~~¢{ To CARIBOO AND BACK }-—

the high lights of civilization as the real thing.

I found fine, cultured men and women there,
leading the lives of pioneers it is true, but
enjoying comfort and refinement. I had a
happy time there, my friends. They begged me
to stay, and so I might have done, if word had ~
not been brought down of the arrival at Quesnel
of another party of Overlanders, with a woman
and child among them. Of course, I knew that
these could only be the Little General and our
Golden Betty. So straightway I set out with’
the first pack train bound for the Cariboo, to
find them. And here I am!”

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