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THE CHALLENGE.
The day of the election came.

Never had feeling run higher, never had racial lines been so cut across.

Barode Barouche fought with vigour, but from the going of Luzanne Larue, there passed from him the confidence he had felt since the first day of Carnac's candidature.

He had had temptation to announce to those who heard him the night before the poll what Luzanne had told; but better wisdom guided him, to his subsequent content.