CHAPTER X.
THE HAND THAT TURNS BACK.
"He putteth down one, and setteth up another."—Ps. lxxv. 7.
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."—Rom. xii, 19.
"It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting."—Eccles. vii. 2.
"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."—Rom. xii. 21.
Keighley was then a pretty Yorkshire town surrounded by sylvan scenery, and with a few premonitions of the factory and furnace smoke that was in the future to make it rich. It was nearly dark when Burley reached it; but Jonas Shuttleworth was a famous man in Keighley, and his residence was easily found. It was one of a long row of small white cottages, and when Jonathan knocked with his hand upon the door, a strong, querulous voice called out, "If ta is Jonathan Burley, come in."
The two men had never seen each other before, and the elder one looked at his visitor
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