"Send me to Orleans, with as small a band as you will.

But send me there, and you shall see signs and to spare that I come in the power of the King of Heaven." And so in the end her faith and courage triumphed.

The verdict ran somewhat thus: "We have found in her nothing but what is good.

To deny or hinder her intentions to serve the King would be to show ourselves unworthy of the assistance of God." Yes, they had to come to it; and I trust that there were many sitting there whose hearts smote them for ever having doubted, or sought to baffle or entrap her.

I cannot tell how far the judges were moved by the growing feeling in the town and throughout the district.