After fleeing the hunters, Ralph hides in the bushes not far from Castle Rock. When night falls, he climbs up the cliff to where Sam and Eric are on watch and tries to reason with them. He says he only wanted to be rescued. Sam and Eric tell him he needs to leave. They say the hunters will be coming after him in the morning. He wakes to the sound of their calls and hides in a thicket, but Sam and Eric tell Jack where Ralph said he would be hiding. Jack has the other boys push great rocks down on the thicket, then start a fire to smoke Ralph out. Ralph flees, stabbing one of the hunters on his way. He runs to the far end of the island, then doubles back when the pursuit comes close. The whole island is on fire now. Ralph hides again, but Roger finds him, and Ralph stabs Roger, fleeing all the way down to the beach, where he looks up to see a naval officer standing on the beach. After hearing some of the story, the officer says he will rescue them.