This being all the magistrates wanted to know, they went home, while their envoys went upstairs and told their story, which produced the effect which might be expected.

Thereupon a Carmelite brother wishing to weaken the impression, and thinking that the devil might be more lucky in his, second guess than the first, asked the superior where Grandier was just then.

She answered without the slightest hesitation that he was walking with the bailiff in the church of Sainte-Croix.

A new deputation was at once sent off, which finding the church empty, went on to the palace, and saw the bailiff presiding at a court.

He had gone direct from the convent to the palace, and had not yet seen Grandier.