just missed his head but the man who threw it was not to blame for he was excited and a person who is excited never can throw straight the tumult was very great indeed for a while of arc tn the midst of it a of the cardinal even forgot the so far as to the august bishop of himself p shaking his fist in his face and shouting by god you are a traitor you lie responded the bishop hi a traitor i oh far from it he certainly was the last frenchman that any had a right to bring that charge against the earl of lost his temper too he was a soldier but when it came to the � when it came to delicate and and � he couldn t see any further through a than another so he burst out in his frank warrior fashion and swore that the king of england was being used and that of arc was going to be allowed to cheat the stake but they whispered comfort into his ear give yourself no uneasiness my lord we shall soon have her again perhaps the like tidings found their w ay all around for good news travels fast as well as bad at any rate the presently down and the huge apart and disappeared and thus we reached the noon of that fearful thursday we two youths were happy happier than any words can tell � for we were not in the secret any more than the rest s life was saved we knew that and that was enough france would of arc hear of this day s infamous work � and th why then her gallant sons would flock to her standard by thousands and thousands multitudes upon multitudes and their wrath would be like the wrath of the ocean when the storm winds sweep it and they would themselves against this doomed city and it like the tides of that ocean and of arc would march again t in six days � seven days � one short week � noble france grateful france indignant france would be thundering at these gates � let us count tiie hours let us count the minutes let us count the seconds o happy day o day of ecstasy how our hearts sang in our for we were young then yes we were very young do you think the exhausted prisoner was allowed to rest and sleep after she had spent the small remnant of her strength in dragging her tired body back to the no there was no rest for her with those on her track and some of his people followed her to her straightway they found her dazed and dull her mental and physical forces in a state of they told her she had that she had made certain promises � among them to resume the apparel of her sex and that if she the church would cast her out for good and all she heard the but they had no meaning to her she was like a person who of arc taken a and is dying for sleep dying for rest from dying to be let alone and who mechanically does everything the asks taking but dull note of the things done and but them in the memory and so put on the go vn which and his people had brought and would come to herself by and by and have at first but a dim idea as to when and how the change had come about went away happy and content had resumed woman s dress without protest also she had been formally warned against he had witnesses to these facts how could matters be better but suppose she should not why then she must be forced to do it did hint to the english guards that if they chose to make their prisoner s and than ever no official notice would be taken of it perhaps so since the guards did begin that policy at once and no official notice was taken of it yes from that moment s life in that was made almost do not ask me to upon it i will not do it chapter r rid ay and saturday were happy days for and me our minds were full of our splendid dream of france aroused � france shaking her mane � france on the march � france at the gates � in ashes and free our imagination was on fire we were with pride and joy for we were very young as i have said we knew nothing about what had been happening in the the afternoon we supposed that as had and been taken back into the bosom of the church she was being gently used now and her made as pleasant and comfortable for her as the circumstances would allow so in high contentment we planned out our share in the great rescue and fought our part of the fight over and over again during those two happy days � as happy days as ever i have known sunday morning came i was awake enjoying the lazy weather and thinking thinking of the rescue � what else i had no other thought now i was absorbed in that drunk with the happiness of it of arc s i i i heard a voice shouting far down the street and soon it came nearer and i caught the words of arc has the witch s time has come it stopped my heart it turned my blood to ice that was more than sixty years ago but that triumphant note rings as clear in my memory to day as it rang in my ear that long vanished summer morning we are so strangely made the memories that could make us happy pass away it is the memories that break our hearts that abide soon other voices took up that cry � scores hundreds of 