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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Better perhaps than you imagine, monsieur. The merchants of Havre and Cherbourg will thank you for this that I tell you now. Torode to the English, Main Rouge to the French he lives on Herm, the next isle to Sercq, where I myself live. He is the most successful privateer in all these waters. And why? I will tell you, monsieur.
Honest free-trading isn't in it compared with the privateering, though even that isn't what it was, they say. Like everything else, it is overdone, and many mouths make scant faring. And so you want to go out with Torode?" he asked musingly. "That is my idea.
Of course Helier Le Marchant might have told Jeanne Falla. But even then Jeanne Falla would only have on hearsay from Helier what he had heard from me, whereas I was an eye-witness, and could swear to the facts. And yet I could not but feel that if I had not got across to Herm when I did, I should not have got across at all, and Carette's welfare was more to me than the punishment of Torode.
He's behind one of them stacks, an' " "Not me on an edge like that and ne'er a rope to lay hold of." "Ropewalking's no part of a seaman's duty," and the like, while Torode stormed between whiles and cursed them for cowards. "Bien!" I heard at last. "If you are all such curs, I'll go myself. If he shows, shoot him. You're brave enough for that. He can't hurt you."
Has no one ridden across yet?" "But yes, Helier Godfray rode over all right. All the same " said one, with a shrug and shake of the head. "It's as easy as any other road if you've got a steady head and a firm hand," said Torode. "Will you ride, Carette, or walk?" I asked. "I shall lead Gray Robin." She looked down into my eyes for one moment, and I looked up into hers.
"And we came in here on Tuesday! Is it Thursday of this week or Thursday of next week, Uncle George?" "This week," he said with surprise, for he could not possibly understand how completely we had lost count of time. "Torode came across himself with four big boat-loads of rascals, with carronades in their boats, too, and they have turned the Island upside down in search of you.
It might mean everything. I chose to believe it meant everything. And I knew that even if I were dead she would never listen to young Torode if a glimmer of the truth came to her ears, for she was the soul of honour. Then came a matter which at once added to my anxieties, and set work to my hands which kept my mind from dwelling too darkly on its own troubles.
"May I beg the first dance, mademoiselle?" broke in young Torode, for the couples were whirling past us and he had waited impatiently while we talked. "I must go and tie up my hair first. It looks like a tangle of vraic," she laughed, and slipped away by the sides of the room and disappeared through the doorway.
"What ?" he began. "Torode of Herm is there." "The devil! Did he see you?" "I think so. Yes, he looked at me through the looking-glass." "No time to lose then!" and he sped down the yard, and through the slit of a door, and down the dark road, and I was not a foot behind him. "You are quite sure, Carré?" he panted, as we ran. "Quite sure. His eyes drew mine, and I knew him as he knew me."
They had snatched their guns from the hanging racks and come at once. They gave a shout at sight of me behind the stack and Torode's body being dragged slowly up the path. The Herm men gave them a hasty volley and went off over Little Sercq towards Gorey, two of them carrying young Torode between them, and the Sercq men came running across the Coupée to greet me. "Sercq wins!" cried one.
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