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Updated: June 8, 2025
"He cannot go far without being sighted, citoyen." "Ah?" "Captain Jutley sent forty men as reinforcements for the patrol duty: twenty went down to the beach. He again assured me that the watch had been constant all day, and that no stranger could possibly get to the beach, or reach a boat, without being sighted." "That's good. Do the men know their work?"
Now about tonight?" interrupted Chauvelin, impatiently. "The roads and the beach are patrolled as usual, citoyen, and Captain Jutley awaits further orders." "Go back to him at once, then. Tell him to send reinforcements to the various patrols; and especially to those along the beach you understand?"
"You, citoyen, in the meanwhile," he said to Desgas, "go back to Captain Jutley as fast as you can, and tell him to let you have another dozen men, and bring them with you along the St. Martin Road, where I daresay you will soon overtake the Jew's cart with myself in it. There will be hot work presently, if I mistake not, in the Pere Blanchard's hut.
"The English schooner?" he asked. "She was lost sight of at sundown, citoyen," replied Desgas, "but was then making west, towards Cap Gris Nez." "Ah! good! " muttered Chauvelin, "and now, about Captain Jutley? what did he say?" "He assured me that all the orders you sent him last week have been implicitly obeyed.
"As soon as any of the men have sighted a stranger, two of them are to keep him in view. The man who loses sight of the tall stranger, after he is once seen, will pay for his negligence with his life; but one man is to ride straight back here and report to me. Is that clear?" "Absolutely clear, citoyen." "Very well, then. Go and see Jutley at once.
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