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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: but keep very quiet, for misfortunes may arise at any instant;
moreover to-morrow my paying-out apparatus will be wanted should
all go well, and that will be another nervous operation. Fifteen
miles are safely in; but no one knows better than I do that nothing
is done till all is done.
'June 11.
'9 A.M. - We have reached the splice supposed to be faulty, and no
fault has been found. The two men learned in electricity, L- and
W-, squabble where the fault is.
'EVENING. - A weary day in a hot broiling sun; no air. After the
experiments, L- said the fault might be ten miles ahead: by that
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