Meanwhile, Cimourdain who had not yet taken his position on the plateau, and who stood beside Gauvain, approached a trumpeter.
"Sound the trumpet!" he said to him.
The clarion sounded, the horn replied.
Again the clarion and the trumpet exchanged calls.
"What does that mean?" asked Gauvain of Guéchamp. "What does Cimourdain want?"
Cimourdain, with a white handkerchief in his hand, approached the tower; and as he drew near, he cried aloud,—
"You men in the tower, do you know me?"
And the voice of the Imânus made answer from the heights,—