Un Cadet de Famille, v. 3/3

A seafaring party's patrol into dense thickets becomes urgent when a withdrawn young member disappears, prompting wide searches and anxious speculation. His companions remember his deep melancholy, solitary habits, and the poems he composes during bouts of stupor linked to drug use. On a moonlit night he appears on deck in visible distress and plunges into the sea; a dramatic rescue brings him back aboard cold and unresponsive. The narrative then focuses on his comrades' desperate attempts to revive him and their concern over how long he remained submerged.