But what make we next ?" "I have but one thought," I said: "to pluck the Maid out of the hands of the English, for now men say that she is sold to them by Jean of Luxembourg.

They mean to take her to Arras, and so by Crotoy at the mouth of Seine, and across Normandy to Rouen.

Save her France must, for the honour of France." "My mind is the same," he said, and fell into a muse.

"Hence the straight road, and the shortest," he said at last, "is by Beauvais on to Rouen, where she will lie in chains," and drawing his dagger he scratched lines on the bridge parapet with its point.

"Here is Compiegne; there, far to the west, is the sea, and here is Rouen.