Many are not men in spite of _all that_. God be
with you, sir."
"And with you, Captain." Then they clasped hands and turned away, each
man where Duty called him.
CHAPTER II
THE PEOPLE OF THE STORY
Slowly, steadily, to and fro,
Swings our life in its weary way;
Now at its ebb, and now at its flow,
And the evening and morning make up the day.
Sorrow and happiness, peace and strife,
Fear and rejoicing its moments know;
Yet from the discords of such a life,
The clearest music of heaven may flow.
Duty led John Hatton to take the quickest road to Hatton-in-Elmete, a
small manufacturing town in a lovely district in Yorkshire. In Saxon
times it was covered with immense elm forests from which it was
originally called Elmete, but nearly a century ago the great family of
Hatton (being much reduced by the passage of the Reform Bill and their
private misfortunes) commenced cotton-spinning here, and their mills,
constantly increasing in size and importance, gave to the Saxon Elmete
the name of Hatton-in-Elmete.
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