Bertha went home , feeling a little bit blue in secret , it can not be denied , but also feeling quite sure that if she had to do it all over again , she would do just the same . The summer slipped quickly by , and finally two letters came to Bertha , one from Aunt Meg and one from Grace . `` I 've had a lovely time , '' wrote the latter , `` and , oh , Bertie , what do you think ? I am to stay here always . Oh , of course I am going back to school next month , but this is to be my home after this . Aunt Meg -- she makes me call her that -- says I must stay with her for good . '' In Aunt Meg 's letter was this paragraph : Grace is writing to you , and will have told you that I intend to keep her here . You know I have always wanted a daughter of my own , but my greedy brothers and sisters would never give me one of theirs . So I intend to adopt Grace . She is the sweetest girl in the world , and I am very grateful to you for sending her here . You will not know her when you see her . She has grown plump and rosy . Bertha folded her letters up with a smile . `` I have a vague , delightful feeling that I am the good angel in a storybook , '' she said . The Touch of Fate Mrs. Major Hill was in her element . This did not often happen , for in the remote prairie town of the Canadian Northwest , where her husband was stationed , there were few opportunities for match-making . And Mrs. Hill was -- or believed herself to be -- a born matchmaker . Major Hill was in command of the detachment of Northwest Mounted Police at Dufferin Bluff . Mrs. Hill was wont to declare that it was the most forsaken place to be found in Canada or out of it ; but she did her very best to brighten it up , and it is only fair to say that the N.W.M.P. , officers and men , seconded her efforts . When Violet Thayer came west to pay a long-promised visit to her old schoolfellow , Mrs. Hill 's cup of happiness bubbled over .
In her secret soul she vowed that Violet should never go back east unless it were post-haste XXXXX prepare a wedding trousseau .
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