He had promised, one Christmas vacation, to sing at a charity concert in town, and went out, when only just recovering from influenza, to fulfil this engagement.

He had a relapse, double pneumonia set in, and he died in five days from heart failure.

My poor aunt was frantic with grief; and since then any mention of my love of music makes her very bitter.

I, too, wanted to take it up professionally, but she put her foot down heavily.

I scarcely ever venture to sing or play here." "Why not elsewhere ?" asked Garth Dalmain.