At the risk of being seen--and what do I now care if I am seen ?--I creep over the rocks.

I will be there to sustain Thomas Roch and prevent him from weakening.

If I pay for it with my life I will once more adjure him in the name of his country.

I will cry to him: "Frenchman, it is the tricolor that flies on yonder ship! Frenchman, it is a very part of France that is approaching you! Frenchman, would you be so criminal as to strike it ?" But my intervention will not be necessary.

Thomas Roch is not a prey to one of the fits to which he was formerly subject.