DISCORD OF LEADERS A disappointment awaited him.

Miss Barfoot was not well enough to see any one.

Had she been suffering long?
he inquired.

No; it was only this evening; she had not dined, and was gone to her room.

Miss Nunn could not receive him.
He went home, and wrote to his cousin.
The next morning he came upon a passage in the newspaper which seemed to suggest a cause for Miss Barfoot's indisposition.