So Harry Hatton's return to the home county and neighborhood was full of interest.

He was their favorite and their friend, and he had been long enough away to blot out any memory of his faults; and indeed a fault connected with horses calls forth from Yorkshiremen ready excuse and forgiveness.

As to the mill, few of its workers blamed him for hating it.

They hated it also and would have preferred some other out-door employment.

So Harry's return was far more interesting than the supply of cotton, and then England might do this and that and perhaps France might interfere.