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One or two remembered the widow Wilkes and her daughter, and could affirm that they had been friends of McGair and had moved away after his illness. Whither they had gone no one knew. When there was nothing more to be seen or heard at Yarm, Skelton went home.
Ten years bring more change to any community than we are apt to suppose; and among the poor, where rude necessity rules rather than choice, there is more change than among the rich. There were a few who had seen McGair moving up and down the streets, and knew him to have been a book-binder by trade.
As fur as I knows, he was a good man; but I tell ye, Johnnie, that man had a will whatsoever thing Dan'el McGair wanted, that thing he mun have, if he died i' the getting.
The medical interest which had at first been aroused by the case appeared to have died away; and it was only after some time spent in interviewing officials that he at last found the man, Daniel McGair. A parish apothecary had him in charge.
Then he confessed, humbly enough, just how he did know it, and all that he knew, and told her about his visit to Yarm. When he spoke of Yarm and his visit to Daniel McGair she turned and looked full at him, drinking in every word with hungry curiosity. 'Yes, sir, we left the place, an' I haven't heard o' him this nine year, but I knowed he wasn't dead. 'How did you know that, Jen?
Well, mother, she was feared lest I'd fall into rough ways like, an' she kep' me in a good bit, an' there was a man as helped i' the book-binding she stopped, and then said half under her breath 'His name was Dan'el, Dan'el McGair, it was. 'Go on, Jen. 'He was a leän man and white to look at. He was very pious, and knowed lots o' things.
The sun was shining, the children were shouting, the women were gossiping at their doors, when the apothecary stopped at a low one-roomed cottage, the home of Daniel McGair. He opened the door with a key and went in, as though the house were empty. It was a plain bare room; there was no curtain on the window and the sun shone in.
Ye've found out this tale o' my life; there's none else as knows it, save mother lying dead, an' Johnnie I telled fur love's sake, an' him as lies palsied i' Yarm God A'mighty only knows, sir, what Dan'el McGair could tell on't but this I ask, sir, that ye'll keep all ye knows an' say nowt.
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