ere.
They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of their swords.
They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water.
It was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught.
This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself.
After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow glory.
The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and it was turned into a sepulchre.
Three hundred dead bodies were cast into it.
With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead?
Legend says they were not.
It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble voices were heard calling from the well.
This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard.
Three walls, part stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is open.
It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell.
This little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain.
The iron supports of the well on the right form a cross.