The two inquiries were so germane that they helped him reciprocally.

No reports were needed till the next meeting of the Legislature, in the following January, and so the two commissions took enough evidence to swamp them.

Poor Ray was reduced almost to despair over the mass of "rubbish" as he called it, which he would subsequently have to put in order.
Between the two tasks, Peter's time was well-nigh used up.

It was especially drawn upon when the taking of evidence ceased and the drafting of the reports began.

Ray's notes proved hopeless, so Peter copied out his neatly, and let Ray have them, rather glad that irrelevant and useless evidence was thus omitted.