If a rescuer was even within one foot of Jean Jacques, the deed could still be done.

It was so much easier opening than shutting the gates of the flume! "Why should I wait, devil and rogue ?" The words came from Jean Jacques' lips with a snarl.

"I am going to kill you.

It will do you no good to whine--cochon!" To call a man a pig is the worst insult which could be offered by one man to another in the parish of St.Saviour's.

To be called a pig as you are going to die, is an offensive business indeed.
"I know you are going to kill me--that you can kill me, and I can do nothing," was the master-carpenter's reply.