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THE READING OF THE WILL.
As Tarboe stood in the church alone at the funeral, in a pew behind John Grier's family, sadness held him.

He had known, as no one else knew, that the business would pass into his own hands.

He suddenly felt his task too big for him, and he looked at Carnac now with sympathy.

Carnac had brains, capacity, could almost take his father's place; he was tactful, intuitive, alert.