"I'll do it for the sake of my poor wife and for you.

She may remain on the ranch, and that shameless gringo may come with her." But he would have nothing to do with him.

The German was to be an employee under Desnoyers, and they could live in the office building as though they did not belong to the family.

He would never say a word to Karl.
But scarcely had the German returned before he began giving him orders rudely as though he were a perfect stranger.

At other times he would pass by him as though he did not know him.