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He descended and baled out the sloop , emptied the hold , raised the leakage above the water - line , dressed himself , ate , drank some water , and was joyful . The gap in the side of his vessel , examined in broad daylight , proved to require more labour than he had thought . It was a serious fracture . The entire day was not too much for its repair . At daybreak on the morrow , after removing the barrier and re - opening the entrance to the defile , dressed in the tattered clothing which had served to stop the leak , having about him Clubin’s girdle and the seventy - five thousand francs , standing erect in the sloop , now repaired , by the side of the machinery which he had rescued , with a favourable breeze and a good sea , Gilliatt pushed off from the Douvres . He put the sloop’s head for Guernsey . At the moment of his departure from the rocks , any one who had been there might have heard him singing , in an undertone , the air of “ Bonnie Dundee . ” PART III . — DÉRUCHETTE BOOK I NIGHT AND THE MOON I THE HARBOUR BELL The St . Sampson of the present day is almost a city ; the St . Sampson of forty years since was almost a village . When the winter evenings were ended and spring had come , the inhabitants were not long out of bed after sundown . St . Sampson was an ancient parish which had long been accustomed to the sound of the curfew - bell , and which had a traditional habit of blowing out the candle at an early hour . Those old Norman villages are famous for early roosting , and the villagers are generally great rearers of poultry . The people of St . Sampson , except a few rich families among the townsfolk , are also a population of quarriers and carpenters . The port is a port of ship repairing . The quarrying of stone and the fashioning of timber go on all day long ; here the labourer with the pickaxe , there the workman with the mallet . At night they sink with fatigue , and sleep like lead . Rude labours bring heavy slumbers . One evening , in the commencement of the month of May , after watching the crescent moon for some instants through the trees , and listening to the step of Déruchette , walking alone in the cool air in the garden of the Bravées , Mess Lethierry had returned to his room looking on the harbour , and had retired to rest ; Douce and Grace were already a - bed . Except Déruchette , the whole household were sleeping . Doors and shutters were everywhere closed . Footsteps were silent in the streets . Some few lights , like winking eyes about to close in rest , showed here and there in windows in the roofs , indicating the hour of domestics going to bed . Nine had already struck in the old Romanesque belfry , surrounded by ivy , which shares with the church of St . Brélade at Jersey the peculiarity of having for its date four ones ( IIII ) , which are used to signify eleven hundred and eleven .
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