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THE PUZZLE.
On his way home, with Luzanne's disturbing letter in his pocket, Carnac met Junia.

She was supremely Anglo-Saxon; fresh, fervid and buoyant with an actual buoyancy of the early spring.

She had tact and ability, otherwise she could never have preserved peace between the contending factions, Belloc and Fabian, old John Grier, the mother and Carnac.

She was as though she sought for nothing, wished nothing but the life in which she lived.