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How did you come to know him? Answer that." She paused and Luzanne flushed. The first meeting! Why, that was the day Carnac had saved her life, had taken her home safe from danger, and had begun a friendship with behind it only a desire to help her. And how had she repaid the saviour of her life? By tricking him into a marriage, and then by threatening him if he did not take her to his home.
He bade her remain secret till the time was ripe, and he was to be the judge of that. He was waiting for the night before the election. Then he was going to strike you and win!" "She told you that Luzanne told you that?" "And much else. Besides, she told me you had saved her life from the street-cars; that you had played fair at the start." "First and last I played fair," he said indignantly.
He would give his right hand to help Carnac win against the danger Junia had suggested. It could not be aught to Carnac's discredit, or Junia would not have tried to get the danger out of Montreal; he had seen Luzanne, and she might be deadly, if she had a good weapon! Presently, he saw Barouche and his agent stop at the door of a livery- stable, and were told that no cabs were available.
She laughed, and went down the hill quickly, and as she went Carnac thought he had never seen so graceful a figure. "What an evil Fate sent Luzanne my way!" he said. Two days later there came an ugly incident on the river. There was a collision between a gang of John Grier's and Belloc's men and one of Grier's men was killed.
When it was finished, Carnac and Luzanne sat down under a tree and talked cheerfully, and Luzanne was never so effective as she was that day. They laughed over the mock ceremony to be performed. "I'm a Catholic, you know," said Luzanne, "and it isn't legal in my church with no dispensation to be married to a Protestant like you. But as it is, what does it matter!"
It's because of him I've been here quiet all these weeks as Ma'm'selle Larue." "He is worse than you, mademoiselle, for he has known Carnac's family, and he has no excuse. If a man can't win his fight fairly, he oughtn't to be in public life." After a few dark moments, with a sudden burst of feeling, Luzanne said: "Well, Carnac won't be out of public life through me!"
And who will read the document?" "Who but the man he's trying to defeat? tell me that." "You mean Barode Barouche?" "Who else?" "Has he agreed to do it?" Luzanne nodded. "On the day Carnac became a candidate." "And if Carnac Grier denies it?" "He won't deny it. He never has. He says he was drunk when the thing was done mais, oui." "Is that all he says?" "No.
Junia nodded, and in her smile was understanding and conflict, for she felt this girl to be her foe. "We must have a talk that's sure," Luzanne said with decision. "Who are you?" asked Junia calmly. "I am Luzanne Larue." "That makes me no wiser." "Hasn't Carnac Grier spoken of me?" Junia shook her head, and turned her face towards the door of Madame Grandois' room.
While these things were happening, Carnac was spending all his time in the constituency. Every day was busy to the last minute, every hole in the belt of his equipment was buckled tight. In spite of his enthusiasm he was, however, troubled by the fact that Luzanne might appear. Yet as time went on he gained confidence.
"Who is Luzanne, and what does it mean?" What she had read was startling. He slowly seated himself beside her. "I will tell you." When Carnac had ended his painful story, she said to him: "It's terrible oh, terrible. But there was divorce." "Yes, but they told me I couldn't get a divorce. Yet I wish now I'd tried for it. I've never heard a word from the girl till I got that letter.
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