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"AT OUR PRICE ?" West of the city of Montreal were the works and the offices of John Grier.

Here it was that a thing was done without which there might have been no real story to tell.

It was a night which marked the close of the financial year of the firm.
Upon John Grier had come Carnac.

He had brought with him a small statue of a riverman with flannel shirt, scarf about the waist, thick defiant trousers and well-weaponed boots.