He actually had a scheme for procuring the sum in question, and when he possessed confidence himself, it was rarely, indeed, that he failed to inspire it in others.

For the second time, the landlord of the _Gethin Castle_ found himself in doubt; he was staggered by the positiveness of the young man's assertions, and by the force and flow of his glowing words.

In spite of himself, he began once more to think that he might have been mistaken in condemning him as an impostor, after all; as Richard had said, Carew _was_ scarcely sane, and when excited by wrath, a downright madman.

His resolves, too, were as untrustworthy and fickle as the winds.

Trevethick felt tolerably convinced that the money would, at all events, be forthcoming; and the sum--large in itself--seemed the earnest of much more.