pair. Miss Sinclair had already made her _debut_ in Boston Music
Hall as a vocalist, and the pair were frequently engaged at the same
concerts and entertainments, so that the natural sequence was that
they in time became engaged, and afterwards--_married_!

"Nothing very mysterious in that," I think I hear my fair reader say,
a little disappointed that I have not prepared a spicy bit of
scandal for her delectation; but as Balaam the Prophet could only
speak as he was impelled by the spirit, so likewise must I confine
myself to _the realities_ of the case, and I therefore make no
apology for this commonplace bit of history, but proceed with my
story.

One evening Lulu made her appearance at our house, in Montreal,
accompanied by Mr. Hill, her husband. It seems that they were on a
concert tour, and were to give two concerts in Saint Patrick's Hall,
which at that time stood on the corner of Craig street and Victoria
square, and, as we had often invited them to do so, they promised to
avail themselves of our hospitality during their stay, as their
engagement terminated with these concerts and they were anxious to
take a little rest before returning to Boston.

The children were delighted to have Mr. and Mrs. Hill in the house
with them; they had never met a _real live prima donna_ in private
life before, and they flaunted "Professor Hill" and "Mademoiselle
Lulu Sinclair" in the faces of their juvenile acquaintances, as if
they had been entertaining the Emperor of all the Russias and Her
Imperial Majesty the Empress.

Since the Sinclairs had left Montreal, the principal playmates of