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ncy?”
“Leave Beaugency to me, gentle duke; I will have it in two hours, and at no cost of blood.”
“It is true, Excellency. You will but need to deliver this news there and receive the surrender.”
“Yes. And I will be with you at Meung with the dawn, fetching the Constable and his fifteen hundred; and when Talbot knows that Beaugency has fallen it will have an effect upon him.”
“By the mass, yes!” cried La Hire. “He will join his Meung garrison to his army and
