Next morning Skelton travelled northward to Yarm.

After some difficulty he succeeded in discovering the paralytic whom he sought.

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.

The apothecary was a coarse good-natured fellow, one of that class of ignorant men upon whose brains the dregs of a refined agnosticism have settled down in the form of arrogant assumption.