Hazelton
she went with her father and mother to Cacouna, where they had a
summer residence. By a strange coincidence, Grandison also chose
Cacouna at which to spend his holidays, and combined business with
pleasure by giving occasional concerts at the St. Lawrence Hall,
which hotel had just been erected, and was the fashionable resort of
those people from Montreal and Quebec who could manage to exchange
the heated atmosphere of these cities for the more bracing air of
Canada's popular watering place. Mr. Hazelton was unable to leave
Montreal, and Mrs. Grandison was not disposed to accompany her
husband, even if he could have afforded to take her, in fact, the
poor woman, feeling that she was a burden and drag on her husband,
had taken to drinking, and had gradually removed herself still
further from the pale of fashionable society. Her house (which was
situated in a back street in Montreal) was not only untidy, but
positively dirty, and her children ran about the streets unclad
uneducated, and uncared for.
The Sedleys had not been long at Cacouna when one morning the old
gentleman walking out, as was his wont, before breakfast, saw
through the fog (which in this district usually hangs about for some
time after sunrise) a man descend from his daughter's bedroom window
and walk hastily in the direction of the hotel.
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