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It was clear that the problem must be worked out alone between these two people, though he was not quite sure what the problem was. The man had said the thing was over; but the woman had come, and the look of both showed that it was not all over. What would the man do? What was it the woman wished to do? The master-carpenter had said that Jean Jacques had spared him, and meant to forgive his wife.
Below him in the empty flume was the master-carpenter giving a last inspection to the repairs. Beyond the master-carpenter far beyond was the great mill-wheel! Behind himself, Jean Jacques, was the river held back by the dam; and if the lever was opened, the river would sweep through the raised gates down the flume to the millwheel with the man.
"Ah that!" he said helplessly. "That! The little Zoe dear God, the little Zoe, and the poor madame!" His voice was aching with pain and repugnance. "If you were not such an icicle naturally, I'd be thinking your interest in the child was paternal," said the master-carpenter roughly, for the virtuous horror of the other's face annoyed him. He had had a vexing day.
She would love to play it once again with the old thrill; with the thrill she had felt on the night of Zoe's birthday a little while ago, when she was back again with her lover and the birds in the gardens of Granada. She would sing to someone who cared to hear her, and to someone who would make her care to sing, which was far more important. She would sing to the master-carpenter.
Not daring to look at the face of the woman, he softly disappeared into the other room, and shut the door without a sound. "Too good for this world," remarked the master-carpenter when the door closed tight. He said it after the disappearing figure and not to Carmen. "I don't suppose he ever kissed a real grown-up woman in his life.
Below him in the empty flume was the master-carpenter giving a last inspection to the repairs. Beyond the master-carpenter far beyond was the great mill-wheel! Behind himself, Jean Jacques, was the river held back by the dam; and if the lever was opened, the river would sweep through the raised gates down the flume to the millwheel with the man.
With a groan the master-carpenter started forward towards the door, but M. Fille stepped between, laid a hand on his arm, and stopped him. "Oh, who will walk the wood with me, I fear to walk alone; So young am I, as you may see; No dangers have I known. So young, so small ah, yes, m'sieu', I'll walk the wood with you!"
Saviour's. There was not a more restless soul or body in all the hemisphere than the soul and body of Carmen Barbille, as she went from this to that on the morning when Jean Jacques had refrained from killing the soul-disturber, the master-carpenter, who had with such skill destroyed the walls and foundations of his home. Carmen was pointlessly busy as she watched for the return of Jean Jacques.
"He saw from the hill behind the Manor on Tuesday last." There was a tap at the door of the other room; it slowly opened, and the figure of the Clerk appeared. "Two minutes just two minutes more, old trump!" said the master-carpenter, stretching out a hand. "One minute will be enough," said Carmen, who was suffering the greatest humiliation which can come to a woman.
And Jean Jacques said only the obvious thing when he made up his mind to do the obvious thing to kill George Masson, the master-carpenter. This was evidence that he was no genius. Anybody could think of killing a man who had injured him, as the master-carpenter had done Jean Jacques. It is the solution of the problem of the Patagonian. It is old as Rameses.
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