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JOHN GRIER MAKES ANOTHER OFFER.
"I've been keeping my eye on you, Tarboe," John Grier said presently, his right hand clutching unconsciously the statue which his boy had left with him.
"I didn't suppose you'd forget me when I was making or breaking you." "You're a winner, Tarboe.

You've got sense and judgment, and you ain't afraid to get your own way by any route." He paused, and gripped the statue closely in his hands.
Tarboe nodded.

In the backwoods he had been without ambition save to be master of what he was doing and of the men who were part of his world of responsibility.

Then John Grier had pulled him back into industry and he had since desired to ascend, to "make good." Also, he had seen Junia often, and for her an aspiration had sprung up in him like a fire in a wild place.
When he first saw her, she was standing in the doorway through which Carnac had just passed.