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    Carnac's Folly, Volume 2.
    Carnac's Folly, Volume 2.
    Carnac's Folly, Volume 2.
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    Carnac's Folly, Volume 2.

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    Gilbert Parker

    Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.

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      CARNAC'S FOLLY

      By Gilbert Parker

      BOOK II

      XIII. CARNAC'S RETURN XIV. THE HOUSE OF THE THREE TREES XV. CARNAC AND JUNTA XVI. JOHN GRIER MAKES A JOURNEY XVII. THE READING OF THE WILL

      CHAPTER XIII

      CARNAC'S RETURN

      Well, what's happened since I've been gone, mother? asked Carnac. Is nobody we're interested in married, or going to be married?

      It was spring-time eight months after Carnac had vanished from Montreal, and the sun of late April was melting the snow upon the hills, bringing out the smell of the sprouting verdure and the exultant song of the birds.

      His mother replied sorrowfully: Junia's been away since last fall. Her aunt in the West was taken ill, and she's been with her ever since. Tell me, dearest, is everything all right now? Are you free to do what you want?

      He shook his head morosely. No, everything's all wrong. I blundered, and I'm paying the price.

      You didn't find Luzanne Larue?

      Yes, I found her, but it was no good. I said there was divorce, and she replied I'd done it with my eyes open, and had signed our names in the book of the hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Carnac Grier and divorce would not be possible. Also, I'd let things go for a year, and what jury would give me relief! I consulted a lawyer. He said she had the game in her hands, and that a case could be put up that would discredit me with jury or judge, so there it is. . . . Well, bad as she is, she's fond of me in her way. I don't think she's ever gone loose with any man; this is only a craze, I'm sure. She wanted me, and she meant to have me.

      His mother protested: No pure, straight, honest girl would—

      Carnac laughed bitterly, and interrupted. "Don't talk that way, mother. The girl was brought up among exiles and

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