I WILL REMEMBER The Albert was by all odds the exclusive club in the capital city of upper Canada, for men were loath to drop the old name.

Its members belonged to the best families, and moved in the highest circles, and the entre was guarded by a committee of exceeding vigilance.

They had a very real appreciation of the rights and privileges of their order, and they cherished for all who assayed to enter the most lofty ideal.

Not wealth alone could purchase entrance within those sacred precincts unless, indeed, it were of sufficient magnitude and distributed with judicious and unvulgar generosity.

A tinge of blue in the common red blood of humanity commanded the most favorable consideration, but when there was neither cerulean tinge of blood nor gilding of station the candidate for membership in the Albert was deemed unutterable in his presumption, and rejection absolute and final was inevitable.