I was fearful that my messenger might be at a loss, or that he might want assistance on some occasion or other.

I now judged that it would have been more prudent if two persons had been sent, who might have conferred with each other, and who might have divided, when they had reached Neath, and gone to different mines, to inquire for the witnesses.

These thoughts disturbed me.

Those, also, which had occurred when I first heard of the vexatious way in which things were situated, renewed themselves painfully to my mind.

My own obstinacy in resisting the advice of Mr.Burges, and the fear of injury to my own reputation, and to that of the cause I had undertaken, were again before my eyes.