julie is on the waterfront, looking for passage on a ship in the harbor, but no one will row her out: the weather is bad and getting worse. the pig sees her and threatens to expose verne unless she agrees to go back to the island with him—and marry him. she scorns him at first, but realizing this is verne’s only hope, she agrees, on condition that she be allowed to say goodbye, alone. her conversation with verne is agonizing, and when the pig comes into the hut, verne assumes the worst. in the end, julie goes with the pig. cambreau is now the only person who knows that verne is alive, and verne will feel safer if he is dead. in spite of the terrible weather, they row out to the boat with the fisherman. it is not until after they get there that cambreau says he should stay behind; there are people he might help. verne decides to kill him, and punches him in the jaw, deliberately knocking him overboard into the crashing waves. cambreau clings to a piece of driftwood, evoking the image of christ on calvary's cross.