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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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