The young women in general answered their friend's expectations, but of course there were disappointing instances.

One of these had caused Miss Barfoot special distress.

A young girl whom she had released from a life of much hardship, and who, after a couple of months' trial, bade fair to develop noteworthy ability, of a sudden disappeared.

She was without relatives in London, and Miss Barfoot's endeavours to find her proved for several weeks very futile.

Then came news of her; she was living as the mistress of a married man.