"
"And how did you get your education, Mr. Martin?"
"Oh, they kept me at school pretty steadily, except in harvest and hay
time, until I was fourteen, and after that in the winter months. When I
was sixteen I got a teacher's certificate, and then it was easy enough."
"And did you put yourself through college?" inquired Mr. Rae, both
interest and admiration in his voice, for now they were on ground
familiar in his own experience.
"Why, yes, mostly. Father helped, I suspect more than he ought to, but
he was anxious for me to get through."
"Rob," cried Miss Brodie suddenly, "let's go! What do you say? We'll get
a big bit of that land in the West, and won't it be splendid to build up
our own estate and all that?"
Rob glanced from her into his mother's face. "I'd like it fine, Mamma,"
he said in a low voice, slipping his hand into hers.
"But what about me, Rob?" said his mother, smiling tenderly down into
the eager face.
"Oh, I'd come back for you, Mamma."
"Hold on there, youngster," said his elder brother, "there are others
that might have something to say about that. But I say, Martin,"
continued Dunn, "we hear a lot about the big ranches further West."
"Yes, in Alberta, but I confess I don't know much about them. The
railways are just building and people are beginning to go in.
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