Carnac's Folly, Volume 3_

red Carnac. "You ought to know; t

en if things went wrong. There are those who would glad

t of, and I'm afraid of nothing in the las

reception. Oh, but yes, I am," she added hastily. "You always win goo

Tarboe on my side. He's a member of Bar

o?" she asked with

knife!' That's good. Tarboe has a big hold on rivermen, and he may ca

puzz

e blessed thing.' I've no idea what he meant by that. I don't think he wants me as a partner, and I'll gi

it; he's a very able ma

huge s

ore than all else," he re

success; but they'd not sell their souls for i

d he held her eyes meaningly. He was about to sa

e over the men-I don't believe Tarboe could have. They're a difficult lot. There's Eugene Grandois, he's as bad as they make 'em. He's g

were nearing the little dock, and men were co

adaptability. He had no psychological sense, and Carnac had big endowment of it. Yet Carnac was not demonstrative. It was his quiet way that played his game for him. He never spoke, if being could do

me," sneeringly said Eugene Grandois, as Carnac and

ve it both ways. If I came here any other time you'd want to know why I didn't stay away,

labourer standing near. "What you got to say to that,

had, and we all know what he was-that's

ce at Fabian, who was resentful. Indeed, Fabian would have struck the man

done? If you don't, I do, and there's lots of

ndois-none at all. It tells not

, m'sieu', you talk as if he

't, and he threw me over-what else was there to do? I could have owned the business to-day, if I

glish labourer. "That's hit you where you're

is jaws set with passion, and his sturdy frame seemed to fa

rt. He turned me and my family out into the streets in winter-t

en they were taken down with smallpox; and he kept them for weeks afterwards. You forgot to recall that when he turned you out for being six months behind with your rent and making no effort to pay up! Who was the devil and beast then, Grandois? Who spat upon his own wife and children then? You haven't a g

t between the eyes where John Grier was concerned. His prestige with the men was now under a shadow, yet he dared not deny the truth of the statement. It could be proved. His braggart hatred of John Grier had come home to roost. Carnac saw that, and he

, and how is madame,

nd the boy for which he had longed. Junia had come to know of it through a neighbour and

ma'm'selle, thank you. It w

ent them, Grandois. May I come and

had taken a f

t, and also by drinking up the cash that ought to have paid the rent. It doesn't matter now that the rent was never paid, but it does that you recall the smallpox debt. Ca

our hand on it! Here's a place

nac's hand and stood on the tub to great cheering; for if there was one thing the French- Canadians love, it is sensation,

s admired. She had the freshness of face and mind which is the heart of success with the habitants. With Eugene Grandois on his f

I'm changing my mind-certainlee. That throwing out of my house hit me and my woman and little ones hard, and I've been resentin' it all these years till now; but I'm weighin' one thing agin another, and I'm willing to forget my wro

olitical doctrine, and I've promise that the food I'm to get is what's best for all of us. M'sieu' Carna

loud cheer, and later Carnac Grier was carried to