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Updated: June 25, 2025
It was a land where it seemed as if it must be always summer and generally afternoon, a land where bees hummed among the wild thyme and in the flower beds of cottage gardens, where the harvest-mice rustled amid the corn and nettles, and the mill-race flowed cool and silent through water-weeds and dark tunnelled sluices, and made soft droning music with the wooden mill-wheel.
On a certain stream in one of the central states was a fine waterfall. The early settlers built a mill there. The water turned the mill-wheel and then passed on to water the valley and turn other mill-wheels. But one night the old mill was destroyed by fire. It was not rebuilt, but some distance from the stream a new steam mill was built, the motive power of which was natural gas.
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.
It had been the nearest thing he had ever known; for though once he had had a pistol pointed at him, there was the chance that it might miss at half-a-dozen yards, while there was no chance of the lever of the flume going wrong; and water and a mill-wheel were as absolute as the rope of the gallows.
The mill-wheel was going same as a "whirlingig" was there nobody to "hould the brake?" The stable roof was stripped, and the mare was tearing herself to pieces in a roaring "pit of hell" was there never a shoulder for the door? Only when Cæsar had been pacified was there silence to speak of Kate.
We therefore passed by, and pitched our tents beside a village, in the neighbourhood of which large and splendid cisterns of water, hewn in the rock, are to be seen. The superfluous water from these cisterns falls from a height of twenty or thirty feet, and after turning a mill-wheel, flows through the vale in the form of a brook.
"It was intended for the passage of horses, so that a man might mount here and ride out into the mill-stream, actually beneath the mill-wheel which conceals the exit." Juliette, a cloak thrown over her evening dress, had accompanied them and stood near, holding a lantern above her head to give them light. It was an odd scene a strange occupation for the last of the de Gemosacs.
Key, I SAW 'EM climbin'! And when I pulled myself together and got back to the mill, everything was quiet; and, by G d, so was the mill-wheel, and there wasn't two inches of water in the river!" "And what did you think of it?" said Key, interested in spite of his impatience. "I thought, Mr. Key No! I mustn't say I thought, for I knowed it. I knowed that suthin' had happened to my wife!"
It had scarcely run six miles from its source before it touched our mill-wheel; but in that space and time it had gathered strong and copious volume. Whatever the cause may have been, the river well deserved its title.
I knew that he would row me to the shore. Alayn, my cousin, would have prevented me; but I would not hear him. What was the rushing stream, or the whirling mill-wheel to me? I saw not danger when I thought I could save the noble Count." "Brave girl! brave girl!" interrupted Margaret, in palpitating excitement.
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