"Will you help me ?" His voice was steady but weak.

The foreman and Giovanni helped him to stand on his left foot, and putting his arms round their necks he swung himself along as he could.

The dark man had picked up his blow-pipe and was at work again.
"You will pay for that when the master comes back," Piero said to him as Zorzi passed.

"You will starve if you are not careful." Zorzi turned his head and looked the dark man full in the eyes.
"It was an accident," he said faintly.

"You did not mean to do it." The man looked away shamefacedly, for he knew that even if he had not meant to injure Zorzi for life, he had meant to hurt him if he could.
As for Giovanni, he was puzzled by all that had happened so unexpectedly, for he was a dull man, though very keen for gain, and he did not understand human nature.