el like? Was he clothed?'

'Do you think,' was the answer to this question, which could only have
occurred to a foul-minded priest, 'do you think that God cannot clothe
him?'

Other absurd questions followed--as to his hair; long or short? Had he
a pair of scales with him? As before, Joan of Arc answered these
futile, and sometimes indecent, questions with her wonderful patience.
At one moment she could not help exclaiming how supremely happy the
sight of her saints made her; it seemed as if a sudden vision of her
beloved saints had been vouchsafed her in the midst of that crowd of
persecuting priests.

She was again told to tell what the sign or secret was which she had
revealed to the King on first seeing him at Chinon; but about this she
was firm as adamant, and refused to give any information. To reveal
that sign or secret would, she felt, be not only a breach of
confidence and disloyalty between her and her King, but a crime to
divulge a sacred secret, which Charles kept sealed in his breast, and
which she was determined to utter to no one, and least of all to his
enemies.

'I have already said,' she told her judges, 'that you will have
nothing from me about that. Go and ask the King!'

Then followed questions as to the fashion of the crown that the King
had worn at Rheims: which brought the fifth day of the trial to a
close.

The sixth and last day's public examination took place on the 3rd of
March, forty-two judges present. The long series of questions were
nearly all relating to the appearance of the saints. Both questions
and answers were nearly the same as on the previous occasions, and
little more information was got from the prisoner.

After these, the subject of her dress--what she then wore, and what
she had worn--was entered upon.

'When you came to the King,' she was asked, 'did he not inquire if
your change in dress was owing to a revelation or not?'

'I have already answered,' said Joan, 'that I do not remember if he
asked me. This evidence was made known when I was at Poitiers.'

'And the doctors who examined you,' asked Beaupere, 'at Poitiers, did
they not want to know regarding your being dressed in man's clothes?'

'I don't remember,' she answered; 'but they asked me when I had first
begun to wear man's dress, and I told them that it was when I was at
Vaucouleurs.'

She was then asked whether the Queen had not asked her to leave off
wearing male clothes. She answered that that had