The peculiar interest of the case he did not mention to any one.
Afterwards he went back to the neighbourhood by himself, and endeavoured, as quietly as possible, to find out what traces the man's past life had left upon the minds of his neighbours.

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.

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.