Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet.
De la Foret straightway raised him in his arms.

He called to his wife, but, bidding her not come near, he bore the doomed man away to the lonely Ecrehos Rocks lying within sight of their own doorway.

Suffering no one to accompany him, he carried the sick man to the boat which had brought the Queen's messenger to Rozel Bay.

The sailors of the vessel fled, and alone De la Foret set sail for the Ecrehos.
There upon the black rocks the young man died, and Michel buried him in the shore-bed of the Maitre Ile.

Then, after two days--for he could bear suspense no longer--he set sail for Jersey.