On these occasions he always brought a clean record of what he had done during the week, which he read to Mr.
Belcher, and then passed into that gentleman's hands, to be filed away and preserved.

On every visit, too, he was made to feel that he was a slave.

As his self-respect rose from week to week, the coarse and brutal treatment of the proprietor was increased.

Mr.Belcher feared that the man was getting above his business, and that, as the time approached when he might need something very different from these harmless investigations, his instrument might become too fine for use.
Besides the ministry to his self-respect which his labors rendered, there was another influence upon Sam Yates that tended to confirm its effects.

He had in his investigations come into intimate contact with the results of all forms of vice.