He therefore set out the next morning, without seeing M.de Chamillard again.
Cavalier on arriving at Macon found that his comrades had had a visit from M.d'Aygaliers, who had come again to Paris, in the hope of obtaining more from the king than M.de Villars could or would grant.
Cavalier, without telling his comrades of the strange manner in which the king had received him, gave them to understand that he was beginning to fear that not only would the promises they had received be broken, but that some strange trick would be played upon them.
Thereupon these men, whose chief and oracle he had been for so long, asked him what they ought to do; Cavalier replied that if they would follow him, their best course and his would be to take the first opportunity of gaining the frontier and leaving the country.

They all declared themselves ready to follow him anywhere.

This caused Cavalier a new pang of regret, for he could not help recollecting that he had once had under his command fifteen hundred men like these.
The next day Cavalier and his comrades set out on their march without knowing whither they were being taken, not having been able to obtain any information as to their destination from their escort--a silence which confirmed them in their resolution.

As soon, therefore, as they reached Onnan, Cavalier declared that he considered that the looked-for opportunity had arrived, asking them if they were still in the same mind: they returned that they would do whatever he advised.

Cavalier then ordered them to hold themselves in readiness, Daniel offered up a prayer, and the prayer ended, the whole company deserted in a body, and, crossing Mont Belliard, entered Porentruy, and took the road to Lausanne.
Meantime d'Aygaliers, in his turn, arrived at Versailles, with letters from M.de Villars for the Duke of Beauvilliers, president of the king's council, and for Chamillard.