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Title: Carnac's Folly, Complete

Author: Gilbert Parker

Release Date: October 18, 2006 [EBook #6299]
Last Updated: November 5, 2012

Language: English

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CARNAC'S FOLLY

By Gilbert Parker

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.   IN THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD

CHAPTER II.   ELEVEN YEARS PASS

CHAPTER III.   CARNAC'S RETURN

CHAPTER IV.   THE HOUSE ON THE HILL

CHAPTER V.   CARNAC AS MANAGER

CHAPTER VI.   LUKE TARBOE HAS AN OFFER

CHAPTER VII.   "AT OUR PRICE?"

CHAPTER VIII.   JOHN GRIER MAKES ANOTHER OFFER

CHAPTER IX.   THE PUZZLE

CHAPTER X.   DENZIL TELLS HIS STORY

CHAPTER XI.   CARNAC'S TALK WITH HIS MOTHER

CHAPTER XII.   CARNAC SAYS GOOD-BYE

CHAPTER XIII.   CARNAC'S RETURN

CHAPTER XIV.   THE HOUSE OF THE THREE TREES

CHAPTER XV.   CARNAC AND JUNIA

CHAPTER XVI.   JOHN GRIER MAKES A JOURNEY

CHAPTER XVII.   THE READING OF THE WILL

CHAPTER XVIII.   A GREAT DECISION

CHAPTER XIX.   CARNAC BECOMES A CANDIDATE

CHAPTER XX.   JUNIA AND TARBOE HEAR THE NEWS

CHAPTER XXI.   THE SECRET MEETING

CHAPTER XXII.   POINT TO POINT

CHAPTER XXIII.   THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT

CHAPTER XXIV.   THE BLUE PAPER

CHAPTER XXV.   DENZIL TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME

CHAPTER XXVI.   THE CHALLENGE

CHAPTER XXVII.   EXIT

CHAPTER XXVIII.      A WOMAN WRITES A LETTER

CHAPTER XXIX.   CARNAL AND HIS MOTHER

CHAPTER XXX.   TARBOE HAS A DREAM

CHAPTER XXXI.   THIS WAY HOME

CHAPTER 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 pin