--{ TO CARIBOO AND BACK }%--

CHAPTER TWENTY
A LONG-SHUT Door OPENS

Can it be that we are back in Toronto again?
Toronto with its shining blue bay and its island
stretching out long sandy arms to welcome
crowds of holiday makers? Toronto, where
long avenues of horse chestnuts hold up taper-
ing pyramids of creamy blossoms every spring-
time, where there are groves of beech trees and
elms and the green lawns are maple-shaded,
while people in happy homes rejoice in the
young life of their young country?

Yes, we must leave the Cariboo and come
back to Toronto if we are to keep near Betty
and her father, for they have recently returned
to their native city.

Fred Wilfer did not bring saddlebags of
gold with him, when after two years he at last
made up his mind to leave Williams Creek. But
he did collect some wealth, no fortune, just
enough to take him and his young daughter
away from the West and back to the East.

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