CHAPTER X.HOW THE MAID LED US INTO BATTLE.
"It was well indeed that you sent me forth on that mission, my Chieftainess," spoke Dunois, as we sat at the long table in the Treasurer's house, refreshing ourselves after the fatigues of the march to and from the city, and the anxiety of awaiting an attack, which had not come.

He bowed towards the Maid in speaking, calling her by a playful title in vogue amongst the officers and Generals who were her friends.

"Though what prompted you to that act of sagacity is more than I know.

I had no misgivings that there would be trouble with the army." "My voices warned me," answered the Maid gently.

"It was not much; yet a little leaven often leavens the whole lump.