It was a fearful waking to him, and caused every nerve in his being to thrill with pain.

On the brink of a gulf he found himself standing, and as he gazed down into its fearful obscurity, he shuddered and grew sick.

And now, having taken the alarm, his thoughts became active in a new direction, and penetrated beneath surfaces which hitherto had blinded his eyes by their golden lustre.

Facts and statements which before had appeared favourable and coherent now presented irreconcilable discrepancies, and he wondered at the mental blindness which had prevented his seeing things in their present aspects.
It was not possible for a man of Mr.Markland's peculiar temperament and business experience to sit down idly, and, with folded hands, await the issue of this great venture.

Now that his fears were aroused, he could not stop short of a thorough examination of affairs, and that, too, at the chief point of operations, which lay thousands of miles distant.
Letters from Mr.Lyon awaited his return from New York.