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Title: Carnac's Folly, Complete

Author: Gilbert Parker

Last Updated: March 14, 2009
Release Date: October 18, 2006 [EBook #6299]

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CARNAC'S FOLLY

By Gilbert Parker

CONTENTS:

BOOK I
I. IN THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD
II. ELEVEN YEARS PASS
III. CARNAC'S RETURN
IV. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
V. CARNAC AS MANAGER
VI. LUKE TARBOE HAS AN OFFER
VII. "AT OUR PRICE"
VIII. JOHN GRIER MAKES ANOTHER OFFER
IX. THE PUZZLE
X. DENZIL TELLS HIS STORY
XI. CARNAC'S TALK WITH HIS MOTHER
XII. CARNAC SAYS GOOD-BYE

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

BOOK III
XVIII. A GREAT DECISION
XIX. CARNAC BECOMES A CANDIDATE
XX. JUNIA AND TARBOE HEAR THE NEWS
XXI. THE SECRET MEETING
XXII. POINT TO POINT
XXIII. THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT
XXIV. THE BLUE PAPER
XXV. DENZIL TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME
XXVI. THE CHALLENGE
XXVII. EXIT
XXVIII. A WOMAN WRITES A LETTER
XXIX. CARNAC AND HIS MOTHER
XXX. TARBOE HAS A DREAM
XXXI. THIS WAY HOME
XXXII. 'HALVES, PARDNER, HALVES'

CHAPTER I. IN THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD

"Carnac! Carnac! Come and catch me, Carnac!" It was a day of perfect
summer and hope and happiness in the sweet, wild world behind the near
woods and the far circle of sky and pine and hemlock. The voice that
called was young and vibrant, and had in it the simple, true soul of
things. It had the clearness of a bugle-call-ample and full of life and
all life's possibilities. It laughed; it challenged; it decoyed.

Carnac heard the summons and did his best to catch the girl in the wood
by the tumbling stream, whe