Enormous difficulties in regard to the testimony and the verifications were discussed; they were overcome.

Potts was ready for any amount of trouble; Mallard the same.

There was clearly a race.

There would consequently be a record.

Visits to the offices of those papers, perhaps half a day at the south end of London or on Westminster bridge, examining witnesses, corner shopmen, watermen, and the like, would or should satisfactorily establish the disputed point.
Fleetwood had his fun; insomuch that he laughed himself into a sentiment of humaneness toward the couple of donkeys and forgot his contempt of them.