A DISAPPOINTING APPOINTMENT For the sake of Pet Carnaby and of themselves, the ladies of the house were disquieted now, in the first summer weather of a wet cold year, the year of our Lord 1801.

And their trouble arose as follows: There had long been a question between the sisters and Sir Walter Carnaby, brother of the late colonel, about an exchange of outlying land, which would have to be ratified by "Pet" hereafter.

Terms being settled and agreement signed, the lawyers fell to at the linked sweetness of deducing title.

The abstract of the Yordas title was nearly as big as the parish Bible, so in and out had their dealings been, and so intricate their pugnacity.
Among the many other of the Yordas freaks was a fatuous and generally fatal one.

For the slightest miscarriage they discharged their lawyer, and leaped into the office of a new one.