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He had satisfaction that he had displaced Carnac in this great business, and there was growing in him a desire to take away the chances of the girl from Carnac also. With his nature it was inevitable. Life to him was now a puzzle towards the solution of which he moved with conquering conviction. From John Grier's face now, he realized that something was to be said affecting his whole career.
"That didn't come out at the inquest, did it?" "Not likely. She wrote it me. I'm telling you what I've never told anyone." He shut the door, as though to make a confessional. "She wrote it me, and I wasn't telling anyone-but no. She'd been away down at Quebec City, and there a man got hold of her. Almeric Tarboe it was the older brother of Luke Tarboe at John Grier's."
"One of the most concerned," he answered with a smile not so composed as her own. "It's the honour of the name that's at stake." "You want to ruin Mr. Grier's chances in the fight?" "I didn't say that.
Grier with them to-day," Helen answered, courteously; but there was an absent look in her eyes, and she did not listen closely. "Well, people like a change once in a while," Mrs. Grier admitted, rocking hard. "Mr. Grier's discourse was to be on the same subject as your husband's, foreign missions.
Next morning a native came in to Stiffy and Mahooley's with the information that two York boats were coming up the lake in company. One was enough to make a gala day. Later came word that they had landed at Grier's Point. This was two miles east. Owing to low water in the lake, laden boats could not come closer in. The first was the police boat, with supplies for the post and for the Indian agent.
It was all better than he had dared to hope, for he liked the business, and he loathed the way the world had looked at John Grier's will. "Halves, pardner, halves!" he said, assenting gladly, and held out his hand. They clasped hands warmly. The door opened and Junia appeared. She studied their faces anxiously.
Mrs. Grier's face was not that of one who had good news. The long arms almost hurt when they embraced her. Yet Carnac was a subject of talk between them open, clear eyed talk. The woman did not know what to say, except to praise her boy, and the girl asked questions cheerfully, unimportantly as to sound, but with every nerve tingling.
Carnac returned to his office with angry feelings at his heart. The Belloc man ought to have been arrested for manslaughter, he thought. In any case, he had upheld the honour of John Grier's firm by his protest, and the newspapers spoke not unfavourably of him in their reports. They said he was a man of courage to say what he did, though it was improper, from a legal standpoint.
To which end she had done her best to strengthen a mean hold on Letty. Now, as she was brushing out Letty's brown hair, and silently putting two and two together the while, an idea occurred to her which pleased her. After Grier had left her, Letty could not make up her mind to go to bed. She was still pacing up and down the room in her dressing-gown, when she heard a knock Grier's knock.
Carnac for a moment looked at his father meditatively. Then, seeing the surprise in John Grier's face, he said: "No, I'm not going to be a success in it, for I'm not going on with it. I've had enough. I'm through." "You've had enough you're through just when you've proved you can do things as well as I can do them! You ain't going on! Great Jehoshaphat!" "I mean it; I'm not going on.
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