Till the Senechal bids me go, I stop here;" and Tanquerel shrugged his shoulders and went off down the slope to his pots.
"More trouble," said Carre gloomily.
"We'll meet it--with our fists," said Hamon cheerfully.

"M.

le Senechal is not going to be browbeaten by a man he's flung out of the Island." And so it turned out.

The cutter had brought M.Le Masurier a letter from the authorities in Guernsey which pleased him not at all.

It informed him that Martel, having married into Sercq and settled on Sercq, belonged to Sercq, and they would have none of him, and were accordingly sending him home again.
When Martel appeared to lodge his complaint, and claim the old Island right to cessation of oppression and trial of his cause, M.le Senechal was prepared for him.