modesty s sake moreover she saw that she could not save her life if she must fight for it against like this so she put on the forbidden garments knowing what the end would be she was weary of the struggle poor thing we had followed in the wake of the vice and the others � six or eight � and when i saw sitting there forlorn and still in chains when i was expecting to find her situation so different i did not know what to make of it the shock was very great i had doubted the perhaps possibly i had believed in it but had not realized it s victory was complete he had had a harassed and irritated and disgusted look for a long time but that was all gone now and contentment and serenity had taken its place his purple face was full of tranquil and happiness he went trailing his robes and stood in front of with his legs apart and remained so more than a minute over her and enjoying the sight of this poor ruined creature who had won so lofty a place for him in the service of the meek and of the world lord of the universe � in case england kept her promise to him who kept no promises himself presently the judges began to question one of them named who was a man with more insight than prudence remarked upon s change of clothing and said there is something suspicious about this how mark twain could it have come about without on the part of others perhaps even something worse thousand devils screamed in a fury will you shut mouth traitor shouted the soldiers on guard and made a rush for with their it was with the greatest difficulty that he was saved from being nm through the body he made no more attempts to help the inquiry poor man the other judges proceeded with the why have you resumed this male habit i did not quite catch her answer for just then a soldier s slipped from his fingers and fell on the stone floor with a crash but i thought i to say that she had resumed it of her own motion but you have promised and sworn that you would not go back to it i was full of anxiety to hear her answer to that question and when it came it was just what i was expecting she said � quite quietly i have never intended and never understood myself to swear i would not resume it there � i had been sure all along that she did not know what she was doing and saying on the platform and this answer of hers was proof that i had not been mistaken then she went on to add this but i had a right to resume it because the promises made to me have not been kept � promises that i should be allowed to go to mass and receive recollections of f arc the communion and that i should be freed from the bondage of these chains � but they are still upon me as you see nevertheless you have and have especially promised to return no more to the dress of a man then held out her hands sorrowfully toward these men and said i would rather die than continue so but if they may be taken off and if i may hear mass and be removed to a prison and have a woman about me i will be good and will do what shall seem good to you that i do at that honor the compact which he and his had made with her fulfil its conditions what need of that conditions had been a good thing to temporarily and for advantage but they had served their turn � let something of a sort and of more consequence be considered the of the male dress was sufficient for all practical purposes but perhaps could be led to add something to that fatal crime so asked her if her voices had spoken to her since thursday � and he her of her yes she answered and then it came out that the voices had talked with her about the � told her about it i suppose she the heavenly origin of her mission and did it with the mien of one who was not conscious that she had ever it so i was convinced once more that she bad had no mark twain notion of what she was doing that thursday morning on the platform finally she said my voices told me i did very wrong to confess that what i had done was not well then she sighed and said with simplicity but it was the fear of the fire that made me do so that is fear of the fire had made her sign a paper whose contents she had not understood then but understood now by revelation of her voices and by testimony of her she was sane now and not exhausted her courage had come back and with it her loyalty to the truth she was bravely and serenely speaking it again knowing that it would deliver her body up to that very fire which had such terrors for her that answer of hers was quite long quite frank wholly free from or it made me shudder i knew she was sentence of death upon herself so did poor and he wrote in the margin abreast of it fatal answer yes all present knew that it was indeed a fatal answer then there fell a silence such as falls in a sick room when the by the dying draw a deep breath and say softly one to another all is over here likewise all was over but after some wishing to this matter and make it final put this question do you still believe that voices are st 