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"MAN TO MAN AND STEEL TO STEEL".
One evening a fortnight later Louis Racine and George Fournel, the Englishman, stood face to face in the library of the Manor House.

There was antagonism and animosity in the attitude of both.

Apart from the fact that Louis had succeeded to the Seigneury promised to Fournel, and sealed to him by a reputed will which had never been found, there was cause for hatred on the Englishman's part.

Fournel had been an incredibly successful man.