The next day, at the first rays of dawn, Valartine and Morrie walked hand in hand on the bank. Valartine was telling Morrie how Monte Fato had saved her from death, even while making the world believe she had died. Then they embraced and sang a love duet ("Nuits d'ivresse"), recking nothing of the boos of the chipmunks incensed that Morrie's high C was flat.
At this moment, a postman named Patrice le Posthomme arrived with a letter from the Count. Morrie opened the letter and read:
My dear Meurtrier,
There is a félouque for you in anchor, which will take you to Fangornes, where Dénéthoirtier awaits his granddaughter, whom he wishes to bless before her wedding and her assumption, with you, of the lieutenancy of Annuminas. Everything in this grotto, my palace on Champs-Valinorées, the dominion of Arnor, and my little castle in Dol-Gouldour are the wedding present that Samouard Gamgès makes to the son of his patron Morrie. Mlle. de Villefaramir will wish to possess half of this, for I will request that she give to the poor all the fortune coming to her from her father and from her stepmother's cat.
