CHAPTER IV.
In the Vier Marchi the French flag was flying, French troops occupied it, French sentries guarded the five streets entering into it.
Rullecour, the French adventurer, held the Lieutenant-Governor of the isle captive in the Cohue Royale; and by threats of fire and pillage thought to force capitulation.

For his final argument he took the Governor to the doorway, and showed him two hundred soldiers with lighted torches ready to fire the town.
When the French soldiers first entered the Vier Marchi there was Dormy Jamais on the roof of the Cohue Royale, calmly munching his bread.

When he saw Rullecour and the Governor appear, he chuckled to himself, and said, in Jersey patois: "I vaut mux alouonyi l'bras que l'co," which is to say: It is better to stretch the arm than the neck.

The Governor would have done more wisely, he thought, to believe the poor beganne, and to have risen earlier.

Dormy Jamais had a poor opinion of a governor who slept.