there traveled from
place to place giving occasional concerts and everywhere winning many
friends. Invitations to visit the homes of private families came to them
freely and for Camilla the trip was a very happy one. So happy indeed
that she was unwilling to leave her new friends even when the news of
her mother's arrival in New York was received. M. Urso went on to
receive his wife, but Camilla persisted in staying where she was. She
was the admired and sought after young girl. Every one seemed ready to
offer her every pleasure and attention and she was far from willing to
return to the life of concert giving and practice.

Concerning the music that Mademoiselle Urso played at this time, we may
mention a few of the pieces usually given at her concerts. They give us
not only an idea of her musical ability, but serve to illustrate the
character of the concert pieces in vogue at that time. No musical life
would be complete, even if it is that of a "wonder-child" without some
information concerning the actual work performed. Mademoiselle Urso was
not in any sense limited in her range of pieces. She did not have a mere
stock set that she always played. She could and did play everything that
had been printed for the violin. In her girlhood's concerts she chose
those most popular without much regard to their actual position in the
art. She had not then reached her true artist-life and was not, as now,
in a position to lead the public taste into the higher fields of classic
music. She played then such pieces as the _Violin Concerto_, by
_Viotti_, _Alard's Souvenir_ the _Daughter of the Regiment_, _Souvenir
de Gretry_, _Souvenir de Mozart_, by _Leonard_, and the _Tremolo_, by
_De Beriot_. She also gave at times the _Witches' Dance_, by _Paganini_
and _La Melancholie_, by _Prune_.

After some delay Camilla joined her father and mother at New York, and
the family were once more reunited. It was at this time that they had
the misfortune to have their rooms entered, and all the presents,
including the pearl cross that Camilla had received on that almost
forgotten German tour, were stolen.

The family were not united long. In the Fall Mrs. Macready, the reader,
invited Camilla to join her troupe on a tour through the West. As mother
and daughter had been separated for a long time Madam Urso traveled
with Camilla a portion of this journey. Unfortunately Madam Urso was
taken sick at Cincinnati and for a while Camilla traveled alone