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Many matters besides Betty’s future school-
ing were settled during the week the professor
stayed at Quesnel, but this was the most im-
portant to Betty and herself. Fred Wilfer
heartily agreed that his daughter must be sent
away to school, since there wasn’t any way of
obtaining even an elementary education in the
mining camps. And though he grieved to lose
the little girl he had just found, the opportunity
of having her go in the professor’s care was
too good to be passed by. There was a girls’
school in New Westminster where a few board-
ers were taken in, a homelike place the profes-
sor said, though called an academy. He had
met the two ladies who kept it. They were
recommended by the bishop of the diocese,
Bishop Hills, the first to come to British Co-
lumbia, and their name was McAllister. Thus
for some years at least was Golden Betty’s
fate settled.

_ As all the men of their party were by this
either mining or at some work or other, Mary
was now drawing fabulous wages from Hunky-
dory; or so it seemed to her when the sum
was named in dollars. But well she knew her
worth, and therefore she had refused to stay

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