CHAPTER X."QUIEN SABE"-- WHO KNOWS!.
This much must be said for George Masson, that after the terrible incident at the flume he would have gone straight to the Manor Cartier to warn Carmen, if it had been possible, though perhaps she already knew.

But there was Jean Jacques on his way back to the Manor, and nothing remained but to proceed to Laplatte, and give the woman up for ever.

He had no wish to pull up stakes again and begin life afresh, though he was only forty, and he had plenty of initiative left.

But if he had to go, he would want to go alone, as he had done before.

Yes, he would have liked to tell Carmen that Jean Jacques knew everything; but it was impossible.