of
its murder he set a price on the heads of Roland, Ravanel, and Catinat.
Still the example set by Cavalier, joined to the resumption of
hostilities, was not without influence on the Camisards; every day
letters arrived from single troopers offering to lay down their arms, and
in one day thirty rebels came in and put themselves into Lalande's hands,
while twenty surrendered to Grandval; these were accorded not only
pardon, but received a reward, in hopes that they might be able to induce
others to do like them; and on the 15th June eight of the troops which
had abandoned Cavalier at Calvisson made submission; while twelve others
asked to be allowed to return to their old chief to follow him wherever
he went. This request was at once granted: they were sent to
Valabregues, where they found forty-two of their old comrades, amongst
whom were Duplan and Cavalier's young brother, who had been ordered there
a few days before. As they arrived they were given quarters in the
barracks, and received good pay--the chiefs forty sous a day, and the
privates ten. So they felt as happy as possible, being well fed and well
lodged, and spent their time preaching, praying, and psalm-singing, in
season and out of season. All this, says La Baume, was so disagreeable
to the inhabitants of the place, who were Catholics, that if they had not
been guarded by the king's soldiers they would have been pitched into the
Rhone.

CHAPTER V

Meantime the date of Cavalier's departure drew near. A town was to be
named in which he was to reside at a sufficient distance from the theatre
of war to prevent the rebels from depending on him any more; in this town
he was to organise his regiment, and as soon as it was complete it was to
go, under his command, to Spain, and fight for the king. M. de Villars
was still on the same friendly terms with him, treating him, not like a
rebel, but according to his new rank in the French army. On the 21st
June he told him that he was to get ready to leave the next day, and at
the same time he handed him an advance on their future pay--fifty Louis
for himself, thirty for Daniel Billard, who had been made
lieutenant-colonel in the place of Ravanel, ten for each captain, five
for each lieutenant, two for each sergeant, and one for each private.
The number of his followers had then reached one hundred and fifty, only
sixty of whom were armed. M. de Vassiniac, major in the Fimarcn regiment,
accompanied them wi