With them, and with two or three others who were engaged at the saw-mills, he remained till the night was dark.

Then he came down and told something of his intentions to his stepmother.

He was going to Colmar on the morrow with a horse and small cart, and would take with him what clothes he had ready.

He did not speak to Marie that night, but he said something to his father about the timber and the mill.

Gaspar Muntz, the head woodsman, knew, he said, all about the business.