questions like this were profane x recollections op of arc and not worthy of serious notice she answered indifferently but the question brought to her mind another matter and she turned upon and said i had two rings they have been taken away from me during my you have one of them it is the gift of my brother give it back to me if not to me then i pray that it be given to the church the judges conceived the idea that maybe these rings were for the working of perhaps they could be made to do a damage where is the other ring the have it where did you get it my father and mother gave it to me describe it it is plain and simple and has and mary engraved upon it everybody could see that that was not a valuable to do devil s work with so that trail was not worth following still to make one of the judges asked if she had ever cured sick people by touching them with the ring she said no now as concerning the that were used to abide near by whereof there are many reports and traditions it is said that your surprised these creatures on a summer s night dancing under the tree called de is it not possible that your pretended saints and angels are but those j s mark twain is that in your she made no other answer have you not conversed with st and st under that tree i do not know or by the fountain near the tree yes sometimes what promises did they make you none but such as they had god s warrant for but what promises did they make that is not in your yet i will say this much they told me that the king become master of his kingdom in spite of his enemies and what else there was a pause then she said they promised to lead me to paradise if faces do really betray what is passing in men s minds a fear came upon many in that house at this time that maybe after all a chosen servant and herald of god was here being hunted to her death the interest deepened movements and ceased the stillness became almost painful have you noticed that almost from the beginning the nature of the questions asked showed that in some way or other the very often already knew his fact before he asked his question have you noticed that somehow or other the usually knew just how and where to search for s secrets that they really knew the bulk of her � a fact not suspected by her � and that they had no task before them but to trick her into exposing tho secrets x recollections op op arc do you remember the the treacherous priest tool of do j u remember that under the sacred seal of the freely and revealed to him everything concerning her history save only a few things regarding her supernatural revelations which her voices had forbidden her to tell to any one � and that the judge was a hidden listener all the time now you understand how the were able to devise that long army of questions questions whose and ingenuity and are astonishing until we come to remember s performance and recognize their source ah bishop of you are now this cruel these many years in hell f yes verily unless one has come to your help there is but one among the that would do it and it is futile to hope that that one has not already done it � of arc we will return to the court and the did they make you still another promise yes but that is not in your i will not tell it now but before three months will tell it you the judge seems to know the matter he is asking about already one gets this idea from his next question did your voices tell you that you would be before three months often showed a little flash of surprise at the good of the judges and she showed one this time i was frequently in tenor to find my mind mark twain which could not control the voices and saying they counsel her to speak boldly � a thing she would do without any suggestion from them or anybody else � but when it comes to telling her any useful thing such as how these manage to guess their way so into her affairs they are always off attending to some other business i am by nature and when such thoughts swept through my head they made me cold with fear and if there was a storm and at the time i was so ill that i could but with difficulty abide at my post and do my work answered that is not in your i do not know when i shall be set free but some who wish me out of this world will go from it before me it made some of them shiver have your voices told you that you will be delivered from this prison without a doubt they had and the judge knew it before he asked the question ask me again in three months and i will tell you she said it with such a happy look the tired prisoner and i and drooping yonder � why the floods of joy went streaming through us from crown to sole it was all that we could do to hold still and keep from making fatal exposure of our feelings she was to be set free in three months that was what she meant we saw it the voices had told her so and told her true � true to the very day � recollections of op arc may th but we know now that they had hidden from her how 