered, 'the first to raise a ladder against the
fortress at the bridge. While raising the ladder I was struck by the
bolt.'

'Why,' now asked the priest, 'did you not come to terms with the
English captains at Jargeau?'

'The knights about me,' she answered, 'told the English that they
could not have a truce of fifteen days, which they wanted; but that
they and their horses must leave the place at once.'

'And what did you say?'

'I told them that if they left the place with their side arms
(_petites cottes_) their lives would be spared. If not, that Jargeau
would be stormed.'

'Had you then consulted your voices to know whether you should accord
them that delay or not?'

Joan did not remember.

Here closed the fourth day's trial.

The fifth day