six heads, but much
altered and garbled.

In the first place, he admonished her of not having given a full
account of her apparitions to the Church through her judges; secondly,
he told her of her culpability in insisting on retaining her male
attire; thirdly, of her wickedness in asserting that she committed no
crime in retaining that dress; fourthly, her sin in holding as true
revelations that could only lead the people into error; fifthly, that
she had, owing to these revelations, done deeds displeasing to the
Divine will; and lastly, that she was committing a sin in treating the
apparitions as holy, when she was not certain whether they did not
come from evil spirits. When Chatillon said that by not conforming to
the article '_Sanctam Ecclesiam_,' she placed herself in the power of
the Church to condemn her to the flames, and to be burnt as a heretic,
she answered boldly:

'I will not say aught else than that I have already spoken; and were I
even to see the fire I should say the same!'

After this answer in the minutes of that day's trial is written by the
clerk in the margin of the vellum:

'_Superba responsio!_'

That was a testimony of admiration which neither the fears of
persecution nor of superstition could prevent from appearing.

Nothing more was to be obtained from the prisoner's lips than this
declaration, either by private or public examinations. This being so,
Cauchon bethought him what further cruelty could be employed to force
the prisoner to give way, and the barbarous scheme of torture was
decided on.

The only portion of the old castle of Rouen that has survived Time,
war, revolutions, and rebuilding (although partially restored), is a
massive high tower, built of white stone, called the Tower of Joan of
Arc. This is not the tower of the castle which contained the heroine's
dungeon, but it has always been traditionally regarded as that in
which, on the 9th of May, Joan of Arc was led to where her judges
intended, by fear or by the infliction of bodily torment, to oblige
her to make the confession which she had so steadily and for so long a
time refused. The lower portion of this tower only is ancient, for
from about its centre to the top is a restoration.

The chamber to which Joan of Arc was led, and where the instruments of
torture and the executioners were waiting, is probably that on the
ground floor, and is but little changed from what it was on that May
morning in the year of grac