r her home, that he in his heart of hearts
belonged to the French side, that he was a prisoner on account of his
known devotion to Charles and to France, and many other such lies. This
Judas--half in the character of a layman, half in that of a confessor,
and wholly as a sympathetic friend and a fellow-sufferer--paid the
prisoner long visits, disguised both as priest and layman, as the part
suited the day's action best. Loiseleur actually used the means of
extracting information from Joan of Arc under the seal of confession,
to be afterwards employed against her by Cauchon. While these
conversations and confessions took place, Warwick and Cauchon would be
concealed in a part of the dungeon from which they could overhear what
passed between the two--one of whom worthily might be called an angel,
the other truthfully a devil. With the Bishop and knight--whose conduct
as regards Joan of Arc deeply tarnished an otherwise high
character--were seated clerks, who wrote down what passed in these
meetings. The clerks, to their credit, are said to have at first
refused to comply with doing such dirty work.

Cauchon gained but little by this infamy. Nothing of any importance
could be constructed out of the prisoner's confidence and confessions;
but Cauchon was, through Loiseleur, enabled to tender such advice to
Joan as made her answers coincide more closely with his wishes than
they otherwise could have done; especially those relating to the
Church Triumphant and Militant.

When his crime had borne fruit, Loiseleur, like another Judas, was
overwhelmed with an intolerable remorse; and, although he obtained his
victim's pardon, his end appears to have been as sudden as that of
Judas, if not also self-inflicted. By a lawyer named John Lohier, whom
he consulted during the course of the trial, Cauchon was not so well
served as he had been by Loiseleur. This Lohier, who was a Norman and
seems to have been a worthy man, had the courage to tell Cauchon that
inasmuch as Joan of Arc was being tried in secret and without benefit
of counsel, the proceedings were null and worthless. Like all who
showed any interest for the prisoner, Lohier was threatened by Cauchon
with imprisonment, but he escaped and found refuge in Rome.

On Passion Sunday, the 18th of March, Cauchon held a meeting of a
dozen of the lawyers, including the Vice-Inquisitor, and asked them to
give their opinion on some of the answers of Joan of Arc. He held a
second and si