But even while he spoke another flight of arrows, even more deadly than the last, was poured forth.

One of the knights standing by the side of Sir Rudolph fell, shot through the brain.

Very many of the common men, undefended by harness, fell shot through and through; and an arrow piercing the joint of the armor of Sir Rudolph wounded him in the shoulder.

In vain the knight stormed and raged and ordered his men to advance.

The suddenness of the attack seemed to his superstitious followers a direct answer from heaven to the words of the abbess.