Mornay--said that if Jean Jacques had been started right and trained right, he would have been a "general in the financial field, winning big battles." M.Mornay chanced to be a friend of Judge Carcasson, and when he visited Vilray he remembered that the Judge had spoken often of his humble but learned friend, the Clerk of the Court, and of his sister.

So M.
Mornay made his way from the office of the firm of avocats whom he had instructed in his affairs with Jean Jacques, to that of M.Fille.

Here he was soon engaged in comment on the master-miller and philosopher.
"He has had much trouble, and no doubt his affairs have suffered," remarked M.Fille cautiously, when the ice had been broken and the Big Financier had referred casually to the difficulties among which Jean Jacques was trying to maintain equilibrium; "but he is a man who can do things too hard for other men." The Big Financier lighted another cigar and blew away several clouds of smoke before he said in reply, "Yes, I know he has had family trouble again, but that is a year ago, and he has had a chance to get another grip of things." "He did not sit down and mope," explained M.Fille.

"He was at work the next day after his daughter's flight just the same as before.

He is a man of great courage.