'If you've got to get your money out of a thing, it should always be in working order,' he said.

Michel acknowledged the truth of the rule, but again declared that there was no money to be got out of the thing.

He yielded, however, and promised that the repairs should be made.

Then they went down to the mill, which was going at that time.

George, as he stood by and watched the man and boy adjusting the logs to the cradle, and listened to the apparently self-acting saw as it did its work, and observed the perfection of the simple machinery which he himself had adjusted, and smelt the sweet scent of the newly-made sawdust, and listened to the music of the little stream, when, between whiles, the rattle of the mill would cease for half a minute,--George, as he stood in silence, looking at all this, listening to the sounds, smelling the perfume, thinking how much sweeter it all was than the little room in which Madame Faragon sat at Colmar, and in which it was, at any rate for the present, his duty to submit his accounts to her, from time to time,--resolved that he would at once make an effort.