ABSTRACT
A DESPERATE siege was laid to St. Cloud by de Tournon and his brigands, the first object being to discover the exact position and place of Vansittart’s bed. One day an old woman was found skulking in a lonely part of the upper floor. She was bent double with apparent age, and when asked to account for her presence in the house seemed daft. It was thought that she had merely strayed inside in her aimless wanderings, till she was brought before Vansittart, who said: “Take that wig off his head.”
