306 _et seq._ _Journal du siege_, pp.

103 _et seq._ Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol.i, p.85.Le Comte de Vassal, _La bataille de Patay_, Orleans, 1890.] It is two o'clock in the afternoon.

Poton's and Gugem's horse chance to raise a stag, which darts out of a thicket and plunges down into the hollow of La Retreve.

Suddenly a clamour of voices ascends from the hollow.

It proceeds from the English soldiers loudly disputing over the game which has fallen into their hands.