CHAPTER I

Like a great many of my fellow Southerners, I have a very little knowledge of the northern counties, and not much more acquaintance with their people—all the same, I had no doubt whatever that the man whom I found awaiting me in my office one morning was a Yorkshire man. There was a certain independence, a positive directness of vision, an atmosphere of something very like aggressive self-reliance about him that assured me he hailed from the broad-acred shire. He was the sort of man who looks you through and throug…