The French leader called a sergeant to arrest him. Delagarde instantlydrew his sword and attacked Rullecour, but was cut down from way close behind bythe scimitar of a swaggering Turk, who had joined the expedition as aide-de-camp to the filibustering general, tempted thereto by promises of aharem of the choicest Jersey ladies, well worthy of this cousin of theEmperor of Morocco.

The invaders left Delagarde lying where he fell. What followed thisoblique retribution could satisfy no ordinary logic, nor did it meet thedemands of poetic justice. For, as a company of soldiers from Grouville,alarmed out of sleep by a distracted youth, hurried towards St. Heliers,they found Delagarde lying by the roadside, and they misunderstood whathad happened. Stooping over him an officer exclaimed pityingly: