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Before us the sun was sinking in a flood of crimson light. We walked briskly, the long legs of the Russian carrying him swiftly over the uneven ground while I trotted beside him. Before the last rays of the sun had died away we saw the black outline of the Caban Loch dam before us, and caught the sheen of water beyond.
Just below the Caban Dam is a house occupied by an inspector in charge of the gauge apparatus that is used to measure the outflow of water from the huge natural reservoirs. The lights from his house twinkled through the growing darkness as we drew near, and we skirted it by a short detour and pressed on.
He knew that world-old formula of hate; he knew of its almost innocent use in many a white caban, but its older, deeper meaning of demoniacal incantation rushed to his mind, somehow blending with the wizardry with which he surrounded his thoughts of the strange woman. A step outside crunching in the snow. The door opened, revealing Antoine Marceau.
"I think I'll do my own washing, after this." "We have to live, my wife and I, messieurs," explained the Frenchman, spreading his hands. "In France we live on ze very little. In New York we have one très bon café, and we charge ze very little. But out here " and he shrugged his shoulders. "We wash, and for zis meesairable caban what you call it? hut we pay ze price of 500 dollair ze month."
After a good harvest the caban fetches four reales; but just before the harvest the price rises to one dollar, and often much higher. Mountain rice is more remunerative than watered rice about in the proportion of nine to eight. Camote can be planted all the year around, and ripens in four months; but it takes place generally when the rice culture is over, when little labor is available.
He was perfect. On board the Tremolino, wrapped up in a black caban, the picturesque cloak of Mediterranean seamen, with those massive moustaches and his remorseless eyes set off by the shadow of the deep hood, he looked piratical and monkish and darkly initiated into the most awful mysteries of the sea. Anyway, he was perfect, as Dona Rita had declared.
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