I -- I wish I had known this before . '' `` Why , what difference does it make ? It 's all right , anyway . But it is odd to think that if your name had n't been Campbell , the Fraser would have gone to McLean over the heads of Stone and all the rest . Their only hope was that you would both fall below seventy . It 's an absurd condition , but there it is in old Professor Fraser 's will . He was rich and had no family . So he left a number of bequests to the college on ordinary conditions . I suppose he thought he might humour his whim in one . His widow is a dear old soul , and always makes a special pet of the boy who wins the Fraser . Well , here 's my street . So long , Campbell . '' Elliott responded almost curtly and walked onward to his boarding-house with a face from which all the light had gone . When he reached his room he took down the Marwood calendar and whirled over the leaves until he came to the announcement of bursaries and scholarships . The Fraser announcement , as far as he had read it , ended at the foot of the page . He turned the leaf and , sure enough , at the top of the next page , in a paragraph by itself , was the condition : `` Preference shall be given to candidates of the name Fraser , Campbell or McLean , provided that said competitor makes at least seventy per cent in his examination . '' Elliott flung himself into a chair by his table and bowed his head on his hands . He had no right to the Fraser Scholarship . His name was not Campbell , although perhaps nobody in the world knew it save himself , and he remembered it only by an effort of memory . He had been born in a rough mining camp in British Columbia , and when he was a month old his father , John Hanselpakker , had been killed in a mine explosion , leaving his wife and child quite penniless and almost friendless .
One XXXXX the miners , an honest , kindly Scotchman named Alexander Campbell , had befriended Mrs. Hanselpakker and her little son in many ways , and two years later she had married him .
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