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JUNIA AND TARBOE HEAR THE NEWS.
To most people Carnac's candidature was a surprise; to some it was a bewilderment, and to one or two it was a shock.

To the second class belonged Fabian Grier and his wife; to the third class belonged Luke Tarboe.

Only one person seemed to understand it--by intuition: Junia.
Somehow, nothing Carnac did changed Junia's views of him, or surprised her, though he made her indignant often enough.

To her mind, however, in the big things, his actions always had reasonableness.